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[[stamped]] AUG 12 1924 [[/stamped]]

Burruss, Va
Aug 8th 1924

"For Prize Contest"  
 
W. Atlee Burpee Co.,

Dear Sirs:

I ordered seed from you and also bought some from another well known firm because they were cheaper; but I'll admit that I paid dearly by doing so. I planted them at the same time and nearly every seed came up in the rows planted with your seeds, while very few of the others came up; so I lost money by planting cheap seed. 

Burpee's seeds, being full of life, had to burst forth out of the ground. The others, being dead when I planted them couldn't come up for a dead