6 HENRY FIELD’S SEED SENSE FOR FALL, 

HENRY FIELD’S SEED SENSE 
“FOR THE MAN BEHIND THE HOE” 
Published by Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co. 
Field No. 1 Building Shenandoah, Iowa 
Henry Field, Editor 
Contributors 
“Alfalfa” John Nicolson (Seed) Helen Field Fischer (Flowers) 
Pate Simmons (Seed & Nursery) LeOna Nicolson (Nursery) 
Geo. Rose (Nursery) Irving Steurer (Garden Seed) 
Deane Schneider (Field Seed) —& all my friends and customers 
Subscription Price—A Garden Seed, Field Seed 
or Nursery Order 
Nursery Gifts from Henry Fields 
Am always getting orders saying ‘‘send these roses or glad 
bulbs or tulips to Aunt Mary for her birthday, and please 
write her a letter, telling where they came from.’’ Of course, 
I’m always glad to do it. But it makes me feel like there’s 
a service you customers want, that I’m not doing right by. 
Have been thinking I should have some gift orders in the 
catalog or Seed Sense, along with gift wrappings and boxes. 
What do you think? If I had them, with Birthday and Christ- 
mas gift cards with your name on them, would they be help- 
ful? Let me know next time you write or send in an order. 
If you want them, I’ll have them for you. 
Supply Short on Clinton Oats 
You’ll notice the story on Clinton Oats, the most outstanding 
oat in years, here in Seed Sense. Just want to remind you 
here that these oats won’t last long. We don’t have enough. 
So get your orders in early. 
Nursery Stock for Southern Gardens 
This year for the first time, I’m listing I page of nursery 
items for Fall-planting in Southern gardens only. By this I 
mean, for gardens south of Shenandoah. Although most things 
can be fall planted anywhere, lots of them do well only when 
planted in the spring. 
Every year I get letter after letter from Oklahoma, Missouri, 
Texas and a dozen other states south of us asking ‘‘why can’t 
we buy peaches, and strawberries, and crepe myrtle, etc.,” in 
the fall... Well, this year you can. They’re listed right here in 
Seed Sense with a hundred other items. 
. But you people in the north shouldn’t be too tempted. These 
things don’t do so well north of Missouri. If you insist on 
ordering, remember ‘‘I told you so.” i 
School-Trained Canaries 








Birds are shipped ex- 
press collect (only small 
charge as birds are 
light) and we send full .- 
details about care and 
feeding with each bird. 
All guaranteed to reach 
you se aaa we give you 10 days to test song 
of male birds an days to examine hens. . Birds 
not entirely adtistactory ean be returned for ex- 
change or refund. Fair enough? 

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THE SUNNY-SONG WARBLERS—Jolly happy singers. Their 
songs are medium loud and varied. They will bring cheer to 
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THE HARTZ MOUNTAIN DS—These sing much louder 
than most birds. Songs ere eee and varied in tone. Very 
pleasing, if you like a loud singer, Sing freely all day long. 
THE ALPINE TRILLERS—These peppy fellows sing their 
faney songs of trills and rolls all day long. Songs are mel- 
low. The notes will delight you. Colors yellow with light 
and medium shadings 
THE ROLLER CANARY is so called on account of its rolling 
-or connected song with beak closed. It is known as the 
Grandest Living Natural Songster. It is a living music box 
and its soft sweet rolls will delight all who love music or 
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We Pay You Top Prices ie Your 
RAW FURS 
A Henry Field shipping tag tied to your.Raw Fur ship- 
ments, means complete satisfaction to you, every time. 
Write for Price List 
Get your name on our mailing list, so we can send you 
our Raw Fur price“lists and shipping tags. They will be 
sent you as soon as fur time is here. We also buy tame 
rabbit skins all year around, 

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Yes, this is Jim who is our main standby at our Ozark home. — 
He is cultivating @ young strawberry patch with ‘‘Bess and 
Beck.” Beck is the 17 year old mule who has worked for 
us all her life and knows more about cultivating than most men. — 
Bess is a beautiful bay filly who is getting her training iy 
working with old Beck—and she don’t think it’s any disgrace 
to work with a mule either. They both love Jim and will fol- © 
low him around like dogs. No, those are not weeds in the — 
strawberries. It’s stray alfalfa plants coming up as this was | 
an old alfalfa field we plowed up to use for a new strawberry — 
"““ FREE GIFTS with Your Orders 
Have always believed in a fair price, plus fair measure and 
a little more. That’s why you see so many FREE GIFTS with 
your orders from Henry Fields. No matter what you order, Sp: 
you get something extra. If you order seeds, you will get some 
extra packets, something you probably couldn’ t get any place + 
else. In nursery it’s the same, you get extra plants, besides’ _ 
what you pay for. So look for them in your orders. They’re 
all plainly marked FREE GIFT. And the bigger the order, the 
bigger the free gift or the more of them. 
A lawn which goes into the: winter well fed, is : far more _ 
likely to emerge in the spring with a minimum of injury. ae 
Reid National Joins United ; a 
I know a lot of you folks here in the Midwest and clear down 
into Texas will be glad to learn that the Reid National Corn 
Co., producers for years of Reid Yellow Dent type bybrids, has. 
joined with United. 
This makes United Hybrid, the kind I sell by mail and at. 
my storés, even better than ever. All of Reid’s inbreds and 
the people ‘who made them come in, too. 
The idea of hybrid producers joining together to produce — 
the ‘‘best possible hybrid” is certainly a good one, as I told ~ 
you last year. Those of you who grew United corn realize — 
that now. So, when you get around to ordering (and don’t put — 
it off too long) send your orders in to me at Shenandoah, But 
first, write and let me know if you want a copy of the big, 
full color, United corn book. ‘Its free. All you have to do is 
ask for it. 
Please Help Me 
If you are one of my customers getting 2 each of my catalo 
or Seed Sense right along, you could do me a real favor if you'd 
just drop me a card or‘tell me on your order when you send t 
You see these days we can’t always get enough help to kee 
our list right up to date. Rather than make a mistake and u 
somebody out of getting their catalog, I lean the other . 
and sometimes mail two to the same house. This costs oe 
lot of money and with oN help I can stop the. waste. Wil 
you help? Thanks, : 
Here’s a form you could pin on 
and I’d sure appreciate it. 
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