4 HENRY FIELD’S SEED SENSE FOR SEPTEMBER, 1944—Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co., Shenandoah, 

HENRY FIELD’S SEED SENSE 
“KOR THE MAN BEHIND THE HOR” 
Published by Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co. 
Field No. 1 Building Shenandoah, Iowa 
Henry Field, Editor 
Contributors 
cAlfalfa” John Nicolson (Seed) Helen Field Fischer (Flowers) 
Pate Simmons (Seed & Nursery) LeOna Nicolson (Nursery) 
Paul Wilkinson (Nursery) Irving Steurer (Garden Seed) 
Deane Schneider (Field Seed) —& all my friends and customers 
Subscription Price—A Garden Seed, Field Seed 
or Nursery Order 

Seed Sense for Customers Only 
If there’s anything I don’t like to do it’s to lose contact with 
an old customer. Generally I keep sending copies of Seed Sense 
and the big Spring Catalog as long as I can afford to. Even 
those who haven’t ordered in three or four years have been 
getting copies. 
But that has to change now. The government says I can 
only have 75 percent as much paper as before. This means that 
a lot of old customers who haven’t ordered recently won’t get 
“a Spring Catalog and the Seed Senses that follow. Sorry, but it 
ean’t be helped. Remember a subscription to Seed Sense and 
that Catalog is an order. So if you order now you’ll be sure of 
receiving both regularly. 
Why Fall Planting 
Every year I talk more about fall planting, and there is a 
lot of good reasons, too. I just want to give you a few of them. 
Tf for no other reason, fall planting is a wise thing because we 
all -have-so much to do in the spring that it is just almost im- 
possible to get around to everything. By getting your stuff set 
this fall you have that out of the way for next spring when you 
have all of your other planting to do. : 
Fall planting gives the plants a head start over stuff set in 
the spring. Of course, everything can’t be planted in the fall, 
but we list only those things which do well set in the fall. Re- 
member that the roots of plants grow continually unless the 
ground is frozen soldily around them. In other words, you are 
getting a root growth in the fall and also very early in the 
spring, the first thing when the frost comes out of the ground. 
Tt means a lot more growth for you the first year. Hvery year 
IT do more fall planting on my place in Missouri, and every year 
I like it better. , 
Another particularly good reason for planting this year, is 
that you are going to save money. The way things look with 
the shortage of nursery stock, and the scarcity of help, prices 
will be higher in the spring wherever you may buy, so why not 
order this fall and get the head start on your plants—get the 
work out of the way, and save yourself some money. 
Workin’ Hard on ’45 Catalog 
It’s been terrible hot in Shenandoah the last few weeks, but 
the seedhouse has been humming with activity in spite of it. 
We’re working on the big 1945 Spring Catalog. What with 
paper shortage, skilled printers being taken into the Services, 
and some short seed items (especially Hybrid) it’s been a 
tougher job than usual. But I’m glad to say the new catalog 
will be the best yet, and I hope you'll like it, 
It will have more color, more new varieties, more pictures, 
more news, more garden advice than ever. But as usual it 
will list and tell only about things that will really grow. Prices 
will be right, too. You can always depend on H. F. seeds and 
prices. I won’t have it any other way, even if I have to lose 
money on some items. 
The new full-color cover is going to be more beautiful than 
ever. It will show you a new summer heading lettuce, and 
brand new tomato, and—there I go talking about planting next 
spring, when I should be telling about-those Tulips to put mm 
this fall, and how short the Hybrid erop is. Guess you'll just 
have to wait until December or so until the printers finish their 
job—same as I will. 
Send in Your Pictures 
I still want your pictures, and I still like to get letters from 
all you customers. Mine is a friendly business, and the more 
I get to know my customers, the better I can help out with 
their garden and farm problems. And I still pay 50c for all 
pictures used and double, or a dollar, for pictures on Hybrid. 
Tt know film is scarce and you aren’t taking as many pictures 
as usual, but send in what you have, and if you haven’t any 
write a letter instead. 




That’s me on the right. 1 
the Ozarks, although it’s hard to recognize me with the beard. 
Sometimes I let it grow for a week at a time—especially when 
Mrs. Field took the picture down in 
I’m extra busy in the garden. Jim on the left. The reason he 
looks so queer is because he was calling the dog just when the 
picture was snapped. In the center is Callie Russell next to Jim 
and his brother. I’ve forgotten his name, but he’s the same age- 
as Iam, 72, and has lived all his years near my place in Missouri. 
They came over to truck some cattle away for us, and we took 
off a little time to visit. ‘Then Mrs, Field made dinner for us all. 

Ship Nursery at Right Time 
Some of you folks write in wondering when your order is go- 
ing to come. Probably you received part. of your order, and just 
think we have forgotten the rest of it. We haven’t. 
Sometimes of course we make mistakes, but not often. What 
happens is this. Soon as we get your order, we send it around 
to the various departments of the seedhouse. Hybrid orders go 
one place, field seeds another, and then to nursery or someplace 
else. In the case of nursery a lot of items should be planted at 
a certain time, and only then. Others, like Tulips, can be 
planted anytime in the fall. So, we ship out to you the same 
day we receive your order, everything that we can. But we-hold 
up the things that should be planted late, or aren’t ready for 
shipment until late. So don’t worry about your orders. 'They’ll 
get to you in plenty of time and at the RIGHT time. Just get 
them in early, so we can work on them and have the stock ready 
to ship when you should have it. 

15 Gardeners in One Family 
The Dave Swenson family of Wessington Springs, S. D., all 
15 of them, are enthusiastic H. F. Gardeners. The oldest girl 
was away at school and the youngest was sick when this pic- 
ture was taken, “I think we have a pretty husky family,” says 
Mrs, Swenson. : 
I think so, too. And what a garden crew this would make. 
I hope Mrs. Swenson will tell us some more about the family 
gardening and canning program, so it can be printed in the 
_ Spring Seed Sense, 

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