Te the Friends of 
THE GARWOOD SEED COMPANY 
It was a pleasure for me to have so many of 
our customers come to Rocky Ford this past sum- 
mer. I enjoyed talking to you and showing you our 
crops, and the Arkansas Valley of Colorado. As I 
told some of you this year, I was mighty sorry that 
our weather had to be so “unusual” just when we 
wanted you to have a good impression of our won- 
derful valley. The weather was, like the small boy, 
acting up when visitors were around. Normally our 
growing conditions are ideal, so we hope you will 
come back next summer and see us with good crops. 
Our entire season went “hay-wire” this past 
year. We started out with a cold, wet, backward 
spring which delayed our planting. When we did 
get the seed in the ground much of it rotted. We 
had to do considerable replanting. From the latter 
part of June we had to continually fight insects, 
heavy rains, hailstorms and then an early frost came 
on us September 8th. We were about a month late 
in starting our harvesting. The result was that many seed fields were abandoned, other 
fields gave us but small yields of seed. Now that our stocks are in the warehouse, we 
find that we are going to be short on many items. This will mean that we will not have 
the seed left to fill many late orders. My advice is that you place your seed orders as 
early as possible, the seed can be shipped whenever you desire. Many of our large seed 
users ordered their seed when they were here in August. They saw our fields and or- 
dered their stocks from the individual fields. They liked our stocks and wanted to be 
sure of their seed supply for 1942 planting. Adverse weather conditions have affected 
most of the seed growing sections of the U.S. and you will find that many kinds of 
seeds will be hard to get at planting time. 

We have made our usual careful selections and have the same high quality, high 
germinating seed that we have always produced. The only difference is that we will 
not have our usual amount of seed to take care of your orders. Prices will, naturally, 
‘be higher on some items. Many of our boys are in training camps, along with your own 
boys, and this has made it harder to get our field work done. We have had to pay more 
money for our hand-cutting, threshing and other work. With much smaller yields per 
acre it has cost more per pound to harvest a field of seed. We have done our very best 
for you. Our seed is of the same high quality that we have always prided ourselves 
upon. Our methods have not, and will not, change. The same careful attention to every 
detail will be maintained regardless of the cost. The only thing that we cannot control, 
in our seed growing, is the weather conditions—as you well know in your own opera- 
tions. To put it very mildly, it was a “most unusual season” for seed growing. 
I hope that you will have a prosperous season in 1942 and that you will come to 
Rocky Ford next Summer and see our crops. 
Yours for Better Crops, 
jet buat 
Owner 
