THE ASGROW BREEDING AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM 
Listed on the inside page of the front eover are oiir Departments of Breeding where 
skilled ])lant-breeders earry on extensive and intensive work with three objeetives: 
(1) the mainteiicanee of Asgrow pedigreed parent stoeks to prevent the otherwise 
inevitable reversion to earlier types of these highly developed strains^ (2) the adap¬ 
tation of these stoeks to different growing eonditions and the menace of disease 
and ])arasites^ (3) the development of new and im})roved varieties. In all^ upwards 
of 1000 acres are employed and the locations are tliose best adapted to secure 
purity of straiip vigor of growtli and freedom from disease. 
Germination tests in soil at one of the Asgrow laboratories 
