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Believe It or Not! 
This Is a SOLDIER 
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Dear Gurney’s: This is Sergeant 
Spencer Chamberlin, somewhere 
in Australia, taken at the age of 1 
year in 1921 with a Gurney Kleck- 
ley Sweet watermelon. The Ser- 
geant has changed a lot since then, 
but not so the melon—they are the 
same big, long, sweet melons as 
ever. I liked your paper fine. Keep 
7em coming. I hope this wins some 
seeds for me.—pencer’s mother, 
— c: A. Chamberlin, Forestburg, 
S. Dak. 
Pol Up Plenty of Bulbs 
To Use As Gifts This Winter 
One of the most welcome but still in- 
expensive gifts you can give for Christ- 
mas or New Year’s or some other occa- 
sion this winter is a pot of bulbs just 
about ready to bloom. They’re easy and 
inexpensive and how the person who gets 
them will enjoy ‘them. 
Narcissus make the best indoor bloom- 
ing bulb. Use an inexpensive but fancy 
bowl for the ones you will give away or 
pot in an ordinary bowl or flower pot 
and wrap fancy paper around it when 
you give it. 
Usually 3 bulbs are placed together 
in a bowl. You can. force in water with 
just enough fancy pebbles to hold the 
bulb down or in dirt with most of the 
bulb covered. Let roots form in the dark 
and when formed bring into the light for 
bloom. Here’s a schedule of blooming 
dates so you will know when to start 
vour bulbs to get. bloom on a certain 

date. 
Plant Bloom 
Oct. 1 Dec. 5 
Oct. 15 Dec. 15 
Nov. I Dec. 25 
Nov. 15 Jan. 5 
Be sure to have some of your own 
ready to bloom at different times through 
the winter and plenty for gifts. You will 
be mighty glad you have them when the 
gift problems start rolling around Christ- 
mas, The entire gift will cost you about 
15¢e and a florist would ask you $1.50 to 
$2.00 for the same thing. 
Plenty of Bug Dust Now 
We had some trouble this spring get- 
ting all the ingredients we needed for 
Gurney’s famous Bug Dust, but now 
have a good supply on hand so send 
those orders on in. 
Remember, even though your garden- 
ing is over until next year, there are 
hundreds of uses for Bug Dust during 
the winter. It is especially valuable for 
use on houseplants to help keep them 
free of disease and pests, but is also use- 
ful to get mites on poultry, controlling 
ants that might have gotten in the house 
and as an insect spray when mixed with 
water. 
Also, there may be shortages again 
next spring and it then would be advis- 
able for you to have a good supply on 
hand now, It will keep well if kept away 
from heat and light, Price is still 40c 
per pound postpaid or 3 pounds for $1.00 
postpaid to you. 
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Put To Soak! 
When the boys get too dirty these 
days you can just peel off their 
clothes and ‘put them to soak.’ All of 
us here at the seedhouse got such a 
kick out of this picture we just had 
to put it in the magazine though it 
hasn’t much connection with garden- 
ing. Mr. George Magney of Detroit 
Lakes, Minn., didn’t say who these 
young men were. 




