Foreword 
HIS Descriptive Catalogue of Field, Pasture, Grass and Soil Improvement Crops 
ae published in response to many requests and suggestions from customers and 
friends who feel the need of a handbook comparable to the well-known Asgrow 
Descriptive Catalogue of Vegetables. In the present compilation we have endeavored 
to be equally accurate and equally concise, basing our descriptions and data on 
widely extended observations and records in the territory we serve, which includes 
the dry land, range land, irrigated and greater rainfall areas of Texas. 
Associated Seed Growers, Inc., the parent company with which we are affiliated, 
has built up over the better part of a century its fame for vegetable seed stocks of 
high quality, including, in many cases, strains adapted to the soil and climatic condi- 
tions of particular areas, products of the eight Asgrow breeding stations located 
in different parts of the country. 
On the distribution of such Asgrow Seeds in southern Texas our business was 
founded. It has grown to serve a still greater area and to include seeds of the crops 
herein described, which in recent years have been extensively distributed under 
the brand names of Asgrow and Texgrow from our warehouses in San Antonio, Robs- 
town and Weslaco. Also at Robstown is our breeding station, under the supervision 
of a competent, technically qualified plant breeder where a continuous program is 
conducted in developing, studying and testing various strains of vegetables and field 
crops for adaptability, disease-resistance and profitable growing in this region. 
A modern and complete processing plant forms part of our main warehouse in 
San Antonio. It includes the latest, improved types of cleaning, grading and allied 
equipment. Great care is taken to prevent mechanical mixtures, and in every way 
to merit the confidence of growers in Asgrow and Texgrow seeds. A seed treating 
room and a cold storage room, for the maintenance of germination, are also part 
of our facilities. 
In the first edition of such a catalogue as this it is almost inevitable that there 
should be incompleteness, or even errors. Comments and suggestions toward ena- 
bling it to render greater service will be highly appreciated. 
ASSOCIATED SEEDS, INC. 
San Antonio, Texas 
December 1, 1944 
