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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: 











When crop is 





Yield seedsmen 





as near maxi- 



A maximum 



would figure on 





mum as 20 bus. 



crop corre- 



in making con- 





of wheat would 



sponding to 



tracts for 





be, or average 



50 bushels 



large 





of "good crop" 



wheat 



quantities 



Bean .... 



GOO 



1,500 



500 



Cabbage . 



250 



800 



200 





(two years) 







Cucumber . 



150 



700 



100 



Muskmelon 



125 



COO 



100 



Pea .... 



900 



2,500 



800 



Squash, "Winter . 



100 



400 



100 



Squash, Summer 



100 



700 



100 



Sweet corn . 



. 1,000 to 2,500 



2,500 to 4,000 



800 to 2.000 





(according to var.) 







Tomato . . . 



100 



400 



100 



Watermelon . 



150 



1,000 



100 



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 



