
OSCAR H. WILL & CO., BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA 
work, our business has gradually expanded and in- 
creased, with many setbacks during hard times, 
drought periods and other troubles. Today we have 
three large warehouses, three large greenhouses, 
nearly two hundred acres in nursery stock, plants, 
seeds and Hybrid Corn, and various other small 
buildings of all sorts. Our force has increased to 
well over a hundred employees in the busy season 
with an all year staff of about fifty. 
Oscar Will conducted the business till 1917 when 
his son, George, who first started to work in 1900 
during vacations and became a regular member of 
the staff in 1906, took over the management. Much 
of the success of our business is due to a number 
of outstanding people, members of our staff who 
have been with us for periods of a dozen to twenty- 
five or more years. Without them there could be no 
successful business and we are deeply grateful to 
all of them. 
From his first arrival in Dakota, Oscar H. Will be- 
came a recognized figure in horticultural and agri- 
cultural affairs. He was a member of the first State 
Fair Board and in 1887 gave a-paper at a Huron 
Meeting of the Dakota Horticultural Society on 
“Forestry in the Northern part of Dakota Territory.” 
He became deeply interested in the question of earli- 
ness and hardiness and worked along those lines 
with plants of all kinds, a work which our firm still 
continues. He has received much credit for his work 
with Corn and we have entertained at Bismarck 
through many years a number of the distinguished 
authorities on Corn both from this country and Euro-- 
pean countries. 
In view of all of these facts and the business with which our 
customers have favored us, as well as of the large amount of 
advice for which we are constantly called upon, we feel that we 
have made a place for ourselves in these Northern Plains and 
that our 60th Catalog offered herewith represents 60 years of 
i erenees useful service to agriculture and horticulture. 


m ft q We hope that you will like our new book and we can assure 
AG _ --you that the new things which we are offering are well up to ~ 
Fe : ©, the standard of our past introductions. : 
Ns OscAR H.WILL & CO. ww. It behooves us all to put in a good garden, and to produce and 
store from that Victory Garden just as much as possible. That 
applies to Fruits as well as Vegetables. And so let us all pull 
in our belts and settle down together to the expenditure of every 
last ounce of our energy in the production of materials needed 
to insure Victory complete for our own democratic way of life. 

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