True Facts of Good Tomato Seed 
Only nature produces it and returns back to earth. The natural ferment- 
ing and decaying process in direct contact with the soil fed by the open air 
causes an anti-biotical bacterial counter action against destructive seed borne 
diseases that may be present. This is proven by the presence of white mold, 
which everyone has noticed on rotten tomatoes. Would it not have been for 
this favorable bacterial counter action, the tomato would have been extinct 
scores of years ago, due to the rapid multiplication of diseases. Nature does 
not commit diseased seed back to earth in its natural process. 
We grow and process our tomato seed from rotten tomatoes in direct 
contact with the soil, which starts the anti-biotical action. This indeed is a 
terribly rough seed treatment. The effect on the seed is apparent by a dirty 
brown color, a distinct rotten odor and an occasional dried maggot which is 
difficult to mill out. 
WOE BE UNTO THE MAN who boasts of very high germination and 
nice pretty white seed, for nature didn’t intend every seed to germinate and 
reproduce itself. Down through the ages plant and human life have been 
subjected to a continual process of survival of the fittest. The weeklings, 
unable to withstand the elements and disease, were forced to perish. Thus 
in securing white seed and extremely high germination, seeds are extracted 
from firm ripe tomatoes placed in vats or barrels to ferment, completely 
taken away from its bacterial counter action set in action by the soil. In this 
system the seed sinks to the bottom of the juice, completely excluding the 
air, which the latter effect is the same unfortunate situation happening in 
our soils today. 
It is a known fact there are two types of bacteria, namely the destructive, 
which develops from exclusion of air and sunlight. The other form is the 
favorable anti-biotic type, which develops only in open air. In the soil we 
have a constant war against these two bacterial forces. Tomatoes grown 
on soil low in organic matter are very susceptible to diseases, because the 
soil structure has reached a sealed condition excluding the air, causing lower 
soil temperatures, favoring destructive diseases. There upon arises the im- 
portance of continually supplying organic matter, such as compost, animal 
waste, green matter and crop residues in building an aerated soil, restocking 
the supply of favorable anti-biotic bacteria. 
We produce seed for a purpose, not as a by-product. 
We offer gratis mutual cooperation in reciprocal seed exchange of new 
tomato developments to breeding stations and universities engaged in 
variety research. GLECKLERS: SEEDMEN, reserve the right to limit or 
refuse this service to anyone in our opinion not qualified. 
All tomato seed prices in this catalog are postpaid within the U. S. and possessions. 
Foreign shipments are only postpaid to the port of embarkation. 
TERMS: CASH WITH ORDER. 
GLECKLERS: Seedmen, give no warranty, express or implied, as to the productiveness of any seeds we sell and will not be in 
any way responsible for the crop. Our liability in all instances is limited to the purchase price of the seeds. 
