Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1916 — DOES IT PAY TO ADVERTISE? [ARTICLE]

DOES IT PAY TO ADVERTISE?

Editors Republican: Since I have been growing and selling garden and flower also breeding fine chickens and selling eggs fir latching, I have often been asked the question, “Does it pay to advertise?” I have always answered that it surely does. I feel that advertising can be overdone and money wasted if one is not careful, but a certain amount of advertising and in the right way always brings good returns. Three years ago a 25c ad sold me thousands of Ponderosa tomato plant® at Lebanon, Ind. Last year a few dollars worth of advertising sold me tomato, cabbage and flower plants in .Hammond, Chicago and Englewood, besides I shipped eggs to 33 towns in Indiana, Illinois and

Mrs. J. W. King relates her experience.

and this year so far have shipped eggs to 36 Indiana towns and several Ohio towns, even to the city of Columbus and Van Wert, Ohio, and orders still coming in. I have also sold a great many Settings of eggs in Jasper county and have had an extra large sale on flower and vegetable plants this spring. Just yesterday I got an order for 300 mango and 200 salvia plants from a man in Goodland, Ind., on May 22nd I shipped three Ancona hens and one Ancona cockerel and three Blue Andalusian hen£ to Frankfort, Ind. '’"All these sales have come to me through a few dollars spent in advertising.

Mrs. J. W. KING.