A Gurney 
tulip bufb—clean, 
plump, vigorous — GUARAN- 
TEED TO BLOOM. Will give 
you tulips for years to come. 
Boys! Make Your Mother 
Some Plant Labels For Gift 
Here’s a good idea for some of you 
boys (and girls too, for that matter) who 
are handy with tools. Make your mother 
some garden stakes for a Christmas gift 
or birthday present. They are something 
she will never have-enough of and they 
are easily made. 
You should use thin wood and the sides 
of some old orange crates (get from your 
grocer) are just about right. Cut the 
stakes about 1144 inches wide, and about 
9 inches long and put a nice point on 
them. If you want to be fancy, you can 
bevel the corners and maybe paint them, 
if you have time. 
Tie them up in niee bundles in fancy 
paper and watch your mother exclaim 
with delight. She can use them to mark 
newly set plants (so ‘you won’t pull them 
up when you wéed), to mark garden rows 
and to write on, if she wants to record 
some information about the plant. 
No Charge For Our 
Planting Magazine 
Some of you have asked about the cost 
of this planting magazine and some have 
offered to send in money for it, so we 
want to repeat there. IS NO CHARGE 
FOR GURNEY’S PLANTING MAGA- 
ZINE. : 
We will send it free, whenever printed, 
to all customers—so if you want a copy 
when printed, just send your nursery 
and seed orders to Gurney’s. We'll send 
it to you, even if you don’t buy from us, 
if you ask us to. ’ 
You see, it’s just home-made. We're 
seedsmen and nurserymen, not editors, 
so we'd be pretty presumptious to ask 
a subscription price for it. We aim to 
have our say, to pass on any good ideas 
you folks send in, to print pictures of 
your gardens and families, to print some 
jokes and generally have a good time 
with gardening and planting as our Main 
interest. : 
So if you enjoy it, say so by sending 
your orders in and you'll get your ccpies. 
P. S. We don’t promise to print it at 
any set time. We'll do it whenever our 
regular work gives us time. 
How To Get Rid Of 
Rats, Moles & Gophers 
Tf you're ‘bothered by rats, get some 
Gurney Rat Killer. If Moles or Gophers 
are ruining your lawn or garden, the 
answer is Gurney’s Mole Killer, Both 
sell for 50c box; 2 boxes for 90c post- 
paid. Both are non-poisonous to _ pets, 
livestock or poultry but SURE DEATH 
to rodents. Easy to use, they do the job 
to please you or your money back. 
All Dressed Up! 
“Enclosed is a snap of my little 
daughter, Margery Paula, which I! 
hope you can use in your Planting 
Magazine. She is out smelling the Gur- 
ney poppies. These poppies were the 
huge annual single and doubte kinds. I 
plant a lot of them each year. Your 
seeds are grand, especially Yankton 
Main Crop Peas which are more pro- 
ductive than any kind I’ve planted.” 
—A satisfied customer, Mrs. Paul 
Black, Grace City, N. Dak. , 

Gurney’s Tulips Are CHOICE BULBS 
GUARANTEED To Bloom 
We have searched the country over for the 
finest tulip bulbs we could find. Before the 
war, all tulip bulbs came from Holland but. 
since the war, most all bulbs planted in this 
country had to be grown here. 
We decided to buy from Dutch growers 
who had left Holland and started to grow 
bulbs in this country. They have the ‘know 
how’ and their bulbs are some of the finest 
that can be found. 
The variety list is limited. We can’t choose 
and pick from among hundreds of colors 
like formerly, but all bu?bs are the extra 
fine blooming size and are. unconditionally 
GUARANTEED TO BLOOM. 
All bulbs will bloom for years and years 
to come. See page 5. 
Used Gurney’s Seeds 
12 Years 
Dear Mr. Gurney: I received your 
Gurney’s Planting Magazine today by 
mail..I think it is a fine magazine for 
Gurney Gardeners. I like the general 
garden tips and article by Prof. N. E. 
Hansen. We always use Gurney’s seeds 
and think none are better. I sent for a 
$7.00 order of garden seed in Feb., so 
I have my supply of seeds now on hand. 
I have used your garden seeds since 
we were married (12 years) and always 
have a fine garden and more than. I 
can use—can all I can and give vege- 
tables away to those who don’t have 
them. Thanking you again for the de- 
pendable seeds and the little magazine. 
Please send me all the issues. A Gurney 
Customer. Mrs. Steve Gudmundson, Ivan- 
hoe, Minn., R. 2 Box. 


Gurney Seed Kid 
Who Did A Big Job Quick 
Dear Friends: Enclosed please find 
money for the seeds my daughter Mable 
sold. She is retaining $1 to buy war 
stamps. She is onty 8 years old and we 
live 7 miles from the nearest town and 
over a mile from the nearest neighbor. 
But she had all her seeds sold in less 
than a week as she wanted the prompt- 
mess prize.... 
Would like to pass on a few of the re- 
marks people made when approached 
with the Seed Kids collections. One wom- 
an said, “Gurney’s seeds? Why they are 
always good.” Another said, “The name 
Gurney is good enough for anybody.” 
‘Another didn’t even bother to see what 
all was in the package when she knew 
it was Gurney’s seeds. She just said, 
“Sure, Vill take one as Gurney’s seeds 
are always reliable. 
Just theught perhaps you would be 
pleased to know these things. I suppose 
though, you have heard them often be- 
fore. Just goes to show what happens 
when one earns and establishes a good 
name and lives up to it.—Mrs. I 
Sack, Judson, N. Dak. 
Gurney’s Indoor Flowering 
PLANT BALLS only {0c 
_ Since winter is when flowers bloom- 
ing indoors are so much more appre- 
ciated, we are making a special price 
of only 10c each; 3 for 25e on our 
Up ey, Plant balls. (Formerly 19c 
each.) . 
These balls are real fun. No muss 
or fuss or soil—just water makes them 
grow. Hach ball is made up of tested 
seeds, packed with a special growth 
stimulant and fertilizer in’ a ball of 
choice spagnum moss which, when wa- 
tered, will force wonderful vines and 
plants. You should have several of 
these blooming this winter, 
Choice of Trailing Vines, Nastur- 
tiums, Parsley or Lettuce. 
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| Michigan Experiment 
Dear Sir: I am sending you two prints of one of my large Red Raspberry 
fields. These plants were all bought from Gurney’s a long time ago, and so I 
want you to see for yourself how beautifut they were during the season of 1942, 
By all means, send out your garden-fruit growing bulletin as often as you 
can.—A. C. Hermanson, Thief River Falls, Minn. ; { 
Fred | 

