RUDY-PATRICK SEED COMPANY 
DIRECTORS 
Roy A. Edwards, President SERIE! GESDED SRCSEESS LE ULES PRODUCERS | 
Ross M. Eldridge, Vice-President KANSAS CITY, MO. 
Vernon F. Rudy, Vice-President PROCESSORS 
Wilbur C. Hoover, Treasurer EXPORTERS 
C. A. Patrick, Secretary 
Royal Brand Seeds Real Producers 
HIS BOOKLET is intended as a reference work on the best varieties of vegetable seeds. 
Our seeds are sold to planters by thousands of live, progressive merchants and jobbers 
throughout the country. This patronage over a period of many years is the result of the 
dependability, hardiness and productiveness of our high grade selected seeds. Our seeds are 
grown in those sections of production which our long experience has shown to reach their 
fullest development as to type and strain. Likewise, our seeds are selected as to their adapta- 
tion to the sections in which we sell. To use cheaper and unknown seeds is to risk poor crops 
and unsatisfactory stands. 
We maintain a complete laboratory for analyzing and testing the seeds we send out, 
thus insuring tested stock at no increased cost. Shipments are tested and tagged to comply 
with the seed laws of the various states and the federal seed act. 
Our organization, developed through a third of a century of growth, is composed of men 
of ripe experience, trained in the technical demands of this exacting business, whose life 
work is dedicated to the promotion of better seeds and larger crops. In addition to the 
executives, who guide the policy of this business, is a large force of capable office, plant and 
field workers, seed analysts, cleaning and refining experts, field buyers and inspectors, feed 
millers, credit men, traffic men, etc. 
A very few communities raise sufficient seeds for their own consumption. Even when 
some farm seeds are produced in a particular section, they may not be fit for seeding. They 
need to be analyzed in the laboratory for noxious weeds, to come under the eye of the 
experienced cleaner. Home-grown vegetable seeds are not as a rule successful as they are 
apt to be mixed, hybridized, and often of doubtful germination. Modern scientific methods in 
large scale breeding and development of vegetable seeds have superseded the hit and miss 
methods of saving home-grown seeds as in our grandfather’s day. Why experiment when the 
services of a large concern are at your service? Any slight increase in price over home-grown 
or cheaper seeds is more than offset in the increased resuits per acre and larger yield in 
bushels and tons. 
Then, too, our machinery and equipment is the most improved and modern. Our seeds 
are refined by new processes, special screens, air blasts, gravity separators, etc. All perform 
their minute operation, almost with human touch, and the many thousands of farmers and 
gardeners who intrust their seed orders to the merchants handling our seeds, reap the benefit. 
When the season for planting is on, large stocks must be quickly available. Our orders 
are usually shipped the same day they are received. 
REAL SERVICE, not only in preparing seeds, but in getting them to the consumer, as 
needed, is our slogan. 
The reliance on the reputation and responsibility of seedsmen is more important than 
other vendors of goods and services as they deal with the life germ of the seed in the eternal 
cycle of plant production. 
As crops are subject to the human element in sowing and reaping; governed by soil and 
seasons and the divine chemistry of nature, there can be no guarantee of results by anyone 
in the cycle of production. It is, therefore, sound sense to rely on the personnel, laboratory 
equipment and reputation of a large seed house as Rudy-Patrick in order to safeguard as much 
as human experience and resources may permit. In common with other seedsmen we are 
forced to follow the nature of our business in respect to non-warranty of seeds and all 
goods are sold under the usual seedsmen’s non-warranty disclaimer. 
The Rudy-Patrick Seed Company warrants to the extent of the purchase price that seeds or bulbs 
sold are as described on the container within r2cognized tolerances. Seller gives no other or further 
warranty, expressed or implied. 
RUDY-PATRICK SEED CO. 
CONSTABLE-HODGINS PRINTING CO., KANSAS CITY, MO. 
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