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HENRY FIELD’S SEED SENSE 
“FOR THE MAN BEHIND THE HOE” 
Published by Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co. 
Field No. 1 Building 
Henry Field, Editor 
Contributors 
“Alfalfa” John Nicolson (Seed) Helen Field Fischer (Flowers) 
Pate Simmons (Seed & Nursery) LeOna Nicolson (Nursery) 
Paul Wilkinson (Nursery) Irving Steurer (Garden Seed) 
Deane Schneider (Field Seed) —<& all my friends and customers 
Subscription Price—A Garden Seed, Field Seed 
or Nursery Order 
Plant or Don’t Eat! 
Remember last spring, I said plant a garden or go hungry? 
Maybe that was a little strong and maybe it wasn’t. Only time 
will tell. But it is true that this food situation is getting 
tighter and tighter every day in this country. 
Not only are you wise to plant and raise as much food as you 
possibly can to make sure you and your family have plenty of 
healthy fruits and vegetables when they need them, but you 
are doing a valuable war service at the same time. 
If you don’t grow your food, someone has to do it for you 
and that takes manpower. Someone has to bring it to you and 
that takes transportation. And both manpower and transporta- 
tion are getting scarce. What you grow yourself, saves your 
country’s manpower and also makes certain that your family 
will eat well. 
That’s one reason why fall planting is so important this 
year. Fall planted stuff has an EXTRA 6 MONTHS to GROW. 
And during that whole time, it grows. Nine times out of ten, 
it’s way ahead of spring planted stuff. 






So start making sure this fall of having plenty of food next 
spring by setting lots of rhubarb, asparagus, grapes, straw- 
berries, and fruit trees this fall. You’ll be glad you did. 
Free Gifts with Nursery and Bulb Orders 
As usual, I have something free for all of my customers who | 
order early and here’s the list you can choose from. Be sure 
to ask for them on your order as otherwise they might not get 
in and I want you to have them. 
Free with $2 Nsy. or Bulb order—2 Giant Darwin Tulips. 
Free with $3 Nsy. or Bulb order—The above or 3 Grape Hya- 
cinth bulbs. 
Free with $4 Nsy. or Bulb order—Choice of above or a Regal 
Lily free. 
Free With $5 Nsy. or Bulb order— You may choose any 2 of the | 
above items. 
Our Catalog Worth $3.00 
“Dear Mr. Field: I have always enjoyed your seed catalog 
as well as the Seed Sense, but this year’s catalog is not only a 
catalog. It is a garden Encyclopedia and a vegetable information 
bureau. Worth a lot more than a $3 book with a lot of scientific 
words and complicated instructions which no busy farmer’s 
wife has time or inclination to read. Pages 8 and 9 in your 
catalog are - worth more than their weight in gold to me. 
I have always liked gardening but am trying a few extra 
specials that I haven’t planted before.’’-——Mrs. Ernest Meyer, 
Latimer, Ia. 
Bulb Planting Directions 
Fall is the only time you can plant tulips, crocus, daffodils, 
narcissus and the like.. They spend the fall and winter making 
roots and then come up early in the spring. 
Set at depth and distance apart shown in the diagram here. 
You can either dig out a complete bed, or simply a small hole 
for each bulb. Some people put a little sand in each hole which 
is nice as it allows for drainage. Don’t allow air spaces about 
the bulb and pack the earth down firmly. If you wish, you can 
put a little fertilizer below each bulb for the roots to feed on. 
Do not let the bulb touch it. 
It’s a good idea to mulch with lawn rakings or straw or rot- 
ted manure. After blooming next spring allow the tops to die 
down na- 
turally and 
then either 
dig and 
leave for 
another 
season of 
bloom. 
et BS 

Shenandoah, lowa 
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HENRY FIELD'S SEED SENSE FOR SEPTEMBER, 1943—Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co., Shenandoah, Iowa 

A Recent Picture of “The Boss” 
I had Seed Sense all ready for the printer when some of the 
boys protested that I shouldn’t send it out the Way I had it 
because [I didn’t have a picture of myself in it. They said it 
wouldn’t be a Seed Sense without a picture of ‘‘the boss,” so 
they picked out the one they liked of some recent ones we took 
late this summer and told me to put it in. 
So here it is. It was taken down at our Ozark cabin in our 
flower garden. Most of our pictures, we take in the vegetable 
garden, but this\shows that we don’t forget flowers. Fact is, 
we raise just about as many flowers as vegetables. I believe 
in them. And the varieties I don’t grow, Mrs. Field sees to 
getting planted. So we have plenty of bloom as well as plenty 
to eat from our garden. 
You can see I’m feeling fit. Plenty of regular work at the 
seedhouse and plenty of good healthy work in the garden is 
about as good as anybody’s vitamin pills, I guess. 
Buy Your Corn Early This Year 
Good, high-germinating hybrid seed corn looks like it would 
be mighty scarce by spring. The cold, wet, late spring we had 
together with the chances of a cold wet fall don’t make corn 
prospects look too good. 
That’s why I’m urging you to BUY.HARLY and make sure 
you reserve your seed corn WHILE YOU CAN. To encourage 
you, I’m putting the price real low for the early buyer. Buy 
before the raise and save. Full details on pages 14 and 15, 
but here’s the price schedule summed up: 
PRICE NOW | Price Oct. 25 
$595 $650 
4.95 5.50 
650 | 63s 
5.50 5.95 
a ee 
5.50 5.95 
Gs 15. asa 
5.50 5.95 
7 | 73s 
6.50 6.95 
75 | go 
or Small Flats 
No. 100 
No. 90 6.95 7.50 
HHVSRE Vale Ye Ae 
Edge Drop 
Hill Drop 
or Small Flats 
If a child annoys you, quiet him by brushing his hair, is the 
latest advice. If this doesn’t work, use the other side of the 
brush on the other end of the child. 


MULE HYBRID 
BLENDS .sisx 
No. 135 
No. 129 
No. 116 

Edge Drop 
Hill Dro 
or Small Flats 
Edge Drop 
Hill Drop 
or Small Flats 
Edge Drop 
Hill Dro 
or Small Flats 