Station’s Formul 2 
_— for Rabbit Paint 
Every fall, lots of inquiries come, tn 
here to Gurney’s wanting to know what 
to use to keep rabbits from eating bark 
from trees during the winter. We do 
not have a ready made preparation, but — 




we recommend the rabbit repellant for- nes 
mula developed by the Michigan Experi- — 
ment Station that, they found worked 
very well. . Bre ay 
Mix q pounds rosin (cheap grade will 
do) ina gallon of ethyl alcohol (1 part 
rosin to 1 part alcohol, by weight). Pul- . 
verize rosin, then add to alcohol in a 
metal container with a tight cover to 
prevent evaporation. Keep in @ warm 
room and shake occasionally to hurry 
dissolving. Usually is ready in 24 hours. 
KEEP AWAY FROM HEAT. . 
Paint trees. with mixture when dis-— 
solved, only in the fall when bark is ‘dry. 
One application lasts all winter. Apply- 
with cheap paint brush about 2 feet 
higher on tree than snow wil] come—as 
high as rabbits will generally reach. One 
gallon is enough for 150 two-year-old 
larger trees. Ky) : 
Mix only as much as you can use at 
one time, or, you mix more, keep cover 
of reserve stock on tight and do not 
pour, any you have left over from field | 
work into the reserve can as any mois- 
ture it has picked up will form a white 
precipitate which changes the paint’s 
consistency. Paint on trees will turn 
white in rain or snow, but that is all. 
right. 
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If you find peonies, i 
blooming, take up too much room in the 
border, try thinning out the leaves by 
using them in arrangements of other 
flowers. However, do not take too many 
leaves. Some should be left to make food 
for the -plant. 

Master Liquid Hog Medicine — 
Is Still Available — 
Despite general shortages. of some 
items, we can still supply Master Liquid 
Hog Medicine. You will find prices and 
descriptions on page 12. ¥ 
With hogs at prices they are, they are 
too valuable to take any risks on, and 
Master Liquid Hog Medicine is needed 
to help protect them against diseases 
like Necro, and diarrheas caused by Ne- 
cro that can be so costly when they start 
working on your herd.- . ; : 
To use Master Liquid Hog Medicine 
costs LESS THAN i6c PER PIG! Isn’t 
your herd worth this cheap protection? 
And remember an ounce of protection 
is worth a pound of cure. Keep feeding 
Master Liquid Hog Medicine to your 
hogs as a regular precaution. It will pay. 
Our Suggestions On 
Correct Peony Culture 
Peonies grow best in a deep, rich, mod- 
erately moist loam. The soil in the bed 
or the border should be dug deeply and ~ 
a quantity of well rotted stable manure 
worked into it. Peonies are heavy feeders 
and respond well to fertilizers that sup- 
ply organic matter as well as the re-_ 
quired chemical elements. Plants should 
be set in early fall.as they begin new 
growth at that time. When the plants 
are set, the roots should be placed with 
ek more than é to 3 inches over the 
rown or eye, Space your plants from 
2% to 3 feet apart. Keep them well eats 
tivated and free from weeds and they 
will repay you for the small amount of 
effort on your part. After the fall freezes, 
they may be covered with straw or other 
coarse materials to prevent winter heav- 
ing. When the soil thaws out in the 
spring, this winter covering should be re- 
moved from over the crown. nee 
See varieties on which we recommend. 
fall planting, pages 4 and 5. ves r S 
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