SEED INSPECTION 



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Field Test of Vegetable Seeds 



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 



Associated Seed Growers, Inc., 

 New Haven, Conn. 



Essex Co. Cooperative Farming Assoc., 

 Topsfield 



Beet Detroit Dark Red, No. 57072 97 



Carrot Danvers Red Cored 96 



Corn Carmelcross. No. 76141 70 



Turnip Purple Top White Globe 94 



Turnip White Milan 94 



W. G. Pearse & Co., Fall River 



Turnip White Egg, No. 70582 90 



Turnip White Egg, No. 90625 86 



Sears, Roebuck & Co., Lawrence 



Carrot Imperator 95 



Turnip Purple Top Strap Leaf 76 



Turnip Purple Top White Globe 94 



3% tapering roots 

 4% pointed roots 

 30% tasselate ears 

 6% lacking purple top 

 2% all purple — 4% Purple 

 Top White Globe 



10% globe shape 

 14% globe shape 



5% split flesh 

 24% all white 

 6% lacking purple top — 



mottled over all turnip on 



50% — fair strain 



Sears, Roebuck & Co., Quincy 



587 F Beet Detroit Dark Red 98 



588 F Radish Early Scarlet Globe, No. 4277 98 



2% oblong 



2% pink rooted — develop- 

 ment all in top growth — 

 poor strain 



Shurtleff Hardware Co., Middleboro 

 227 F Radish French Breakfast 96 



Joseph Breck & Sons, Boston, Mass. 



875 F Radish Long Scarlet Short Top 68 



876 F Radish French Breakfast 98 



877 F Rutabaga White Cape 92 



879 F Turnip White Egg 94 



880 F Turnip Purple Top White Globe 94 



D'arruda General Store, Somerset 

 140 F Radish Scarlet Globe, No. 27 96 



W. Atlee Burpee Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Clinton Hardware & Auto Supply Co., 

 Clinton 



930 F Radish Sparkler 99 



932 F Turnip Purple Top White Globe 72 



C. B. Coburn Co., Lowell 



281 F Radish French Breakfast, No. 907 98 



282 F Radish Scarlet Globe. No. 883 20 



279 F Rutabaga Burpee's Purple Top Yellow 92 



280 F Turnip Purple Top White Globe, No. 1163 . 79 



Palm Grain Co., Lowell 

 263 F Beet Crosby's Egyptian, No. 629 89 



The Clapper Co.. West Newton, Mass. 



918 F Radish Scarlet Globe 98 



919 F Rutabaga American Purple Top 96 



921 F Turnip Golden Globe 96 



Comstock, Ferre & Co., Wethersfield, Conn. 



Phaneuf & Son, New Bedford 

 159 F Turn'p White Egg 82 



Joseph Sordillo & Sons, Boston 



8 F Beet Detroit Dark Red 94 



9 F Beet Crosby's Egyptian 



16 F Carrot Improved Long Orange 98 



4% semi-globe shape 



32% French Breakfast 

 2% globe shape 

 8% American Purple Top 

 4% Purple Top — 2% globe 



shape 

 6% lacking purple top 



4% long cylindrical 



1% White Icicle 



26% all white — 2% all pufple 



2% semi-globe shape 



80% went to seed without 



proper root development 

 4% Macomber — 4% Purple 



Top White Globe Turnip 

 17% lacking purple top — 



4% all purp'e 



11% globular rooted 



2% slightly tapering; other- 

 wise an excellent strain 



4% all yellow 

 4% tapered root 



12% globe shape — 6% Purple 

 Top 



6% oblong roots 



100% short topped — 10% 



tapered roots — weak strain 

 2% yellow flesh 



