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

Required Reading for Farmers 

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I hate to a 
it, but even right here near home there are a few farmers, not 

many, who are badly neglecting their God-given soil. Just look at the rich black 
soil in the picture on the left and imagine how ‘“‘thin’”’ the soil must be up the slope. 
This is going on all over the country, when contour farming like you see on the 
right, would end it. 
Every farmer should read the story below. 
It tells of recom- 
mendations of U. S. Soil Conservation Service.—H.F. 
“Don’t Sell Yourself Down the River” 
In these times when the prices of farm 
produce are up and the demand is for 
more and more food, don’t forget that 
there is a limit to what your land will 
stand. Then there is a limit to what 
you and your farm equipment will be 
able to take care of. You had better 
farm so as to keep your soil on the farm 
for if you destroy the farm you have 
destroyed the very thing that we are 
fighting for. That is a good standard 
of living in a free country. ‘There are 
several things you can do to save your 
soil and make more money at the same 
time. Here are a few of them: 
Contour farm all your crops and you 
hold more moisture in your soil. Tests 
by .the College in Iowa show that con- 
touring corn increased the yield over 
seven bushel per acre. When the water 
don’t run off you. don’t have ditches to 
eross and it is easier on your machin- 
ery. Contour farming on the hills saves 
one ‘dollar for every ten dollars spent 
for fuel and repairs on machinery when 
farming up and down hill. 
Leave wide grass waterways so the 
water can drain off without cutting 
ditches. 
When we get too much rain if you 

“The Garden Alphabet’ 

is for Asparagus containing vitamins we 
need 
Beets which grow from small seed” 
Carrots, I prefer Chantenay 
Dixie Queen—it makes darkies 
gay 
Ezegplant nice to serve a guest 
Field who sells only the best 
Green stringless beans that 
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Industry in which all should en- 
gage , 
Jonathans they’re all the rage 
Kale which requires no wealth 
Lettuce conducive to health 
Melons which grow in a field 
Nitrogen which increases the yield 
Onions which many desire 
Peas which our bodies require 
Questions—Field answers them all 
Radish for summer and fall 
Squash it makes pies divine 
Tomato best fruit on a vine 
Unsightly, a garden untended 
Vigoro with the soil should be 
blended 
Work with good seeds its a. pleas- 
ure 
Profit we expect some to treasure 
Yield which Henry’s tips make 
succeed 
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don’t have grass, work the waterway in 
and seed grass on them—red top and 
timothy are the best grasses to use— 
some use brome too—where the soil is 
good and rich. 
Flow terraces, like the Soil Conserva- 
tion Service are building, are a big help 
in keeping your soil at home if they are 
properly put in. . Better see your county 
agent and he will tell you how to get 
in touch with the Soil Conservation boys 
if you want help. 
A lot of wet bottom fields can be 
drained so that you can raise crops if 
drainage ditches are plowed out and di- 
version ditches plowed to keep the hill 
water from coming down on the bottom 
fields. : ; 
Plant good seed and plenty of it. You 
can’t afford to take chances on poor 
seed now when every ear of corn and 
every mouth full of grain means so 
much to help back the attack. : 
Be sure you have enough legume hay 
for your livestock and there is a big de- 
mand for seed. : 
Farm what you can take good care of 
so that you can keep that good black 
topsoil at home. ~ 
Don’t sell yourself down the river. 
Out of Cultivators 
Please don’t send any more orders for 
cultivators, we’re out—have been for 
some time. We were like a lot of other 
people, allotted a percentage basis on our 
1941 order. Our entire shipment was 
sold in less than a week. : 
There is no chance for any more this 
spring, so please don’t send your order 
for a cultivator to me. I made a pest of 
myself with the Department of Agricul- 
ture, the Governor, The National Victory 
Garden Committee and everybody else I 
could think of, all of the answers add up 
about to this. ‘‘We can’t fly cultivators 
to Tokio.” : 
Likes Returned Order Blank 
Here is a typical letter from our good 
friend, Mrs. W. F. Cornwell, Clark Fork, 
Idaho: 
“I like your idea about returning the or- 
der blank with the order. It certainly saves 
confusion over other mail order companies. 
I have used Field’s seeds five years now and |. 
would not trade anywhere else. I have 
charge of a 4-H Victory Garden Club, and I 
| urge my members to plant the best, which 
means “Field’s” to me. We read and enjoy 
every Seed Sense.”—Mrs. W. T. Cornwell, 
Clark Fork, Ida, 
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“Best I Ever Raised’ 
“Dear Mr. Field: This is a picture of _ 
myself and the chickens I raised. They — 
are the nicest chickens I ever raised and _ 
am surely proud of them.’—Miss Ula 
Martin, Bothenburg, Nebr. 
Sacra 
Good Luck with Chickens _ 

“Dear Mr. Field. We have used Henry 
Field seeds for a number of years and ° 
like them very much. Picture is of our 
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83 year old granddaughter Alta Mae and ~~ 
a flock of Henry Field’s White Rock 
Chicks. They were about 4 months old 
when their picture was taken. 
very good luck with them too.”—Mrs. 
Edward Bousselot, Calamus, Iowa.  — 

Chicken in the Flowers 
“Dear Mr. Field: I am a little boy and — 
I cannot write a letter, so my grand- 
mother is writing for me. 
you a picture of myself and my Henry 
Field White Rock chicken. 
mother loves flowers and has lots of 
pretty ones, but my pas ats gets. into 
them. So in this picture my chicken 
broke her string I have tied on her leg 
and I got her out of the flowers. My 
nickname is ‘‘Lanny.’’—Robert L. Bar- 
tow, 3047 N. 31st, Kansas City, Kansas. 
We had | 
I am sending — 
My grand- — 
