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purpose. 
‘To tell of the possibilitie 

HEAT-HARVEST, 1948, will mark the beginning of 
the fiftieth year for Hoffman Seeds. What a lot of 
things have happened to American farming in that time. 
Two major wars.. 
. depressions .. . shortages . . . Gov- 
ernment regulations ... low prices ... high prices. Yet, 
during those same years, U. S. farming has made its 
greatest strides in all history. Compare some of the slow, 
old-time hand methods. . 
to modern and efficient ways of harvesting; lessening the 
. how they have given way 
risks of weather and preventing crop losses. For in- 
stance, hand-turning the hay, heaping, pitching . . . com- 
pared to today’s pick-up baler (opposite page). Modern 
machines work the land more efficiently with less man- 
power to meet the shortage and high cost of farm help. 
More efficient methods of planting, cultivating, harvest- 
ing help offset the fact that the land itself costs more. 
Methods of feeding our ground to keep up its produc- 
tivity . .. ways of preventing precious topsoil from 
washing away . without all these things, American 
farms today couldn't begin to feed all the people depend- 
ing on them. 
The Hoffman job here has been to help you meet these 
situations as they developed ... providing the right kind 
| | | O TEACH the grower to plant good 
XS} seed to the end that two bushels may 
grow where one grew before; to 
gather together from the farthest parts 
| of the earth, those varieties that have shown 
] remarkable development; and to further improve 
them by careful culture and observation is my 

ier yoreesot wisdom, written 
Somemonveveats ago by A. H. Hoft- 
an epee eaw hose foresight has 
Reipea menyemmousands of Eastern 
feeecemmeeemerecrop profits. You 
fay sige @eeseimaepages of interest. 
Dat tees ewentivecanyes that follow 
fora jeseeeeetemeeyuide to better 
fone prometogayemaadid the state- 
ent oveiimeeonmeamemist after the 
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“Success be Great in ‘48. ~ 













of seeds. For the ability of seeds to prod penenereps 
has progressed right along with better farN@iigmemmoaer 
The wheat which our founder, A. H. Hoffman, so 
proudly advertised a half century ago (he’s stare in a 
field of it in the top picture) was better wheat ‘Wan his 
Lancaster County neighbors had been growing. Wame 
has long since been superseded by improved Bi, 
Standards are continually being raised. 
ai 
Remember when you, like us, were hard at work try\ 
ing to improve the quality of the old corns—the Yellow® 
Dent types, Leamings, ensilage types, and the like? How 
