. Spring 1902 annual catalogue improved northern grown farm and garden seeds, hardy shrubs, roses, and small fruit plants / Farmer Seed Nursery stock Minnesota Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. Farmer Skkd Company, Faribault, Minnesota. CHEAP GRASS AND CLOVER GRASS MIXTURES. A seed firm not very far from us has, for several years, copied our methods and offered our carefully selected Olover- Q-rass Mixtures as "cheap" Mixtures in their own catalog-ue, almost exactly copy
. Spring 1902 annual catalogue improved northern grown farm and garden seeds, hardy shrubs, roses, and small fruit plants / Farmer Seed Nursery stock Minnesota Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. Farmer Skkd Company, Faribault, Minnesota. CHEAP GRASS AND CLOVER GRASS MIXTURES. A seed firm not very far from us has, for several years, copied our methods and offered our carefully selected Olover- Q-rass Mixtures as "cheap" Mixtures in their own catalog-ue, almost exactly copying our descriptions, and for no other purpose, apparently, than to create prejudice against their use, and offered them at very low prices. They also recommend their own Grass Mixtures at very hig-h and unreasonable prices, and the selection of them shows that they know but very little about the varieties they recommend or use. To illustrate this, we mentioQ here that they recommend and use Wliito Clover for meadown, for meadow wet soil, while every farmer knows for what g-round White Clover is best adapted and that it will hardly grow tall enough to clip the heads off with a mower, let alone making a sward. Their cheap Clover-Grass Mix- tures for which they copied our descriptions, etc., from our catalogue almost word for word, likely were made up of the poorest quality of seed, as some seedsmen selling grasses and grass seed mixtures have been in the habit of buying very poor, low grade seed, mostly in Europe, and Congressman S. A. Cook, from the 6th District of Wisconsin, introduced a bill in Congress prohibiting the further buying up of such worthless stuff in Europe and bringing it to this country- As soon as this became known, nearly all the seed dealers of this country worked hard against it, and the firm copying our Clover- Grass Mixtures and offering them as "cheap" Grass Mixtures, issued a call to Seedsmen in the trade papers to help kill this bill and they
Size: 1177px × 2122px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorhenryggi, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookyear1902
