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[[stamped]] AUG 13 1924 [[/stamped]]

[[underline]] - For Prize Contest - [[/underline]]

Messrs W. Attlee Burpee Co.

Dear Sirs:

The gentle rain is falling!  The long hot, cruel drouth is over. Fields and gardens have been burned to ashes! Shortages of wheat and cotton were feared!  Suffolk County alone has lost ten million dollars in potatoes!  Fear of a water famine forbade the use of hose in gardens sufficiently to be of value!  Yes, the drouth is over; and my two-acre garden shows no ill effects.  Beans are in blossom; tomatoes are maturing; everbearing strawberries are plentiful, and raspberries were never more abundant!

Why?

Because they possess the power to resist! My garden is peopled with the offspring of selected and tested parents! Most of them enjoy the warrant of the House of Burpee! There are no defectives!

How can the lesson be best applied to human affairs? Break up the tenement system! Give each family a garden! Daily exercise and plenty of oxygen will so act upon the vital glands that defects in the course of time must disappear.

Crowding begets discontent, disease and crime! The garden offers a natural remedy! Famine, hardship, sickness, sorrow have fewer terrors for the strong! The basic principle of fitness and survival is [[underline]] selection [[/underline]] whether of plants or animals or men!

Yours sincerely
Samuel Frost
Bayport N.Y
Aug 12th 1924
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