ROCKY FORD, COLORADO 3 
mminiiiiiiniiuiiiiiiiiMiiiiiniiniiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniMiiiiiiMHiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiniiiuiiiiiiiiiiiMniiiiiniiiiMiiiiiiiinHiiiiiiMiNiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiminiiiiiiinniii 
TO OUR FRIENDS:— 
In presenting this, our 1939 catalogue, we desire to show you the results of our 
years of work, hut more particularly the results of the 1938 growing season. 
Our business was started with the idea that the market grower wanted seeds 
that would produce a crop of Highest Quality, Trueness to type, and a Good Yield. 
We have always worked with that thought in mind and the results have proven our 
point. More and more the Market Growers are coming to us for their seed supplies 
and their repeat orders prove that we are giving them the Quality Seeds that they 
demand. 
We pride ourselves on the work that we do to produce our seed. Anyone can 
grow seed; but it takes care, experience, time and proper equipment to produce Quality 
Seed. We have made it a rule never to sell seed that we would not plant ourselves.We 
give our personal supervision to every step in the growing, harvesting, cutting, wash¬ 
ing, drying and milling of the seed. Every care is taken to see that only the finest 
melons are cut for our seed, and after the seed is saved, every precaution is exer¬ 
cised to be certain that there is no mixture. 
There are several steps that are required to produce Quality Seed:— 
FIRST; All the seed that we plant is bred by us for our Stock Seed, sometimes 
we go back to single fruit and single plant selections. This requires 
several years to produce enough seed from a single plant for us to grow 
a crop of seed to sell. 
SECOND; When it comes time to harvest we go through the fields and select only 
the perfect melons. We select for Earliness, Uniformity, Trueness to 
Type and Quality. These melons are then piled for the Cutting Crews. 
Our melons are all cut by hand. In this way only can we know the in¬ 
terior quality of the melons. Every melon is inspected before the seed 
is taken out. They must meet our requirements. 
THIRD; We wash all our seed by hand in open wooden tanks, using clear water 
pumped from our wells. In this way we are sure that there can be no 
mixture of varieties. After the thorough washing the seed is placed on 
screens and the seed dried in the open air. All the time the seed is cLjr 
ing we keep stirring it to see that it drys evenly and thoi oughly. 
FOURTH; We put all the seed through our cleaning mills to take out all light, 
chaffy material. 
FIFTH; We make germination tests of every lot of seed so that we know how it 
will grow. Only high testing seed is sold by us. 
It is a pleasure to have our friends visit us during August and September, when 
we are harvesting our seeds. We hope that you may do so. 
We thank our friends for their past orders and hope that, by our service and 
quality, we may continue to serve them. 
Sincerely, 
H. D. GARWOOD SEED COMPANY 
Rocky Ford, Colorado 
January 2, 1939. 
