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CARTERS & PROGRESSIVE AGRICULTURE 
1836 — 1912 . 
First Stagh.— S eeds are cleaned by machinery. 
There is hardly a better [n-oof of tlie value of fair and honest tradinir than for a seed firm to eontim.e 
in busine.ss for nearly a eentury, and we think we can justly claim that our lar-e and iiroirressive business ! 
entnel) tlue to the con hclenee we have msiiired amongst our customers all over the world. 
This confidence has been procured by the policy first initiated by James Carter, the founder of the firm in 
836, and jHirsued by us ever since the first inception of our e.xtensive business. 
essential object the production of the best and purest seeds 
obtainable, carefully cleaned and tested. This policy is neces.sariiv <-o-ordhiam wkiTd^^^ 
Namunent ot Horticulture and Agriculture in which our firm has always t.'iken a leading part. 
The growing, selection, and testing, of Farm Seed stocks has in consequence been brou-dit to ■, fine 
befor"we^Zn^nceTfm^^^^ S-'-^-^tion entirely unknown 
tuitheiing this ciusade against dodder anti weeds. " ■ I ■ 
l-'or this purpose wc cleaning machinery at our new establishment -it k-.vnn. 
ki ;■ ;i m.;s .h "s"’ »“■" 1; , 
skill can make them. So (.onvinced are we of the value of [Hire, weedless stocks that we narticul irlv draw <.nr 
( ustomers attention to the following notice issued by the Ho.ird of Agriculture : ' ' ' 
‘‘are'anowcd'’to"k' recognise that k is impossible to obtain the best results from the land when weeds 
X f '"''Ad to grow unchecked few, however, may be aware that in manv cases the yielding croiv 
mat be from 40 to 50 [ler cent, higher on a moderately weedless area. ' ^ 
Ravnes .Vakk. London, S.W. — 1912. 
