
Seed Trade Buyers Guide 
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VOLUME XXVI 
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R. C. HELGESON, Editor 
BUYERS GUIDE 

fs hy) food and food crop seeds heavier than ever before, seedsmen this 
: ITH most of the world still at war, and the consequent demand for 
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year occupy an extremely important position. A large percentage 
of the seed we produce is being sent, through Government Lend- 
Lease channels, to our Allied Nations. Every available pound, other than that 
exported, is expected to be spoken for by our own millions of Farmers, Home 
and War Gardeners, Truck Growers and Food Processors. 
It is confidently expected that when peace returns seedsmen will be con- 
fronted with still greater demands if the hungry populations of former enemy 
and invaded countries are to be nourished. United States producers and 
wholesalers of vegetable, field and flower seeds, the grasses, bulbs and roots 
are approaching, therefore, the busiest and most difficult years in seed trade 
history. 
The retail, mail-order and packet seed groups are today functioning smoothly 
under the severe handicaps of labor shortage, necessary rationing of many 
equipment items, and the complete discontinuance of certain allied lines, for- 
merly very profitable. 
All of these individual groups of seedsmen are today ably carrying on under 
war conditions, and in addition are charting their courses for the post-war 
period, a time which all hope is not far distant. To these competent and patri- 
otic horticultural leaders we dedicate the 1943 SEED TrapE BuyErS GUIDE, 
doing so in the hope that its contents will prove of value during these trying 
times. 
NATIONAL SEEDSMAN PUBLICATIONS 
J. M. ANDERSON, Publisher 
211 W. WACKER DRIVE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 
FOR THE YEAR OF 1943 
H. B. OLSON, Business Manager 
