RUDY-PATRICK SEED COMPANY 
Producers -— Processors -— Exporters 
1212 WEST 8TH KANSAS CITY 7, MO. 
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R. A. EDWARDS CHAS. A. PATRICK ROY A. EDWARDS Ke R, DEVENPORT 
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD VICE-PRES. & TREAS. SECRETARY CONTROLLER 
ROSS M. ELDRIDGE VERNON F. RUDY EUGENE B. MANGELSDORF ART B.SEUSHER 
PRESIDENT VICE-PRESIDENT ASSISTANT SECRETARY SUPERINTENDENT 
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 seiected seeds. Our seeds are 
grown in those sections ot production which our long experience has shown to reach their 
tullest 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, 1s composed olf men 
ut ripe experience, tralmed 1n the technical demanus ol this eXacling buslluess, Whose life 
work is dedicated to the promotion of better seeds and larger Crops. 1n adultion to Lhe 
executives, who guide the policy of tis business, 1s a large torce of capable ollice, plant and 
fieid workers, seed analysts, Cleaning and retining experts, field buyers and inspectors, teea 
miilers, credit men, trafilc men, etc. 
A very tew communities raise sufficient seeds for thelr own consumption. Even when 
some tarm seeds are produced in a particular section, they may not be fit for seeding. ‘l‘hey 
need to be analyzed in the laboratory for noxious weeds, to come unuer the eye of the 
experienced cleaner. Home-grown vegetable seeds are not as a rule successiul as Ley are 
apt to be mixed, hybridized, and often ot doubtful germination. Modern scientitic Methods Mm 
large scale breeding and development of vegetable seeds have superseded the hit and miss 
methods ot saving home-grown seeds as in our grandtather’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 ot farmers and 
gardeners who intrust their seed orders to the merchants handling our seeds, reap the benerit. 
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 otf 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 Kudy-Patrick in order to sateguard 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. 
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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 rzcognized 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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