
Many EXTRA bags of good wheat repaid this man’s investment in new Hoffman Seed 
for all his acres! It happens on thousands of farms every year. 
FACTS on FALL SEEDS 
Properly Cleaned Seed Is Vital This Year 
The reason why any farmer buys 
seed instead of replanting his own 
wheat or barley is because he fig- 
ures it will pay him better. A few 
years ago, we set out to find defi- 
nitely whether the trouble we were 
taking to furnish good seed was 
worth it to the farmer. We asked 
several hundred farmers which paid 
them best; their own seed, or our 
seed. Ninety-five out of every hun- 
dred answers said “New Hoffman 
Seed.” 
At this year’s wheat prices, the 
farmer finds himself in the fortu- 
nate position of being able to get 
this better paying seed at a cost of 
less than 40c. an acre. (The arith- 
metic on the back of price list shows 
how.) 
However, there is a more urgent 
reason for buying new seed this fall. 
So many ’42 crops in some areas 
were very satisfactory in quantity, 
but so much of the wheat was not 
desirable for seed. 
Here at Hoffman we had to 
choose very carefully to get seed 
that we were sure would benefit our 
farmer friends next harvest. Every 
bit of this wheat and barley seed 
has now gone through the twelve 
stages of Hoffman cleaning. Ex- 
actly twelve times something has 
been taken away from that seed 
that would have meant a direct loss 
to the farmer who planted it. Small 
puny grains that would have pro- 
duced weak stalks and poor heads. 
Broken Kernels that might not have 
sprouted at all. Immature kernels, 
weak light grains—these elimina- 
tions are in addition to the chaff 
and dirt taken out by ordinary 
cleaning methods. 
Good seed must show good germi- 
nation. This year’s wheat, with or- 
dinary cleaning, just doesn’t have 
it. But this Hoffman twelve-stage 
process insures it. If you could see 
or make tests between the two, 
you'd understand why gains of 
eight, ten or more bushels per acre 
from this Hoffman seed are regu- 
larly reported. 
The greater than usual losses 
