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Straiglit-8 Cucumber, a Ferry-Morse introduction; All-America 
Gold Medal Award, 1934. Uniformly eight inches long. It is not only 
a splendid home garden variety but is ideal for shipping 
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Snapdragon " Work Shop ” at Salinas. Snapdragons fully 
resistant to rust are a recent development 
fifty thousand acres required annually for seed production by the Ferry-Morse Seed Co. 
Here, men of long experience, skilled in their vocations, wage a never-ending campaign to 
keep the many hundreds of varieties true to type, to improve them, if possible, and to find new 
and better strains. More than fifty thousand germination tests and more than nine thousand 
trials for purity are made each year. Thousands of single plants, perfect of their kind or with 
unusual characteristics, are segregated in cages or bags, watched closely, their seed again 
planted separately, in this continuous hunt for perfection. Every lot of seeds has its history and 
performance carefully recorded. 
The weak and the unfit are ruthlessly discarded. Each operation is planned with meticu¬ 
lous care. Detail maps of all sections of the seed-breeding stations are drawn each year and 
filed for reference. Even the location of every beehive in surrounding territory is shown, so 
that the danger of cross-pollination by bees may be avoided. 
Here, too, are the type books worked out by Ferry-Morse men, books so valuable that by 
