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WHOLESALE SEED GROWERS 
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Part of Cambridge Trial Grounds 
RICE'S Cambridge Trial and Breeding Grounds 
• A number of automobiles can be compared by examination and tested on 
the road; Radios can be hooked to the same connections in a room and com¬ 
pared for quality; many other articles can be compared without substantial 
change in the articles tested. 
• A Seed contains a vital germ of dormant life. The entire future of this 
seed, which represents your crop, is contained in this dormant spark. The 
productiveness, trueness-to-type and resistance to disease of a seed are so 
protected that they can be neither seen, felt, heard, smelled, nor tasted. Only 
by actual planting in the ground can a seed’s qualities be tested and only by 
growing under similar conditions can comparisons between various seeds be 
made. 
• In either automobiles, radios or seeds, accurate tests and comparisons require 
expert knowledge and experience to truly interpret the results. In the same 
way the development and breeding of improved strains and varieties are not a 
matter of chance, but of the painstaking and scientific application of expert 
knowledge and experience. 
• To insure to our customers the maintenance of the characteristics, which for 
over one hundred years have made the quality of RICE’S SEEDS the standard 
of seed comparison, is the purpose of our Trial Grounds. Near our Home Office 
in the beautiful, historic Cambridge Valley, they are under the personal di¬ 
rection of Professor George E. Starr, whose experience is widely known, and a 
corps of carefully trained assistants. 
• To fully comprehend, you should see, and we cordially invite our customers 
and friends to visit us at Cambridge. 
Some of the Cambridge Cabbage Trials 
