4 AUTHOR’S PREFACE. 
of all kinds of seeds? With agricultural resources and 
facilities practically unlimited, we lead and excel in 
farm products generally. We not only produce all 
the seeds of grains and grasses (introduced here-from 
abroad) required by ourselves, but also ship great 
quantities to Foreign countries, owing to our producing 
them so cheaply. We have cheaper and better land 
than has Europe, and a greater diversity of climate and 
soil. And besides all these advantages we have what 
goes without saying, an abundance of American intelli- 
gence, energy, application and pride to enable us to 
produce at lesser cost than in Europe, and at a good 
profit to ourselves, the very highest grades of all varie- 
‘ties of seeds for the vegetable and flower garden, for our 
own use and the outside world as well. But after all 
the plain truth of the matter is, what is really required 
to promote the seed-growing industry in our nation is 
simply a display of American enterprise and knowing 
how. 
In seed-growing as in every other art, it is attention 
to a particular line—specialization—that insures success. 
The misfit, the visionary and the ‘‘all-around man”’ 
are all too likely to fall into the same class when results 
are under consideration. But the specialist ‘gets 
there.”’ Bea specialist ! 
It is to stimulate in our farming community the 
spirit just named, that this work, believed to be the first 
published, in any country, treating especially of seed- 
growing for commercial purposes, has mainly been 
prompted, and in the hope that it will furnish the infor- 
mation required for the occasion the volume is launched 
upon its career. 
THE AvTHOR. 
Marietta, Pa., October 1, 19085. 
