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STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Number and value of seed farms in the United Stages. 



a This amount represents the total acreage in farms, only a portion of which is cultivated for seeds any 

 one year. The balance is devoted to grass, pasturage, or a rotation of farm crops in preparation for seed 

 production. Some seed farmers, however lease a considerable area of land or contract to have seed 

 grown for them by neighboring farmers, and so show a greater acreage of seed production than the total 

 acreage of their farms. This is especially true in the North Atlantic division. 



*> No record of any seed farm in Alabama, except a floating newspaper paragraph, which credits one 

 man with the production of 32,000 pounds of garden seeds, which were sold to northern dealers. 



