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2 HENRY FIELD’S SEED SENSE FOR MARCH, 1945—Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co., Shenandoah, Iowa 

How Much Will a Small 
Home Garden Produce? 

About $200 and 6,000 points just at 
a rough estimate, I’d say. 
Of course, it depends some on the 
size of the garden and the soil and the 
weather and the ‘‘workability”’ of the 
gardener, but on the whole I would say 
these figures are a pretty fair estimate. 
And then besides, you can add about 
a million dollars for the better health 
and better temper and steadier nerves 
that you get out of it, but I’m not 
counting that. 
I realize that “‘points’? and rationing: 
are a sore point with most of us, but 
we’ve got ’em and got to live with ’em, 
so they must be reckoned with. And 
my idea is to just ignore them, and de- 
tour them, and laugh at them, by 
growing the stuff yourself. Then you 
can be independent. 
And there’s nothing in this world 
quite so satisfying as being independ- 
ent. It’s what has made America the 
great nation it is. And if°or when we 
lose the feeling of independence, and 
depend on some bureaucrat or someone 
else to dole out ‘‘points” to us in order 
that we may live—why then we just as 
well move over and let some more 
virile race have our place. 
But to get back to that garden— 
You can achieve a large measure of 
food independence on a surprisingly 
small plot of ground—and without any 
more work than enough to keep you 
feeling fit. ‘ 
Here near the Seedhouse I have a 
typical small garden about 50x75 feet 
or less than 149 of an acre, and I spend 
a little spare time there, maybe an 
average of a half hour a day. 
Last summer we fed three or four 
families out of there all summer, and 
there must have been at least the 

Pride and Joy 
“Dear Henry: These onions were from 
onion plants. They are 13 in. in circum- 
ference, and they all ran as big. Onions 
are one thing that. do not make much of a 
showing in our country, so believe me 
they were the pride and joy of my garden- 
ing life. Everyone raved about them and 
could hardly believe I grew them. Things 
you sell certainly fit our climate and 
ground.”——W. C. Garden, Wellston, Michi- 
gan. 
I never had a man whisper anything te 
me that was worth listening to, 
° $0. 
equivalent of 600 No. 2 cans of vege- 
tables canned out of it. (Tomatoes, 
beans, corn, limas, cabbage, peas, beets, 
carrots, ketchup and so on, everything 
you can think of.) Figure this canned 
stuff at low price of 15c and 10 points 
and see what you get. 
For one thing, it’s about ten times 
the amount of one full year’s allowance 
of blue points, and enough cow feed 
and pig feed and chicken feed to help 
out a lot on the red points. 
And a world of healthful food and- 
enjoyable outdoor exercise besides. 
And a lot of money saved on grocery 
bills, money that can be put to good 
use buying an extra war bond every 
month. In fact, the grocery money 
saved in just that little garden could 
easily buy a $25.00 war bond every 
month for the year. 
And the only cash outlay for a gar- 
den like that would be about three or 
four dollars worth of garden seeds and 
plants and maybe a hoe and rake un- 
less you’ve already got one or can bor- 
row one. 
Pretty good investment, isn’t it? Do 
you know of anything better? I don’t. 
Well, what are you going to do 
about it? Are you going to just sit 
around all summer and let the rest of 
the community feed you? (Or maybe 
burn up gasoline and energy running 
around to play golf or attend clubs or. 
parties or races to kill time?) Or will 
you show your good sense and good 
citizenship by getting a piece of ground ~ 
and grabbing a rake and hoe and pull 
your share of the load? : 
It’s up to you. Not much more I can 
say to you. I’ve had my say and I hope 
some of it has soaked in. ‘ 
NI A) cies 
Fuzzless-Berta 
Thanks for all your orders on Fuzzless- 
Berta, 
peach that has absolutely no fuzz, and is 
one of the finest quality fruits anywhere. } 
I had so many orders last year I couldn’t 
possibly fill all of them. Had to hold them 
over until this spring. Now the.orders 
are rolling in again. Hope I’H be able to 
fill all of them this year, but don’t think 
Not in all sizes. 
Fuzzless-Berta is still amazing fruit 
growers over the entire country, even a 
year after its introduction. It’s so new 
and so different people can hardly believe 
the statements about it. Besides being 
fuzzless, it is 2 weeks earlier than Hl- 
berta, extremely hardy, small pitted and 
early to bear. What more could you ask 
in a peach. Hope you are one of the lucky 
ones to get a tree this year. 
Cultivators—A Headache 
| SE en SSR TP SET a OO Se ee 
I know I listed those fine High Wheel 
Cultivators in the big Spring Catalog. 
Wish I hadn’t. Not that I don’t want you 
to have them. 
them for you. But they just can’t be had. 
I thought the gov’t would release enough 
steel to make them, but it ‘didn’t work out 
that way. Of course I had a few. Sent 
them out on the early orders. Now there 
aren’t any left, and I don’t expect a sup- 
ply in time for spring. Maybe next year. 
I hope so. 
the amazing new Henry Field 
I’d do anything to get 
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Bushels from Packet 
Gale Loseke, Richland, Nebr., says he 
grew ‘several bushels’? of carrots lke 
these from a packet of H. F. Oxhart Car- 
rot. “Some weighed 116 Ibs. and meas- 
ured 13 inches around,” he says. That’s. 
a lot of point free food from a nickel 
packet of seéd. 
many bushels he got. 
Seeds That Yield © 
I_ always plant Henry Field’s seeds 
Known far and wide by their deeds. 
If you want a big yield 
____ Plant the seeds sold by Field, 
Use your hoe and keep out the weeds, 
Let the rain and the sun lend their aid. 
By fall your harvest is made. | 
Heaps of vegetables to store : 
No wolf at your door : : 
For your labor youw’ll feel very well paid. 
So always buy seeds that will yield. 
They’re sold every year by H. Field. 
Raise a erop that is “Tops.” 
Let’s have no more “Flops,” : 
Remember that name—Henry ring ; 
(Mrs. S., at Orient, Iowa) 
Flower Seed Scarce 
SRS eS ¢ d 
Seems like everything is scarce these — 
days. Hate to keep on harping on it. I 
know it’s a disagreeable subject, but I feel 
| like I wouldn’t be doing my customers 
justice if I don’t keep them informed. Now 
it’s flower seed. And getting worse by 
the minute. Gov’t has ruled that only 
25% of a normal acreage is allowable 
during the war—rest goes for food. Am 
not kicking. No one should. But it keeps 
me humpin’ to keep the flower seed bins 
full. 
are planning to grow flowers this summer, 
and you should, better get your order in 
early. Can’t promise a thing a month 
from now. : 
Likes Sugar Lumps 
“I tell you, Henry, your Sugar Lumps are 
sure good eating, and all our garden seed 
we got from you last spring done fine.”— 
Milton Tresidder, Galena, Tilinois. ay le 
22 Yearsa Customer 
“Dear Henry: I am an old man, 76 last 
June, I take care of a big garden. Have 
lived here 22 yrs. and used your seeds all 
that time. Grow lots of your Dunlap and 
Mastodon strawberries. 
12:30 letterbasket program on KENE.”— 
A. D. Darrow, Otho, Iowa. ae 
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