DEAR FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS: 
We're having growing pains. Our business for 1950 was 
50% above that of 1949. We like it, however, because it 
reflects your confidence in us. We are increasing our staff 
and facilities in order to be better able to serve you. We 
have recently purchased a new farm in Costa Rica and have 
added to our staff in Paonia. 
We must be big enough to serve and serve well those 
dealers in our specialties who place quality above every- 
thing else. Thus we have found it necessary to build an 
office staff as well as a production crew. 
Since most of you have already had correspondence 
with him and since sooner or later you will be meeting 
him, I should like to introduce our new Office and Sales 
Manager, Mr. Waldo H. Mott. Although relatively new in 
the seed business. Waldo brings with him valuable train- 
ing and experience in business and sales management that 
plant growers and breeders so often lack. I am particularly 
glad to have such a valuable addition to our staff, because 
it gives me more time to devote to breeding and production 
problems. 
A large part of our success has been due to the un- 
equalled job of production Claude Hope has done in Costa 
Rica. His new farm will insure even greater achievements 
from his end. If you have any shortages due to difficult 
production problems, let us know. Claude can probably 
handle it. 
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