RUDY-PATRICK SEED COMPANY 
Bap SNe NINTH AND SANTA FE STS. WHOLESALE SEED 
Roy A. Edwards, President 
Ross M. Eldridge, Vice-President KANSAS CITY, MO. REFINERS, GROWERS 
Vernon F. Rudy, Vice-President 
Wilbur C. Hoover, Treasurer AND EXPORTERS 
C. A. Patrick, Secretary 

Royal Brand Seeds Real Producers 
HIS CATALOGUE is intended as a complete reference book on the best varieties of 
farm and garden seeds. We do not conduct a mail order business direct with consumers. 
Our seeds are sold by thousands of live, progressive merchants and jobbers throughout 
the country. This patronage over a period of many years is the result of the dependability, 
hardiness and productiveness of our high grade selected seeds. Our seeds are grown in those 
sections of production which our long experience has shown to reach their fullest develop- 
ment as to type and strain. Likewise, our seeds are selected as to their adaptation to the 
sections in which we sell. To use cheaper and unknown seeds is to risk poor crops and un- 
satisfactory stands. 
We maintain a complete laboratory for analyzing and testing the seeds we send out, 
thus insuring tested stock at no increased cost. 
Our organization, developed through a third of a century of growth, is composed of men 
of ripe experience, trained in the technical demands of this exacting business, whose life 
work is dedicated to the promotion of better seeds and larger crops. In addition to the 
executives, who guide the policy of this business, is a large force of capable office, plant and 
field workers, seed analysts, cleaning and refining experts, field buyers and inspectors, feed 
millers, credit men, traffic men, etc. 
A very few communities raise sufficient seeds for their own consumption. Even when 
some farm seeds are produced in a particular section, they may not be fit for seeding. They 
need to be analyzed in the laboratory for noxious weeds, to come under the eye of the 
experienced cleaner. Home-grown vegetable seeds are not as a rule successful as they are 
apt to be mixed, hybridized, and often of doubtful germination. Modern scientific methods in 
large scale breeding and development of vegetable seeds have superseded the advisability of 
saving home-grown seeds as in our grandfather’s day. Why experiment when the services of 
a large concern are at your service? Any slight increase in price over home-grown or cheaper 
seeds is more than offset in the increased results per acre and larger yield in bushels and 
tons. 
Then, too, our machinery and equipment is the most improved and modern. Our seeds 
are refined by new processes, special screens, air blasts, gravity separators, etc. All perform 
their minute operation, almost with human touch, and the many thousands of farmers and 
gardeners who intrust their seed orders to the merchants handling our seeds, reap the benefit. 
When the season for planting is on, large stocks must be quickly available. Our orders 
are usually shipped the same day they are received. 
REAL SERVICE, not only in preparing seeds, but in getting them to the consumer, as 
needed, is our slogan. 
The reliance on the reputation and responsibility of seedsmen is more important than 
other vendors of goods and services as they deal with the life germ of the seed in the eternal 
cycle of plant production. 
As crops are subject to the human element in sowing and reaping; governed by soil and 
seasons and the divine chemistry of nature, there can be no guarantee of results by anyone 
in the cycle of production. It is, therefore, sound sense to rely on the personnel, laboratory 
equipment and reputation of a large seed house as Rudy-Patrick in order to safeguard as much 
as human experience and resources may permit. In common with other seedsmen we are 
forced to follow the nature of our business in respect to non-warranty of seeds and all 
goods are sold under the usual seedsmen’s non-warranty disclaimer. 
The Rudy-Patrick Seed Company gives no warranty, express or implied, as to the productiveness 
of any seeds or bulbs it sells and will not be in any way responsible for the crop. Our liability, in all 
instances, is limited to the purchase price of the seed. 
RUDY-PATRICK SEED CO. 

CONSTABLE-HURD PRINTING CO.. KANSAS CITY. MO. 
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