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The Perfect Pea Picker

The Rutherford Sun, September 9, 1920

Wouldn’t you prefer to pick your peas with a Perfect Pea Picker?

Picks 40 to 60 Bushels of Peas a Day.Cotton must be picked—peas are ready at the same time. Help is scarce all hands must be put into the cotton fields--one to pick peas although peas are bringing prices that make farmers rich. Many farmers let the peas go. Why raise peas to lose them? Perfect Pea Picker. With one man to drive, picks as many in one day as 20 to 30 men—does It better guaranteed to do it day after day. Five years practical tests prove it to be the greatest implement offered to farmers in years. Pays for itself in one season on extensive acreage, lasts for years with care. You can afford to pick your peas with a Perfect Pea Picker. Ask for full illustrated information. Sold By Cliffside Mills Store, Cliffside, N. C. Manufactured by Perfect Pea Picker Co. Inc., Hartwell, Ga. Sales Dept. 711 Silvey Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.

True story: Don Bailey, who contributed this old advertisement, once met a lady who years before had come into a lot of money. She considered investing in either Coca-Cola or the Perfect Pea Picker Co. Unfortunately, she chose the wrong company.