VITAMIN VALUES 
A guide to the vitamin contents of garden vegetables with 
a comparison of VEGETABLES vs PILLS 
Are you looking for vitamin bargains? You'll find the best vitamin values 
in vegetables! Look at the chart below for a comparison of the vitamin 
content of a standard vitamin pill costing about two cents and the 
vitamins in one-half cup (3.5 oz.) servings of garden vegetables: 
Vitamins Minerals 
International and Sherman Grams Milli- 
Units grams 
A Bi Cc G Calcium Iron 
Average Vitamin Pill 1650 110 200 165 125 hye! 
Asparagus 700 70 700 40 .021 1.0 
Beans, Green 1000 295 300 40 .055 1.16 
Beets 35 —— 100 50 .028 0.85 
Beet greens 12000 — 1000 150 .094 3.24 
Broccoli 9000 37 1400 75 .140 1837, 
Brussels Sprouts 200 60 1500 —— .027 UGG 
Cabbage 100 25 1200 20 .046 0.43 
Carrots 2100 20 100 20 .045 0.64 
Cauliflower 30 50 1500 35 .022 0.94 
Celery, bleached 10 10 100 — 051 0.22 
Celery, green 1000 10 100 10 .078 0.62 
Chard 9000 — 750 30 .100 3.09 
Collards 7000 50 800 100 202 1.66 
Corn, White 50 45 200 — .004 0.27 
Corn, Yellow 500 45 200 20 .006 0.47 
Cucumber 20 us 200 8 .006 0.33 
Dandelion 12000 = 2000 6 .084 3.05 
Egg Plant 35 15 200 10 .006 0.25 
Endive (escarole) 15000 28 400 (40 .029 153 
Kale 20000 50 2500 200 181 2.54 
Lettuce, head 100 2S 250 15 .017 0.50 
Lettuce, loose-leafed 4000 25 250 75 .069 Wes} 
Lima Beans, green 500 UES 600 100 .028 2.40 
Mustard greens 13000 A5 2500 375 LA 0.50 
Onions — 25 2715 28 041 0.48 
Peas 1000 140 500 65 023 2.07 
Peppers 5000 10 2500 40 .012 0.40 
Potatoes, sweet 3500 30 400 30 .20 0.77 
Potatoes, white 30 40 250 15 .013 1.02 
Spinach 25000 40 1500 125 .78 2359 
Squash, summer 1000 LS — 5 18 0.35 
Squash, winter 4000 15 100 25 19 0.55 
Tomato 1000 25 450 iS) .007 0.140 
Turnip 20 12 600 12 .056 0.52 
FRUITS 
Apple 250 10 .007 0.36 75 15 
Apricot ‘ 100 17 65 7.60 4000 10 
Banana 400 30 .028 0.64 300 30 
Blackberry 140 — .017 0.90 150 15 
Cantaloupe 600 20 .016 0.39 300 20 
Cherry 200 — .019 0.40 200 15 
Grape 60 8 .019 0.70 30 15 
Grapefruit 85 20 .021 0.30 21 23 
Lemonjuice 900 10 .022 0.60 — 10 
Orange 900 5 .024 0.40 43 to 350 30 
Peach 200 20 .010 0.33 1000 10 
Pear 50 20 .015 0.32 10 1 
Pineapple 500 12 .008 0.37 90 25 
Plum 100 15 20 0.56 — rei) 
Raspberry 600 — .024 0.88 — 10 
Rhubarb 8 24 .004 0.56 100 8 
Strawberry 1000 1G) 3.0384 0.68 80 10 
Watermelon 150 10 .007 0.23 50 20 
VITAMIN A promotes growth, appetite, digestion, resistance to infection. 
Necessary for formation of teeth. 
VITAMIN Bi promotes growth, appetite and digestion. Essential for proper 
nerve function. 
VITAMIN C guards against scurvy. Required for normal tooth and bone 
formation and maintenance, and for proper healing of wounds. 
VITAMIN G promotes growth. Prevents lesions and certain abnormal changes 
in the eyes resulting in failing vision. 
All Prices Subject to Change Without Notice 
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Ibs., $3.75; 50 lbs., $6.00; 
Agricultural Chemicals 
_and Fertilizers 
A. A. Superphosphate. 18 per cent 
soluble and available phosphoric 
acid. 100 lbs., $2.50. 
Ashes, Unleached Hardwood. High in 
potash. In bags, per 100 lbs., $3.00. 
A. A. Market Garden Fertilizer, 4-12-4. 
For vegetables and small fruits 
where a good balance of the three 
plant foods is desired. A good, high- 
grade fertilizer to use where mod- 
erate applications of manure are 
occasionally made. 100 lbs. Price on 
application. 
Blood Tankage. 14 per cent. $9.00 per 
100 lbs. 
BOVUNG 
A Natural Organic Fertilizer 
It is the natural plant food for 
lawns, flowers, etc. It can be applied 
without fear of burning or harmful 
results. Price, $1.75 per bag of 50 lbs. 
Bone, Coarse or Cracked. Ground 
coarse for Grape borders or poultry. 
100 lbs. $6.00. Supply doubtful. 
Calcium Chloride. Dust layer and sur- 
face binder. 100 lbs. will cover 
nat 50 square yards. 100 lbs. 
4.00. 
Charcoal. Coarse and fine. 10 lbs. 50c, 
per 100 lbs. $4.00. 
ELECTRA “GOLD STAR” FERTILIZER 
General all around plant food. Feed- 
ing, forcing, finishing. High organic. 
It makes plants function properly. 25 
100 Ibs., 
$10.50. 
Humus. Finely ground and screened 
for renovating lawns, golf courses, 
flower beds, etc. 100 lbs. $2.00. 
Lime, Agricultural. An unusually pure 
calcium line, especially prepared 
for use on the soil. Per 100 lbs. 
$1.00; ton, $18.00. 
Milorganite. A well known and valu- 
able fertilizer for top dressing 
lawns. 25 lbs., $1.00; 50 lbs., $1.75; 
100 lbs.., $3.25. 
Muriate of Potash. 50 per cent actual 
potash. 100 lbs. $4.50. 
Nitrate of Soda (Reground). 10 lbs., 
79¢; 25 Ibs., $1.50; 50 Ibs., $2.50; 
100 lbs., $4.50. Supply doubttul. 
Pulverized Sheep and Goat Manure. 
A. A. C. brand This brand has no 
objectionable odor. It is pure natu- 
manure and the most nutritious food 
for plants, lawns, wherever a 
strong, luxuriant growth is needed. 

