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[[stamped]] JUN 2 192[[4?]] [[/stamped]]

"For Prize Contest"

"What Burpee's Seeds have Done for Me."

When I was a boy about fifteen years old and I was passing by a store one day; I chanced to see a book lying there with its leaves flung open; and being full of curiosity, I picked it up and began looking at the [[strikethrough]] pl [[/strikethrough]] pictures of the beautiful flowers and vegetables. I said to myself, "If that man has made his fortune by seed-growing, why  can't I?"

I thought now if I only could buy a piece of land,