6 HENRY FIELD’S SEED SENSE FOR MARCH, 1949 —Henry Field Seed & 
HENRY FIELD’S SEED SENSE 
“FOR THE MAN BEHIND THE HOR” 
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. Rese (Nursery) Irving Steurer (Garden Seed) 
Deane Schneider (Field Seed) —€& all my friends and customers 





Subscription Price—A Garden Seed, Field Seed 
or Nursery Order 



Send Me Your Picture 
Couldn’t get out Seed Sense if so many of my customers 
and friends all over the country didn’t send me. pictures— 
pictures of themselves, their children, gardens, homes, 
relatives, crops, livestock. 
Sometimes some of them are too dim to print well, and 
sometimes I get more than I can use. SoI can’t guarantee 
to use all the pictures sent me. 
How about you sending me some pictures? I’d like to 
keep the pictures, whether or not I use them fn Seed Sense, 
so don’t send one you want yourself unless the one you 
are sending me is an extra print. And I’ll pay you 50c for 
each picture I use. : 
Letters From Friends _ 
I like to hear from all my friends and customers ... 
old ones and new ones ... but every day or so I get a 
letter that starts out: “Dear Henry: I’ve been buying from 
you for over 40 years.” 
Well, when they start out like that it just warms my 
heart. Makes me feel good to know that you people have 
stayed with me that long. 
Course I could go on and say that we here at the seed 
house must have been doing a good and honest.and friend- 
ly job during all these years, or else you folks wouldn’t 
have stayed with us. Must be so. And from a business 
point of view, it is not too much to say that you have been 
the backbone of my business. 
But business aside (and I never have run this place just 
for business reasons, but mostly because I got so much 
fun out of it), it sure makes me and-the Mrs. feel good to 
hear from you old friends year after year. I have been in 
the seed business, right here at the same place, since I 
was six years old, when I peddled my stuff from house to 
house. And as I look back over all the years, I don’t know 
of anything I have gotten out of this business that means 
more to me than the friends I have made, old and young, 
all over the country. 
I’d like to get some idea of how many of you have been 
buying from me for 30 years or more. If you are one of 
them, please write me a letter and tell me so, just for old 
time’s sake. I’ll appreciate it. 
We Make Mistakes 
Ever since the day I started this business I have been 
trying to do everything perfect. Same with everyone work- 
ing forme. Still we make some mistakes. 
Now I don’t think we make more than our share of er- 
rors. Probably less than most seed houses. But my point 
is this: If we made a mistake in your order, or if you have 
any kind of a gripe, please don’t just get a “mad on” and 
say nothing about it. 
Write and tell me about it and give me a chance to 
straighten it out. I will consider it a favor. 

“One generation” passeth away, and another generation 
cometh—but the earth abideth forever.” (Ecc.: 1-4) 
_ because, when they got in a 
-good picture of them because 


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Nursery Co., 
Ozark Neighbors 
The two children at the 
right are Buddy and Dorritt — 
Botkin, who live near my 
place down in the Ozarks. 
Their mother told me that 
she never had been able to 
get a good picture of them 
studio, they “froze up,” and 
she thought I could get a 
they and I are such good 
friends. So I took the pic- 
ture, and we all had a lot of 
fun, and here is the photo- 
graph. Nice kids. 
Their father, Carter Bot- 
kin, drives the rural mail 
route that passes by our place 
in the Ozarks. 
Moon Sign Planting Dates for 1949 
Don’t know if you are interested or not, but here are the © 
planting dates for 1949 according to the moon signs, as I figure : 
them. If you want more details better get the Llewellyn Moon ~ 
Sign book advertised on page 10 of our catalog, which is prob- — 
ably the best known authority. It sells at $1.10 postpaid (not 
$1.30 as the catalog says) and we can supply you. | a 
Potatoes (early)—March 17-18 and also 26-27, or in a late season, ar! 
April 13-14, ay he 
Potatoes (late)—May 20-21 and June 16-17. 3 
Beets, radishes, carrots, onions, and other root crops, same dates Z 
as early potatoes. we 
Corn (Including field corn, sweet corn, and popcorn)—May 2-3, ~ 
and May 29-30. Orin the south or in a very early season, April 5-6. | 
Beans, melons, cucumbers, squashes, same dates as corn. 
Tomatoes (Outside)—May 2-3, also May 10-11 and 29-30, or in 
south or early season, April 5-6. % 
Tomatoes, in hotbeds or in house—February 27-28, also Feb. 9-10 ¢ 
and March 8-9. 
Cabbage (Inside)—Same as tomatoes. 
Cabbage (Outside)—March 9-10, April 5-6 and May 2-3. 
a eae: also mustard, leek, and chard—Same dates as cabbage out- 3 
side. 
Late Cabbage—May 29-30-31 and for real late, June 7-8. 
Butchering dates—February 9-10 and March 9-10. ; 
Weeds and Briars—The Missourians say that if you chop your | 
sprouts and briars and big weeds in the sign of the heart (Leo) 
in the dark of the moon in August (August 20-21 this year) they 
will not sprout up again, but will die. ... Or late in July in the © 
sign of Gemini (July 21-22 this year) is good. 
Did You Get Two Catalogs? z 
Every year when I send out my big catalog in January, : 
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some people write and tell me they got two copies. Last. 
year one woman wrote me that she got four. Now some- — 
times that happens just because some of us here made a 4 
plain mistake. And sometimes different members of a ; 
family, or different people at the same address, order from © 
me, and I put both names on the mailing list.. I can’t al- 5 
ways tell whether I should or not, so I always lean to send- — 
ing too many rather than not enough. Don’t want anyone — 
who wants my catalog not to have one. Bishi gt 
So if you got too many catalogs, do me and someone else — 
a favor by first passing your extra one along to a neigh- — 
bor. And then let me know about it on this coupon. I sure — 
would appreciate it. 28 




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