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[[stamped]] AUG-8 1924 [[/stamped]]

For Prize Contest
August 5, 1924
Mrs. [[letterhead]] F.R. HALSTED
MENDHAM, N.J. [[/letterhead]]

[[underlined]] "What Burpee's Seeds Have Done for Me" [[/underlined]]

When we moved from the city ten years ago, we were both novices at "farming", so the first year or two were experimental as to quantity, quality, and variety of seeds. For the past eight years we have used "Burpee's Seeds that Grow" and have scarcely bought any vegetables, as our garden supplies us the year around.  Long before "Conservation" became part of the housewife's inner consciousness, I canned everything in sight, even to lettuce and egg-plant, and any one who has done this will shun commercial canned goods, as the home-canned vegetables are so superior.
    
My flower garden this year is doing missionary work, supplying blossoms to those less fortunate, and to the sick.
    
The small outlay for seeds each year, compared with the cost of buying vegetables speaks volumes for gardening.  Of course it means hard work, but how many of us are doing anything that pays better in results and healthful occupation?

Christine K. Halsted