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Seeds and Seedage 



useful in the geographical area in which they are bred. 

 Seeds of these strains are often sold as "market-garden- 

 ers' private stock." Under general conditions and in other 

 geographical regions, these private stocks may be of no 

 advantage, but in special places and for particular purposes 

 they may make all the difference between success and fail- 

 ure ; and yet the differences in the resulting crop might be 

 of such a character that they could not be definitely de- 

 scribed in a seed catalogue or in an experiment station 

 bulletin. 



The yield of seeds (in lbs.) that may be expected from 

 an acre, under good conditions, is approximately as fol- 

 lows 



How the seeds are grown is told briefly in the chapters 

 that deal with these different vegetables; but this book 

 does not purport to discuss seed-growing, and the person 