Pulverized Poultry Manure. 100 ibs. 
$3.50. 
Salt. Top-dressing for lawns and as- 
paragus beds. Price per bag about 
100 lbs. $2.25. 
Sulphate of Ammonia. $4.50 per 100 
Ibs. Supply doubtful. 
Shredded Cattle Manure. 100 lbs. 
$3.50. 
Special Ground Bone. An excellent 
material for use where gradual but 
long continued effects of nitrogen 
and phosphoric acid are desired, as 
under and around perennials, trees 
and shrubs, or before seeding to 
grass. 5 lbs. 40c; 10 lbs., 75c; 25 
Ibs., $1.50; 50 Ibs., $2.50; 100 lbs., 
$4.50. 
A. A. Potato and Vegetable Fertilizer, 
4-9-7. A fertilizer especially adapted 
to soils lacking nitrogen and for use 
with all root and other vegetable 
crops. 100 lbs. Price on application. 
A. A. Potato and Root Crop Fertilizer, 
4-10-10. Well adapted to poor or 
lightly manured soils — especially 
for Potatoes, Beets, and for many 
foliage crops, except Cabbage, 
which requires considerably more 
available phosphoric acid. 100 lbs. 
Price on application. 
Agrico for Potatoes and Vegetables, 
4-10-10. 100 lbs. Price on application. 
Agrico Special for Corn, 3-12-6. 100 
lbs. Price on application. 
A. A. Sure Crop Fertilizer, 3-12-6. 100 
lbs. Price on application. 
vIGTORY 
GARDEN 
FERTILIZER 

Victory Garden Fertilizer. 3-8-7. For all 
crops. Price on application. 

LOMA 
The Perfect Plant Food for Everything 
Green That Grows 
Price on application. 
ADCO 
For making artificial manure. Dry 
leaves mixed with Adco and kept 
moist, turn into excellent manure. So 
do flower stalks, cuttings, pea vines 
and almost any other kind of non- 
woody vegetable waste. Adco is a 
powder which, mixed with vegetable 
matter and kept moist, turns the lat- 
ter into real manure, but without odor, 
flies, etc. 
In 25-lb. bags (Making 14 ton of 
MONULS) Lee west eee Each $ 2.75 
In 150-lb. bags (Making 3 tons 
Of (manure)! —cnoee cae Each 13.50 
In 71/4-lb. package (trial 
$326) Gris tins cetoon ie See Each (ats 
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PLANTABBS 
Plantabbs, with Vitamin Bi, makes 
vastly stronger root growth. Excellent 
for garden flowers and vegetables, 
and all potted plants and flowers. In 
boxes of 30 tablets, 25c; 75 tablets, 
ee 200 tablets, $1.00; 1000 tablets, 
PEAT, LEAF MOLD, ETC. 
Peat Moss. Coarse and fine, per bale, 
$5.50. 
Silver Sand. For mixing with potting 
. soil, etc. Pk., 75c; bu., $225. 
Leaf Mold. Best quality. Bag $3.50. 
Moers Sphagnum. Bu., $1.50; bag, 
Moss, Dry Sphagnum. Bag, $1.50; 
small bale, $6.50; large bale, $10.00. 
Orchid Peat, or Fern Root. Best se- 
lected. Hand picked. Bu., $2.00; 
2 bu. bag, $3.50. 
