Occasionally a customer will write us as follows, “I 
like your seeds, they are the best I have ever used, but 
freight charges always seem to be high.” With three 
shipping points, Clarinda, Streator, Illinois, or Mar- 
ion, Ohio, charges are reasonable to most points. It is 
hard to get the exact rate for any particular distance 
in averages as they vary between freight and truck 
and again between grass seeds and grains, such as oats, 
On the average order at our present prices freight 
costs will average about as follows: Within 200 miles 
of shipping point about 3% additional over the amount 
ordered. From 2 to 400 miles about 59%, and over 400 
miles on up to greater distances, 7%. As near as we 
can figure now the average cost would run around 5%. 
In other words, if your order is for $100.00 the freight 
charges on the average would run about $5.00 and there 
THE COST IS ONLY A FEW CENTS AN ACRE 
so the customer will know the exact cost of seeds he is 
buying. This would put a penalty on the customer 
closer to shipping point than those that are distant. 
Therefore, to be fair we quote everything f.o.b. ship- 
ping point and the customer pays the freight charges. 
Seed is the most important item that you have to buy 
this year. Freight becomes a small item. 
will be cases where it is more or less depending on 
distance and just how much of your order is for grass 
seeds and how much is for grain and whether it is a 
truck or a local freight shipment. Another way to 
state this average would be using a rate of $1.25 per 
hundred. Because an average order now of 409 lbs. 
will run about $100.00 in value, so the freight-~would be 
about $5.00. 
HOW DOES THAT WORK OUT? 
Red Clover is generally sown 7% lbs. per acre. If 
the freight is as much as $2.00 per 100 that means 15c¢ 
an acre. At $1.00 freight it is only 744c an acre. Alfalfa 
is sown at 12 lbs. per acre so then freight may mean 
12c to 24c per acre more. There is scarcely any seed 
Gro-Coated Brand Seeds have in thousands of farm 
tests made stands that ranged from 15% to 150% more 
than were obtained under identical conditions with 
WHAT A WHALE OF A DIFFERENCE A FEW 
CENTS CAN MEAN IN YOUR FIELDS 
excepting small grain that is sown at over 20 lbs. per 
acre and Grains and Beans take lower rates. So the 
extra cost per acre for freight can be figured in 
pennies. 
seed of equal quality but without Gro-Coat protection. 
An increase in the number of plants per acre generally 
means a corresponding increase in yield. 
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO YOU? 
Based on reports from many farmers an average in- 
crease in stands and yields is 30 to 40%. Taking only 
25% you get the following average results: Normal 
yield in two cuttings 3 tons per acre. 25% increase 
means 34 of a ton more hay. At $18.00 per ton means 
$13.50 more income per acre. That’s what a few cents 
more per acre can buy for you. Even with only 10% 
You can actually save on acre seed cost. Since more 
Gro-Coated Brand seeds make healthy vigorous plants 
it doesn’t require as much seed per acre as with non- 
Gro-Coated seed. If you are satisfied with the kind of 
stands you have been getting you can cut your seeding 
rate about 25% with Gro-Coated Brand seed. 
You can get much heavier stands than normal from 
ACRE COST CAN BE LOWER 
increase you get $5.40 per acre extra profit. 
_ If our Gro-Coated Brand seed does not produce a 
better stand we will refund you in cash any extra cost 
per acre you have in our seed. We give you this extra 
assurance of better stands and give you back the extra 
expense if you don’t get it. You can’t afford to buy. 
on any other basis, 
regular seeding rates. Any way you look at it Berry’s 
Gro-Coated seed is the most economi¢al seed you 
can buy. 
The small added cost of transportation can well 
prove to be the wisest investment you can make this 
year, 
etc. We have considered prepaying all freight charges _ 
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