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HENRY FIELD’S SEED SENSE FOR AUGUST, 1946—Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co., Shenandoah, Iowa 






There'll Be Real Money in Chickens 
Can’t remember when there has been more confusion about any one thing we 
grow than there has been this year on chickens. With meat and food of all kinds 
so short we stood in lines for it at the markets, gov’t continually discouraged 
growing poultry and eggs. 
No matter how you slice it, I can’t agree with such a policy. 
And I know how tough the feed situation has been, too. 
Maybe the situation warranted such talk in the East, or West or down South. 
But right here in the food states where my chicks are grown, it isn’t true. 
Imagine Iowa or Nebraska or Missouri or Illinois farmers not having enough 
feed for chickens—or some to spare for the neighbors in town! 
Well—I don’t run the government. Although sometimes I wish I could—just 
for a few days. 
One thing I’m sure of. It’s going to be profitable to grow chickens next season 
—whether you grow them to eat or sell, 



































Kids & Their Chicks 
“Dear Sir: I am sending you a picture 
of my 38 little daughters and some of the 
White Rocks I bought of you last year. 
Myrtle Lou is 10, Artie is 8, and Catherine 
is 6. Would like to see them in Seed 
Sense.’’—Mrs. Martha Brown, Willhoit, 
Missouri. 
Well, here they are. Send us some 
more pictures of your Henry Field chicks. 
H,. F, 
Get a Start on Berries 
Next to strawberries, the raspberries 
are the easiest fruit to grow in the garden, 
and they bear almost right away if you 
gain time by setting them out in the fall. 
Am listing three fine raspberries this fall, 
only the best of the lot. - 
You should set raspberries 3 ft. apart 
in the rows, and the rows 6 ft. apart. And 
it’s a good plan to mound the soil up 
around the plants to prevent heaving from 
winter freezes and thaws. You can take 
the dirt away in the spring and the plant 
is ready to go, way ahead of spring plant- 
ing. oe 
Husking your corn clean helps quick 
drying after it has been cribbed. 
Has What it Takes 
‘Dear Sir: Your Bug Dust has what it 
takes. Used it last year on cabbage worms 
and it is the first contact Killer that I ever 
used that did a thorough job. Two light 
dustings with the dust zun when the worms 
appeared gave me wormless cabbage, with 
no worry about arsenic poison being left 
in the leaves. I have been satisfied with 
Henry Field garden seeds for niany years.” 
—Paul F.. Foss, Igloo, South Dakota, 
Pies from a Bush 
Have another story here in Seed Sense 
on my bush cherries which furnish such 
wonderful fruit for pies and jel, and are 
beauties in the garden as well, so I 
won’t say much about them here. But 
want to make you a special offer. Here 
it is: 2 Improved Hansen Bush Cherries, 
1 Field’s Giant Red Fleshed Bush Cherry 
and 1 Compass Plum-Cherry, all for 
$2.59, postpaid. No. XC-10. 
Could Write Pages 
“Dear Henry: Last year was our first gar- 
den and our first Henry Field order and we 
really had wonderful luck. We cannot say 
enough about Early Searlet Globe radish. 
We had them as big as large apples or 
turnips and they were as sweet and crisp. 
We gave some to our friends and everyone 
was as amazed as we were. Our peas were 
extra wonderful and so was the cabbage 
and corn, ete. I could write pages on it. 
We live on the highway, so many people see 
our garden.”—George Pennekamp, Patosi, 
Wisconsin, 
Getting Ready 
to Order © 
‘Dear Mr. Field: 
My little daugh- 
ter, Hazel Naomi, 
looking your seed 
catalog over. I’ve 
only ordered from 
you one year but I 
find your seeds 
better than what I 
Really Spry 
“Dear Sir: Just a few limes to let you 
know I received my 200 Austra White pul- 
lets. They were all alive and real spry. 
Thanks a lot and I do think they were the 
liveliest bunch of chicks I have ever seen.”— 
Mrs. Clarence Coffin, Rising City, Nebraska, 
Most Fruit Can Be Set Now 
Although there are exceptions, like 
peaches and apricots, you can plant most 
fruit trees in the fall and gain 6 mos. 
over spring planting, The reason all peo- 
ple don’t plant in the fall is that they 
haven’t got into the habit. Seems like 
it takes spring to put us in the mood 
for planting. Considering all the things 
we have to do in spring, this is short- 
sighted. 








The Opening Song 
This picture of Carol Stewart was sent 
buy elsewhere. 
Enjoy Seed Sense 
very much.’’— 
Mrs. Wily Hop- 
kins, Birch Tree, 
Missouri. 


Field’s Every Year 
“Dear Mr. Field My two boys, Jackie 
and Junie, with a few of. the backyard 
chickens we got from you. They sure are 
nice and a real buy. We raise Field’s 
chickens every year.’’—Mrs. Walter W. 
McCall, Clardina, Iowa. 

in by her parents Mr. & Mrs. W. A. Stew- 
art, Rt. 3, Box 206, No. Little Rock, Ar- 
kansas. Carol is holding a class of some 
kind in front of a beautiful Butterfly Bush 
purchased from Henry Fields. She cer- 
tainly looks happy, and I guess she has a 
good reason for that big smile. Mr. & 
Mrs. Stewart say, ‘‘We have been planting 
your seeds for years and sure like them.” 
