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nt you to send me one of your regular catalogs. [ama 
spaper publisher and town gardener, and for many years I 
ave been delighted with the dependable quality of seeds ob- 
ned from Henry Field. I will want quite a batch of accli- 
ted seed this spring and will send an order soon after re- 
wing a catalog and—I hope—another copy of Seed Sense. 
“After trying every known kind of tomatoes, I have settled 
Red Head. I know it is the most dependable tomato, best 
wored (with minimum of acid) and the right amount of 
foliage to protect the fruit from sunburn. From not over 3 doz. 
' ants last year, Mrs. Croft canned many bushels of Henry 
id’s blushing Red Heads—and the quality cannot be sur- 
sed. I have been a tomato fancier for nearly 40 years.”— 
Sincerely, F, J. Croft, Chamberlain, S. D. 
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______Learned to Garden from Our Catalog 
“Mr. Henry Field: I have been ordering seed from Field’s 
or 25 years and did not know one thing about gardening when 
Started but learned from your seed catalog. When I get 
_ Field’s seed, I always have a good garden. I put out the Bell- 
mar strawberries 2 years ago last spring. Last spring off of 
_ those 100 plants, I picked 55 gal. (220 qts. H.F.) and, oh, 
' how good! Canned 35 qts. and they were fine. Have a nice 
orchard started and my grapes are fine, too. And do we live at 
home out of fruit jars. Always put up for. years ahead.’’—Mrs. 
GH. White, McCurtain, Okla. 
Bx -Another Red Head Booster 
_ “Dear friend Field: Glad to get your catalog, just in time. 
_ Now let me say a few words in favor of your wonderful seeds. 
_ Thave been planting them for about 30 years, and I have found 
none to equal them. I must praise your Red Head tomatoes. 
About 30 years ago I paid you $64 a pound for them. Of 
' course, my neighbors laughed at me for paying so much for 
them, but when I had harvested them and had counted up my 
returns, I found that they had multiplied 400 times their seed 
price. We are always glad to get your Seed Sense and to read 
_ about your increase in family. Well, we don’t just now have 4 
- generations in our family—only three, but I hope to reach the 
aes some day. Your everlasting friend—A.J. Blevins, Keene, 
 #, kexas.” 
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; Likes Information in Catalog 
“Dear Mr. Field: Just received a copy of your catalog this A.M. 
It's really wonderful. If a person couldn’t raise a garden or chickens, 
ctc., after all the information you give in this catalog, they might as 
well join the Army and help that way. You really give the public help 
on gardening and I enjoy every bit of it. Thanks a million for sending 
_ meacopy. Will send names of friends I would like to have a copy.” 
—Mrs. W. J. Eberline, Glen Ellyn, II. 
. Likes Seed—Sends Sketch 
Dears Sirs: Our garden is just a small one, but the seeds we 
ordered from you last year really brought results, especially 
the corn. 
The attached sketch indicates the enthusiasm with which we 
partook of the luscious kernels. 
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D’S ta ad SENSE FOR MARCH, 1943—Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co., 

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Over 11,000 Qts. from 1 Field @arden! 
Here’s a deal I'll bet some of you folks interested in schools 
will get some ideas from. Down in Atchison county, Mo., last 
year, the folks got together and put in a big 23-acre garden. 
(Of course, they planted Henry Field seeds.) The farmers did 
the plowing, the schools put up some money and the WPA fur-. 
nished help to do the canning. Then in the fall and winter, 
they served hot lunches at the school from the stock of stuff 
they had canned in the summer. Here’s a partial list of some 
of the things they raised from our seed and put up: 
Green beans ...... 3,000 qts. Carrots .......... 1,400 qts 
Tomatoes.) 3,000) gts. ) (Corn: 3 245-0 een 1,500 qts. 
Butter beans ...... 250 gts. Spinach - > ie 1,500 qts. 
PCAS Teach eee ae 250 gts... Kraut... series 250 gal. 
Irish potatoes 100 bu. Grapes. {Gl eed e 400 qts 
Sweet potatoes 75 bu. Tarnips ae care. se 100 bu. 
The picture shows a part of the canned stuff and the inset is 
Mr. Carson, the foreman of the project with one Henry Field 
cabbage over 6 lbs. ‘If you folks are interested in more details 
to work this out at your own school you can write one of the 
members of the committee in charge: Hither Jim Templeton, 
Tarkio, Mo., president of school board who brought us these 
pictures; or Vernon Jelly, Co. Agent, Rockport, Mo.; or Halley 
Ford, Fairfax, Mo., also on the committee in charge, 
Likes Seed Sense 
‘Dear Mr. Field: Just received my Seed Sense and certainly 
enjoy it a lot. The only trouble is that I have 14 brothers and 
1 sister, then mother and father, and we all want to read it first. 
I bought my garden seeds from you and think I have one of the 
nicest gardens in the state of Nebraska. I have canned over 
1200 quarts of vegetables, etc., out of it.”—Miss Evelyn Chris- 
tensen, Fremont, Nebr. 
Grow a Garden or Starve—(Continued from page 4) 
than one year. Everbearing strawberries will bear the first 
year (if you have rich soil and plenty. of moisture), but most 
fruits don’t bear till the next year, and some not till the third 
year—but you’ll be needing food for a good many years and 
you may just as well get set for it. On a small garden you 
ean have all the strawberries you want, by the second year, 
also grapes, raspberries, blackberries, currants, bush cherries, 
ete. And tree fruits by the third year, such as cherries, plums, 
peaches, and some apples. No trouble at all, and at not much 
cost for the plants or trees. 
Better grow your own fruit—Commercial fruits will be prac- 
tically off the market by another year and if you don’t grow 
them yourself you won’t have them. They’re better anyway 
than any you can buy. 
Now then, will you work or starve?—Take your choice. 
It’s up to you. As the boys say, “It’s your funeral, not mine.”’ 
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I do not care to “fool” any man. When he discovers I have 
fooled him, he will do me more harm than my cunning did me 
good.—Ed. Howe. 
