SEED INSPECTION 



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Table 4 

 Field Tests 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 



11 F 

 15 F 



Cabbage 

 Radish 



Associated Seed Growers, Inc., 

 Milford, Conn. 



W. G. Pearse & Co., Fall River 



Improved Savoy 



Early Scarlet Globe 



183 F Cabbage 



666 F Beet 



378 F Corn 



302 F Carrot 

 301 F Radish 



96 

 93 



Joseph Breck & Sons, Boston, Mass. 



Stoneham Paint & Hardware Co., 

 Stoneham 



Crosby's Egyptian, No. 530536 88 



Danvers Half Long 98 



W. Atlee Burpee Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 



American Hardware Co., Lawrence 



Crosby's Egyptian, No. Ill 96 



French Breakfast, No. 907 86 



C. B. Coburn Co., Lowell 



Burpee's Improved Long Orange . . 84 



Purple Top White Globe 88 



D'Arruda's General Store, Somerset 



Early Jersey Wakefield 92 



Harding Street Grain Co., Worcester 

 Crosby's Egyptian, No. 7501 92 



Palm Grain Co., Lowell 



Marcross No. 1 85 



Shoffield Hardware Co., No. Attleboro 



Tendersweet 85 



Sparkler 92 



Comstock, Ferre & Co., Wethersfield. 

 Conn. 



Bryan Hardvi-are Co., Westfield 

 720 F Beet Detroit Dark Red 94 



W. G. Pearse & Co., Fall River 

 17 F Cabbage Golden Acre 90 



Arthur R. Cone, Inc., Buffalo, N. Y. 



Danvers State Hospital, Danvers 

 S-982 F Rutabaga Long Island Improved, No. 254. . 95 



Massachusetts Reformatory, Concord 

 S-152 F Turnip Purple Top White Globe, No. 196. 97 



Taunton State Hospital, Taunton 



S-85 F Cabbage Glory of Enkhuizen, No. 378 85 



S-89 F Turnip Purple Top White Globe, No. 195 . 93 



Crosman Seed Corp., Rochester, N. Y. 



Neisner Bros., Inc., Holyoke 

 919 F Cabbage Copenhagen Market 85 



Eastern States Farmers' Exchange, 

 West Springfield, Mass. 



Eastern States Farmers' Exchange, 

 Taunton 



144 F Beet Crosby's Early Wonder 98 



136 F Chinese Michihili, No. G 610 100 



Cabbage 

 139 F Rutabaga Bristol White 88 



Ferry-Morse Seed Co., Detroit, Mich. 



Adams Hardware, Inc., Dorchester 



947 F Cabbage Early Jersey Wakefield 95 



954 F Rutabaga American Purple Top 92 



i% triple headed 

 3% bolted to seed— 4% 

 tapered root 



12% tapered shape 

 2% yellow 



4% tapered shape 

 14% purple colored — 

 uniformity lacking 



16% off-type (short stubby 



root) 

 8% Purple Top Strap leaf— 



4% all white 



8% double headed 



8% blunt oblong shaped 



15% off-type — Golden 

 Bantam 



15% short blunt ended 

 6%, 2/3 white— 2% Long 

 Scarlet Short Top 



6% Crosby's Egyptian type 

 10% off-type 



5% Bristol White 

 3% all white 



15% Flat Dutch 

 7% all white 



15% double headed 



2% pink skinned 

 Tendency toward double 



headedness 

 12%c double top 



5% triple headed 



8% New Sweet Germain 



