
Seed Trade Buyers Guide 
<@] SILVER ANNIVERSARY~ 25th EDITION (>3 


VOLUME XXV FOR THE YEAR OF 1942 


WENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, with war clouds hanging low over 
most of Europe, SEED TrapE Buyers GumnE made its initial ap- 

pearance. It was largely an assemblage of government statistical 
information, including production and price comparisons, with a 
list showing sources of supply for certain seeds and allied lines. Though not 
large in size, it was tops as a medium of value to the trade, with the result 
that its growth has been consistent and vigorous year after year. 
Now, after a quarter century of service to seedsmen, SEED TRADE BUYERS 
GUIDE again sees war clouds hanging low—this time over most of the world. 
Many trades and industries have been disrupted to the point where manu- 
facture or production is frequently of greater importance than finding sales 
outlets. In some lines the time-honored laws of supply and demand are en- 
tirely disregarded. 
Unusual publications are required to cope with the unusual business con- 
ditions of times like these. It has been the desire of the publishers to present 
the trade, in this volume of SEED TRaDE Buyers GuIDE and in the semi-monthly 
SEED WoRLD, modernized business publications which give the desired informa- 
tion in the fewest number of words, or by table and pictures wherever possible. 
Suggestions tending to still further streamline SEED TrapE Buyers GUIDE 
will be gratefully accepted from our thousands of dealer subscribers. Our 
efforts, as publishers, are directed solely toward providing a more useful and 
a more readily accessible volume each year. 
To these same thousands of dealer subscribers we dedicate this Silver 
Anniversary Issue of SEED TRADE Buyrers GuIpE and hope that volumes to 
follow will continue to merit the friendship and support of two highly im- 
portant factors in horticulture—users of the book, and its advertisers. 


NATIONAL SEEDSMAN PUBLICATIONS 
J. M. ANDERSON, Publisher 
R. C. HELGESON, Editor H. B. OLSON, Business Manager 
211 W. WACKER DRIVE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 

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