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For Prize Contest

[[preprinted]]
THE J.M.HUMPHREY COMPANY
LIMITED.
WHOLESALE FOOTWEAR.
OFFICE AND WAREHOUSE 12-14 KING ST.
ST. JOHN, N.B.
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August 1 1925

If the body of this letter exceeds the seed limit, please remember that as it is impossible to prevent nearly all Burpee gardens from exceeding expectations it is equally true of words that grow from 100 to 150 before the weeds are eliminated - hoed out.


Dear Burpee's
"The man with a hoe"

A garden hoe does not prevent a man from thinking, and as a garden produces mainly plants and weeds a " garden thinker" will go far afield, for instance as you start a new cow you wonder first why class preference as demonstrated in Russia is doomed to failure, and in what essential this system differs from the older merit plan, which is the basic principle of progressive action.  These garden plants and weeds are the people of the garden world and with a hoe one endeavors to improve conditions by cutting down the weeds that insist the Earth is theirs  The plants grown from Burpes seeds represent the Progressive Action based on merit - the weeds are Bolshevistic by nature