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[[underlined]] "What Burpee's Seed Did for Me." For Prize Contest. [[/underlined]]

Few women, I am sure, make their first garden after they reach the age of sixty years, but that is what I have done.

This year, after attempting to have a garden by planting government seed and seed bought from local merchants, I ordered six dollars worth of Burpee's seed.

When my vegetables began coming up I found that I had made two mistakes. I had ordered more than twice enough seed for my plot of ground, because every seed came up, and replanting as I had become accustomed to, was not necessary.  Then too, because the plants were all so sturdy and splendid, I left them too thick for best results.

Never-the-less, in spite of inexperience and dry weather, I have had from three to five vegetables on my table every day since the first of April; have canned fifty-two quarts of different vegetables; have sold; at market price ($12.80) twelve dollars and eighty cents worth, and given away at least ($5.00) five dollars worth, have exchanged with pedlars, for straw berries, etc, ($2.00) two dollars worth and still have squash, carrots, okra, greens, beets, onions and tomatoes from my garden.

I will be sixty-four years of age on Oct. 1st and I have done every stroke of work that has been done, except the plowing which cost me $1.50.

I have never seen any thing like your "Stringless Green Beans", your "Detroit Dark Red Beets" and your "Golden Bantam Corn". 

Lula Stark Pittman.