44 ASSOCIATED SEEDS, INC. 


Our plant-breeding station at Robstown, Texas 
Better strains for southern farmers 
The Asgrow program of development 
The basis of our business is to provide our customers with the best avail- 
able varieties and strains of the crops they desire to grow. Accordingly 
we are in constant touch and friendly co-operation with the Texas Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station, where many of the more modern varieties 
described in this catalog have been developed, and which we are now 
able to offer commercially. 
In addition we maintain our own extensive breeding station at Robstown, 
pictured above, where a long-range development program of plant crossing, 
selection and testing is being carried on. ‘The work at this station is 
directed not only to the production of new varieties intended for definite 
requirements, such as disease-resistance or adaptation, but also to the 
purification of stocks of standard types and the maintenance of quality 
at a high level. Our customers are always very welcome at the Robstown 
breeding station so that they may see for themselves what we are doing 
to enable Texas farmers to grow better crops. 
