SEED INSPECTION 



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Field Tests of Vegetable Seeds — Continued 



Wholesale Distributor, Variety of Seed True 



Lab. Kind of and Lot Number, Dealer when other to 



No. Seed than Wholesale Distributor, and Place Type 



Collected % 



Remarks 



1069 F Radish 



Mandeville & King Co., Rochester, N. Y. 

 Dresser Hull Co., Lee 



Scarlet Globe 



98 2% light colored 



W. C. Fuller Co., Mansfield 

 288 F Rutabaga American Purple Top 86 14% turnips 



233 F Corn 



216 F 

 219 F 



Beet 

 Beet 



The Page Seed Co., Greene, N. Y. 



J. H. Fairbanks Co., Bridgewater 

 Golden Rush Bybrid, No. B 273847 



Shamut Farmers' Exchange, Millis 



Crosby's Egyptian 



Early Wonder 



85 15% short off -type plants 



98 2% long top shape 

 98 2% obovate 



372 F Beet 



Perry Seed Co., Boston, Mass. 



Crosby's Improved Egyptian 



88 12% long top shape 



346 F Beet 



Ralston Purina Mills, St. Louis, Mo. 



Checkerboard Feed Store, Franklin 

 Early Egyptian 



94 6% top shape 



J. B. Rice, Jr., Inc., Shushan, N. Y. 



Thompson Hardware Co., Lowell 



605 F Beet Early Blood Turnip 96 



606 F Carrot Improved Long Orange 92 



Ross Bros. Co., Worcester, Mass. 



Erickson Farm Supply Store, So. Acton 

 736 F Carrot Danvers Half Long 96 



Ross Bros. Co., Worcester 



430 F Beet Detroit Dark Red 90 



431 F Radish French Breakfast 92 



4% spindle shape 

 4% short top shape — 4% 

 light colored 



4% very light colored 



10% flattened 

 8% globe shape 



Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago, III. 



Sears, Roebuck Co., Cambridge 

 901 F Beet Detroit Dark Red 90 



Joseph Sordillo & Sons, Boston, Mass. 



264 F Carrot Oxheart __ 



270 F Radish Black Spanish Round 98 



Sterling Seed Co., Minneapolis, Minn. 



W. T. Grant Co., Weymouth 

 94 F Beet Extra Early Flat Egyptian 



The Templin Bradley Co., Cleveland, Ohio 

 (The Children's Flower Mission) 



Washington School, Taunton 

 765 F Beet Crosby's Egyptian _ 86 



F. H. Woodruff & Sons, Milford, Conn. 



Carlisle Hardware Co., Springfield 

 672 F Turnip Yellow Globe 95 



H. J. Croteau & Co., Northampton 

 289 F Beet Detroit Dark Red, No. 1-817 C 96 



General Mills, Farm Service Division, 

 Middleboro 



240 F Beans Burpee's Stringless Green Pod 98 



241 F Beans Surecrop Wax, No. 16743 .- ....- 98 



The Hardware Shop, Adams 

 862 F Carrot Long Orange 94 



Highland Hardware Co., Athol 

 889 F Radish French Breakfast 94 



10% flattened roots 



These are not Oxheart but 

 Improved Long Orange 

 2% Scarlet White Tip 



100% true, but very poor 

 type 



4% very light colored- 

 10% spindle shape 



5% purple tops 

 4% long top shape 



2% very short stubby podded 



plants 

 2% vining type plants 



6% light lemon color 



2% dark purple color — 

 4% Scarlet Globe type 



