People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1897 — A STRANGE FREAK OF NATURE. [ARTICLE]

A STRANGE FREAK OF NATURE.

We hope to sell 1,000,000 packages Oolden Rind Watermelon, the most wonderful freak of nature —smooth, shiny, yellow rind, crimson flesh, delicious! It’s sensational. Took 600 first prizes in 1896. You must have it to be in the swim. Melons go like wild fire at SI.OO apiece. We paid SBOO for one melon! SIOO prizes for earliest melon —ripened in 1896 in 41 days. Lots of money made in earliest vegetables. Balzer’s seeds produce them. Thirtyfive earliest sorts, postpaid, SI.OO. Bend This Notice and IS Cent* for a Package of Golden Rind and wonderful Beed book, 146 big pages, to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis. w.n.