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For Prize Contest
What Burpee's Seeds Have Done For Me
Through an enforced rest from teaching my attention was drawn to gardening and the open.  From a Burpee catalog which came my way I made a selection of seeds for the kitchen garden.  The first and most valuable thing the seeds did for me was to impress upon me the value of dependability.  For, undeniably "they grow," and I shall hereafter be an enthusiastic purchaser each year.
[[date stamp]] Aug 11 1924 [[/stamp]]
An inherited sense of Dutch thrift prompted me to get the utmost worth from the money, invested, for it was a hardly won
[[pencil insertion]] Aus 8/25/24 [[/insertion]]