FERRY-MORSE SEED CO. 
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Onion plants bagged separately for pollination control at Oakview. 
The building in the background is the dry house. Note the numbered 
stakes. Every Ferry-Morse trial bears a number, which is first entered 
in a book with the varietal name and history of the seed. This inform¬ 
ation also is entered on a card. At intervals during the growing 
season, notes are recorded on this card. Finally, a report in complete 
detail is written and the card filed in a safe in the office of the seed¬ 
breeding station. Copies are typed and sent to the Detroit 
and San Francisco offices 
Cabbages in storage at Oakview. Fifty thousand callages, each closely 
approximating the ideal of its kind, are stored each year, under a 
uniform temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit, for the next year's 
planting for seed 
Some of the sheep fattened during the winter at Oakview. These sheep 
serve a double purpose. They are fed large quantities of old seed unfit 
for planting purposes, and furnish fertilizer for the farm 
Aster "If ork Shop ” at San Juan Bautista. Note the bags isolat¬ 
ing many of the choicest plants 
Selecting parsnips for uleal types, at Salinas 
