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[[stamped]] Aug 14 1924[[/stamped]] [[#4081]] [[Ans 8/25/24]] [[underlined]] For Prize Contest [[/underlined]] WHAT BURPEE'S SEEDS HAVE DONE FOR ME. I planted one pound of Burpee's Stringless Green Pod beans April 22nd. I must say I believe every bean come up. I used fourteen pounds cheap guano to these beans, seven pounds when planted and seven pounds when in bloom. People began to ask what kind of beans they were sometime before I began to gather, June 8th. I began to sell beans forty-seven days from planting. From this small patch I gathered 192 quarts, selling what I did not need for table use at 15[cents symbol] per quart, I sold $22.50 worth and had lots of calls could not fill. Nothing ever paid me so well considering the out-lay. I planted them at night, cultivated them at night, and gathered them at night, this being the only time I had, using a lantern for light. The pleasure that I got out of this NIGHT garden and the $22.50 cash was very gratifying. I also saved lots of seed and have a second crop coming on which looks even more promising than the first, and from which I expect to save more seed. I had the earliest and finest Stringless Beans in town. D. D. Hilburn, Bladenboro, N.C., August 12, 1924.