Nursery News 

VOLUME II 

ce 
1948 

Shown above are five of the famous Grand Ole Opry stars who have appeared on Farmers Wholesale Nursery 
programs. 
With them is Grant Turner, who does all the announcing. Left to right: Jimmie Selph, Grant Tur- 
ner, Red Foley, Eddie Arnold, Cowboy Copas and Milton Estes. 
WSWM’s Grand Ole Opry, heard every Satur- 
day night from 7:30 til 12:00, is one of the 
nation’s institutions. And, for millions of us, 
it’s a regular Saturday night date—a chance to 
hear the best in American Folk Music for four 
full hours and a half. 
Who in America doesn’t know these names: 
Roy Acuff, Eddie Arnold, Lew Childre, Red 
Foley, Bill Monroe, Ernest Tubb, Milton Estes, 
The York Brothers, and Uncle Dave Macon? 
Yes, there’s a real roster of stars... and they’re 
what make the Grand Ole Opry the GRAND 
entertainment that it is. 
It all started nearly a quarter of a century 
ago. It was on November 28, 1925, that George 
D. Hay, “the Solemn Old Judge,” first brought 
Uncle Jimmy Thompson—a red hot fiddler— 
on the air. Uncle Jimmy was over eighty at 
the time but he fiddled for a solid hour without 
a let-up and then said he was just getting 
warmed up. 
It was the public response to this show that 
established the Grand Ole Opry as a regular 
Saturday night feature of WSM. But they 
didn’t call it the Grand Ole Opry at the time. 
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NUMBER 1 

Farmers Wholesale 
Nursery Offers 25” 
Discount For Early Booking 
SMITHVILLE, Tenn. — Farmers 
Wholesale Nursery of Smithville, Tennes- 
see, is announcing with the publication of 
this paper a revolutionary sales program 
which will pass on to the customer an al- 
most unbelievable savings. 
In the past it has always been the cus- 
tom among nurseries to mail out expen- 
sive catalogues during the summer 
months. This costs money—a lot of it. 
For instance, many nurseries spend 
thousands of dollars a year on their cata- 
logues. And, this expense, of course, IS 
PASSED ON TO THE BUYER. In buy- 
ing trees he has to pay for not only the 
trees BUT the catalogue and the other 
sales expenses as well. 
This summer Farmers Wholesale Nur- 
sery is not mailing out an expensive cata- 
logue. We believe that by doing away 
with expensive sales methods and using 
only this inexpensive little paper that we 
ean do a good business and still sell our 
stock at only three-fourths of the regular 
price. IT IS A DIRECT SAVINGS OF 
TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT TO THE 
BUYER. 
THIS TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT 
DISCOUNT APPLIES ONLY IF CASH 
ACCOMPANIES THE ORDER AND 
ONLY IF THE ORDER IS PLACED 
BEFORE OCTOBER Ist, 1948. 
Delivery will be made in the Fall at the 
proper planting season. As always, all 
nursery stock is backed up by a double 
your money back guarantee. If you are 
not positively satified upon receipt of 
your order, you can get DOUBLE YOUR 
MONEY BACK! 
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT 
Farmers Wholesale Nursery has been appointed a distributor for certain 
Sherwin-Williams products and the nursery is happy to be able to o'er 
Listed below are the articles whic! 
this added service to its customers. 
make up this complete Home and Garden Pest Control Package. 
products were developed by the extensive reasearch service of the wor'd- 
famous Sherwin-Williams Company and have been proven by actual use. 
Here is what is included in the package: 
hold insects. 
All these 
I1—QUART OF PESTROY — the new liquid coating for killing hous 
Applied once, it kills for months. 
1—8-0Z. CAN OF WEED-NO-MORE — the magic weed iil! 
to eliminate weeds from 1600 sq. ft. of lawn. 
1I—HANDY APPLICATOR — Used to apply Pest: 
boards, window sills, etc. 
1—BUG BLASTER — the complete garden tool — dust and gun, al’ 
one—will rid your vegetable and flower gardens of most common 
insect pests and diseases. 
.-.. weeds die... 
1—WEED-NO-MORE AUTOMATIC SPRA‘ 
roots and all. 
