February 15, 1935 
MARKET GROWERS JOURNAL 
79 
United States could be placed in a 
group of nine varieties. While the 
standards established by the Penn¬ 
sylvania Department of Agriculture 
are not all inclusive, they include 
a sufficient number of varieties to 
cover those that are of most com¬ 
mercial importance in Pennsylvania. 
The following varieties and their 
recognized strains or selections may 
be certified under our present regu¬ 
lations provided they conform with 
the generally accepted type for the 
variety: 
Glicks Seed 
Has Never Failed! 
Earliana (Burbank'. Canadian. 
Penn State Earliana). 
Pritchard (Scarlet Topper). 
Bonny Best (Landretb. John 
Baer, Chalk's Jewell) 
Marglobe. 
Globe (Walter Richard’s Gulf 
State Market). 
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GLICK’S Certified 
TOMATO SEED 
—GlicKs Seed Is 
— Leading Varieties — 
HEALTH & VIGOR 
HIGHEST QUALITY 
ABSOLUTE PURITY 
EACH VARIETY IS GROWN and KEPT 
ON SEPARATE FARMS 1 
Individual lines of seed-ex trading machinery and 
equipment installed on each farm for that one 
variety only. ABSOLUTE PURITY PREVAILS! 
YOU GET THIS VITAL PROTECTION ONLY 
UNDER THE CLICK’S SEED FARMS' SEAL! 
7 n buying Certified Seed, — BE SURE ITS GLICKS SEED? 
GlicK's Seed is CROWN ON 
THE, GLICK S SEED FARMS 
SMOhETOWN. Lancaster Co.. PENNA. 
(Ash for particulars.) 
S *aled andCcrlifi 
Greater Baltimore (Indiana Bal¬ 
timore) or Stone (Red Rock. Nor¬ 
ton. Wilt Resistant Stone). 
Ponderosa. 
Names of strains and selections 
given above in parenthesis shall not 
be certified as such but as varieties 
•under which they may appear as a 
group. For instance: Burbank. Ca¬ 
nadian and Penn Slate Earliana will 
be certified as Earliana. Likewise. 
Landretb. John Baer. Chalk's Jew¬ 
ell will be certified as Bonny Best, 
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Varieties certified must show 
characteristics which are distinctive, 
uniform and sufficiently well fixed 
to justify certification. New and pre¬ 
viously uncertified varieties may be 
accepted for certification after hav¬ 
ing been tested in trial plots and 
having proven their commercial 
value. 
It is felt that these standards v'ill 
tend to gradually eliminate varietal 
duplications and establish certain 
other varieties as standard. As will 
be noted, the list grouped above will 
cut the number of varieties from 
twenty-three to nine. 
All tomato fields entered for cer¬ 
tification are inspected once during 
the growing season. Most of the 
fields, however, are given two in¬ 
spections and some of them are gone 
over three times. The first inspec¬ 
tion is made at or about the time 
of the first picking and before any 
roguing is done. The plants at this 
time are undisturbed and show their 
natural growth tendencies better 
than later in the season after they 
have been picked over several times 
and have been pulled down by 
heavy fruit production Type of fruit 
is also more characteristic at this 
time than later in the season. 
While no systematic inspection is 
made of the seed extracting machin¬ 
ery. 6uch equipment is checked to 
see that all possibilities of mixture 
or contamination are eliminated. As 
soon as the seed has been extracted 
it is properly 1 a 
washed and dric<L/Tosnow ,,l you that 
^oil? &r<5Vei l 3 flkve taken every .pre¬ 
caution to avoid mixtures, it wil be in¬ 
teresting to note that one of ani¬ 
seed grower has Installed a separ¬ 
ate line oP seed-extracting machinery 
for each variety of seed grown. No 
two varieties are grown, washed, 
.dried or stored on the same farm J 
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tested for germination by the Penn¬ 
sylvania Department of Agriculture 
and .then stored either in bulk or 
bags until it is shipped to the buyer. 
Most of the seed is packed In halt 
pound and pound lots although it 
may be bought in packet sizes. When 
It is packed in the larger containers 
it is put up in such manner that 
the seal or packet must be broken 
to open the container. This is done 
in order to avoid tampering and as¬ 
sures the ultimate buyer of genuine 
certified stock even though the seed 
might pass through several hands 
before it reaches the grower. The 
larger sized containers all bear the 
certification sticker of the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture. 
Tomato stocks now being certi¬ 
fied have all been given three years 
or more of selection work. No stocks 
will be accepted far certification 
unless they have had at least two 
years of hill-selection work prior 
to entry for certification. 
