FERRY-MORSE SEED CO. 
IS 
The old time general store, where but few articles in addition to Ferry’s Seeds were attrac¬ 
tively displayed, has given way to the effectively equipped department, general, hardware, 
variety, florist, grocery, and drug stores in all of which Ferry-Morse Seeds are displayed. 
Factory methods, too, have changed. In the old days, women filled the packets by hand, 
many of them achieving what seemed astonishing speed. Displays were filled by picking the 
packets out of bins. Today, packets are made, filled, sealed, and stamped with the year for 
which put up, by batteries of machines; displays are filled from a continuous overhead convey¬ 
or nine hundred feet long; the filled displays are sent along a conveyor to be sealed, down a 
Supreme Marglobe tomatoes growing at Oakview 
Another view oj the Salinas Seed Breeding Station. Each cage 
in the foreground contains a single plant, selected because of its 
ideal characteristics 
