KILGORE’S BRED-RITE SEEDS ARE PROVED BY TEST 

Result of germination test with 100 cucumber seeds. In this test 97 seeds out of 100 germinated, 3 seeds did not. 
(97% germination) 
What Will Your Harvest Be? 
The answer to that question depends principally on 
the kind of seeds you plant. 
The Kilgore Seed Company’s Seed Testing Laboratory at 
Plant City and Experimental Farm at Palmetto, Florida, are a 
creat help in providing the right kind of seeds for Florida. 
The Kilgore Seed Company has had over thirty years’ experi- 
ence in Florida, studying the particular seed requirements of 
Florida growers. “The Kilgore seed-growing fields are located 
in the north and west, not in Florida.” They are thoroughly 
inspected each summer by an experienced member of The Kil- 
gore organization for freedom from disease and trueness to 
type. In this way, Florida growers are absolutely certain that 
Kilgore’s Bred-Rite seeds are grown under proper conditions 
and that all off-type plants are destroyed before flowering and 
seeding. 
A seed testing laboratory at Plant City, Fla., to insure proper 
germination, and an experimental farm at Palmetto, Fla., to 
insure purity of type and adaptability, to select stock seed, and 
to test, develop and improve new varieties, are now being main- 
tained by the Kilgore Seed Company. A sample of every stock 
of vegetable, flower and field crop seeds Kilgore sells is tested 
at frequent intervals in a germinating apparatus, and the num- 
ber of seeds which germinate out of 100 seeds tested is recorded. 
Any stock of seed which is found to be low in germination is 
withdrawn from sale from all of Kilgore’s twelve Florida stores 
and mail order department, and is discarded. 
Similar samples of different stocks of seeds are planted from 
time to time on the Kilgore Experimental Farm, at Palmetto, 
Fla. In addition, there also are included in our trials, samples 
from other seed dealers and seed growers to compare with Kil- 
gore stocks. This shows just how Kilgore’s strains and vari- 
eties compare in earliness, yield, uniformity, trueness to type 
and adaptability with others growing side by side under identi- 
cally the same conditions in Florida. It also enables the com- 
pany to discover and develop new or improved stocks and yari- 
eties of distinct merit for Florida conditions, which we offer 
to our customers as soon as a supply of seeds can be produced. 
Modern, scientific breeding methods are employed both in 
maintaining and improving seed stocks. New products of our 
breeding program are carefully tested under Florida conditions, 
and superior stocks are then sent to our seed production fields 
in the north and west. Careful notes are kept of all our experi- 
mental farm results which enable us to check up with the con- 
stant improvements which are being made in standard varieties 
of vegetables. Our principal objective in all of this work is to 
breed, develop or select strains and varieties of vegetable seeds 
in Florida in order that we may offer our customers seeds adapt- 
ed to Florida growing conditions, which conditions differ mater- 
ially from those found elsewhere in the United States. The 
company has employed the services of a well trained and exper- 
ienced plant breeder who supervises all of this work. 
What more could be done to provide good seeds for the Flor- 
ida grower? We know what our seeds will do under Florida 
conditions because we prove them in Florida. Kilgore’s “Bred- 
Rite” vegetable, flower and field crop seeds are proved seeds 
and are the best that money can buy. Why plant less than the 
best? 
You have a cordial invitation to inspect Kilgore’s seed testing 
laboratory at Plant City, and Kilgore’s experimental farm at 
Palmetto, Florida. Just call at the Kilgore Seed Company’s 
store in Palmetto, and a Kilgore employee will guide you over 
the farm, and explain what is being done by this pioneer Florida 
Seed Company to provide Florida growers with better seeds. 


General Offices and Mail Order Department, Plant City, Florida a7 
