

Milford, Connecticut 

Sheboygan, Wisconsin 


N Milford, Connecticut, eighty years ago, Everett B. Clark 
started in the business of growing vegetable seeds on the 
farm pictured below. At about the same time, N. B. Keeney 
started in the seed business at Le Roy, New York, and John H. 
Allen, likewise, at Picton, Ontario, Canada. Until 1927 these 
three concerns developed separately, but in that year joined 
forces under the present name of Associated Seed Growers, Inc. 
Since then the Jerome B. Rice Seed Co., of Cambridge, N: Y., 
dating back to 1832, has also been included. 
The principal business of each of these four companies—now 
consolidated—has been the breeding and growing of dependable 
strains of vegetable seeds. Although this business started, and. 
now has its headquarters, in the East, most of the seed is grown 
in the West. At the present time, in addition to the many 
thousands of acres planted in our seed production, we have 
more than 1000 acres devoted exclusively to breeding work. 
Before dependable seed can be grown, a dependable parent 
stock is essential. In order to ensure the quality of our planting 
stocks and to improve them by the origination of new varieties, 
we maintain an extensive Department of Research and Breeding. 
Asgrow breeding stations are operated in eight different sec- 
tions of the country, because work on the different vegetables 
must be done in sections where those vegetables can be most 
ASGROW PEA SEED CROPS ARE GROWN IN THE HIGH 
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