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except for good will power. Realizing it was necessary to make a living and retain home for myself and daughter. Decided to convert my twenty four acres into a truck farm. Having been a user of Burpee Seeds for nearly thirty years, now ordered more.

Realized that in order to continue my garden work, would have to build new house, because buildings on farm was a mere shed. Borrowed money with which to purchase lumber.

House completed paid for it, purchased a cow and had a few dollars left, from money received from vegetables grown from Burpee Seeds.

I did not use all the land for vegetables, reserved a small plot for flowers, which were a great prize to me as well as a pleasure to passers by.

Every year since cleared from $1200-$1500- from garden project.