Good, Uniform Produce That Packs and Looks Well Is More Easily 
Sold and to Better Advantage * 
' Norton Tomato — Wilt Resistant Stone«— Tiiis fine tomato is a favorite 
with our California customers. 
ADAPTABILITY 
OF OUR SEEDS TO PLANTING IN DIFFERENT LOCALITIES 
We often receive letters asking' if Colorado grown seeds are adapted to 
planting in other sections. Seeds grown in the north or at high altitude are 
generally conceded to be superior for planting farther south or at lower alti¬ 
tudes. High altitude grown seeds are well adapted to planting in the north. 
Our altitude of 4,000 to 6,000 feet is equivalent to 800 to 1,200 miles farther 
north at sea level. Reasons for this can best be given by taking alfalfa as 
an illustration: Southern grown alfalfa seed sown here produces plants 
which winter-kill; while our native and northern grown alfalfa seed pro¬ 
duces plants which are hardy and will live many years. 
Altitude has even more effect on the inherent hardiness of seed than 
does latitude. Iowa Silvermine Corn from Iowa planted here in the Rocky 
Ford district will not mature the entire crop the first year of an ordinary 
growing season. Tests have shown that this variety grown here for several 
generations matured about two weeks earlier. The same facts apply more 
or less to vegetable seed. 
We have had letters from one of our customers, who grows early varieties 
of cantaloupe from our seed at a latitude of 800 miles north of Montreal. 
A customer in South Carolina reported that cantaloupes grown from Colo¬ 
rado seed were more than a week earlier than the same variety produced 
from locally grown seed. Florida tomato growers report a gain of several 
days in earliness by using our Colorado grown seed. There is a natural 
selection for earliness and hardiness in seeds grown at our altitude. It 
will be to your advantage to use them. 
D. Y. and his grand-daughters, Barbara and Bernita, ra f cue a , Jac ^ 
Lantern before the seed-cutters use up all the pumpkins. The high mou 
'grolvn ' seeds^procluce hardier, earlier crops-.he kind that 
will make you money. 
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