WHAT KIND OF A GARDEN 
DO YOU WANT? 
When you purchase seed you are really buying a garden. You are 
preparing to embark upon a voyage that may take the better part 
of the year to complete. "What the harvest will be" depends not 
only upon your own careful planning, diligence and skill but also 
upon the seedsman who passes on to you the fruits of his efforts. 
A Seedsman's Duty You are probably familiar with Edgar 
A. Guest's poem entitled "A Package 
of Seeds." It begins: "I paid a dime for 
a package of seeds and the clerk tossed them out with a flip," and 
concludes: "In this bright little package, now isn't it odd? You've a 
dime's worth of something known only to God." How true this is, 
because in most cases there is no way you can tell the variety, true¬ 
ness to type, productiveness or hardiness by examining the seed. 
You may readily pass on the sample, and germination tests can 
easily be made for viability, but you must depend upon the seeds¬ 
man for all of the other important considerations. When you buy 
your garden, look farther than just the cost of the seed. 
Seed Is More Than 
Merchandise 
It is true, seed is merchandise; but it 
is more than that and a good merchant 
is not necessarily a good seedsman. A 
real seedsman must have an ardent 
affection for his work, and it is really more than a life's work. Most 
successful seed businesses are handed down from one generation to 
the next and with them the ideals of quality and extreme care so 
necessary to this service. 
Staking a Year's Work 
Against the Seed You 
Choose 
If you are a trucker or market grower, 
the seed you plant assumes an even 
more vital significance. You must have 
hardiness; plants that come up strongly 
and grow with vim, vigor and vitality. 
You must also have the variety suited to your needs; true to type 
and uniform as to shape, size, color and quality. First class, uniform 
produce brings top market prices and is much more easily sold. 
Hardy as a Scotch 
Highlander 
It is a pretty well established fact that high 
altitude grown seeds are the hardiest ob¬ 
tainable. We are situated at an altitude of 
4,200 feet, and some of our farms as much as 
6,800 feet. The nights are cool and, due to the thin atmosphere, days often 
become very warm. The extremes of temperature have a great deal of effect 
upon inherent hardiness of the seed. This is easily illustrated in alfalfa: south¬ 
ern grown alfalfa seed sown here produces plants which winter kill, while 
native and northern grown alfalfa seed produces plants that are hardy and 
will live for many years. 
There is also a natural selection for earli- 
_ .. ness. For instance: Iowa Silvermine Corn 
Oil tarliness from Iowa planted 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 matures about two weeks earlier. The same applies 
more or less to vegetables. 
(Continued page 13) 
Effect of Altitude 
EXPLANATION OF ILLUSTRATIONS INSIDE FRONT COVER 
(1) Cantaloupe, H. B. No. 36. 
(2) Commercial crop of Tomato, Gulf State Market. This picture appeared in 
several Colorado newspapers with the explanation that the field of tomatoes 
was grown at Jacksonville, Texas. We wrote one of our customers there 
and found that the crop had been grown from our seed. 
(3) Photograph taken in McElmo Canyon where we grow lettuce, squash, water¬ 
melon, tomato, pepper and other items. Mountain in the background is 
Ute Peak. 
(4) Showing the class of bulbs we set to produce Burrell's Strain Sweet Spanish 
Onion seed. 
(5) Selecting watermelons for seed. 
(6) A fine field of Original Strain Hale's Best Cantaloupe, piled ready for 
seeding. 
(7) Seed Field of Cocozelle Squash. 
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