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CONTROL SERIES NO. 147 



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 



Pierce Hardware Co., Taunton 



14 F Cabbage Golden Acre 95 



15 F Cabbage Copenhagen Market 88 



Sharon Hardware Co., Sharon 

 1213 F Turnip White Egg 91 



Sunshine Feed Store, Bridgewater 

 149 F Carrot Danvers Half Long 91 



Budd D. Hawkins, Reading, Vt. 



Herman F. Davis, Merrimac 

 997 F Rutabaga Improved Purple Top Yellow 88 



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



Waters & Brown Co., Salem 

 1079 F Carrot Danvers Half Long 92 



Nortlirup, King & Co., Minneapolis, Minn. 



Ciolek Hardware Co.. Ipswich 

 946 F Turnip Purple Top White Globe 92 



Perry Seed Co., Boston, Mass. 



419 F Radish Scarlet Globe 96 



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



Templeton Farmers Cooperative Assoc, 

 Templeton 



545 F Cabbage Copenhagen Market 50 



546 F Rutabaga American Purple Top 97 



548 F Turnip Purple Top Strap Leaf 91 



Ross Bros. Co., Worcester, Mass. 

 Kindler Hardware Co., Webster 

 1248 F Carrot Danvers Half Long, No. 2869 96 



Langer Hardware Co., Oxford 

 1243 F Turnip Early Purple Flat Top 94 



Oxford Paint & Hardware Co., Oxford 

 1246 F Rutabaga Golden Purple Top 97 



Joseph Sordillo & Sons, Boston, Mass. 



480 F Cabbage Early Summer Jersey Wakefield. ... 20 



483 F Radish Long Red 25 



Vaughan's Seed Store, New York, N. Y. 



C. H. Symmes & Co., Winchester 

 511 F Carrot Imperator 96 



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



Action Supply Co., So. Acton 

 542 F Corn Victory Golden 82 



Checkerboard Feed Store, Fitchburg 

 321 F Beet Crosby's Egyptian 94 



J. H. Fairbanks Co., Bridgewater 



153 F Beet Detroit Dark Red 97 



160 F Rutabaga American Purple Top 88 



Farm Bureau Assoc, Waltham 



297 F Cabbage Golden Acre 90 



298 F Carrot Danvers Half Long 94 



295 F Corn Lincoln 97 



299 F Turnip Purple Top White Globe 85 



Haverhill Hardware & Plumbing 

 Supply Co., Haverhill 

 957 F Radish French Breakfast — 



954 F Radish Sparkler White Tip 95 



952 F Rutabaga Long Island Improved 97 



948 F Turnip White Egg 85 



5% double headeed 

 12% elongated heads 



9% Purple Top White Globe 

 9% long tapered roots 



9% Turnip— 3% all yellow 



8% yellow flesh 



8% tapered root 



2% pink flesh — 2% tapered 

 root 



50% outer leaves bluish 

 3% Purple Top White Globe 

 Turnip 

 3% all purple — 6% all white 



4% double rooted 



6% round rooted 



3% Turnip 



5% double headed, late, large, 



blue. 



None of heads conical 

 75% of heads not formed. 

 Remainder round flat headed 

 75% all vegetative growth 



with no root development 

 Poor strain 



4% Danvers Half Long type 



18% off-type 



6% tapered root 



3% flat rooted 



12% all top growth — no root 

 development 



10% triple headed 

 6% double rooted 

 3% off-type 



12% all white— 3% carrot 

 shape 



Very poor strain — roots 



tapered 

 5% purple with white tip 

 3% went to seed 

 15% flat rooted 



