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been supplying for over fifty years. Every year our guest book bulges 
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around. We'd like to have you visit us too (and incidentally, try our 


famous climate!), but in case you won't be able to come out our way 

this year, we would like you to see the way we work through the 
medium of the written records we make. 
First of all there is the growing crop in the field — judged and 
evaluated by production men with years of ‘‘know-how’”’ in the flower 
seed business. They know what you want—and make sure that you 
get it. Stock seed must pass inspection, germination is noted, plant 
behavior is checked, fields are inspected throughout the flowering 
season for trueness to color, habit and 
type. Field books are crammed with notes 
on the crop, and when Autumn comes 
around the production man says what to 
harvest, when, and how. No _ harvester 


ay ~; moves until the Master Tag is out, and not 
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the little tag that identifies it as part of a 
specific lot. When you’re handling more 

than a thousand different colors and vari- 






eties of seed, no precaution is too much trouble to 
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these varieties apart— we use color code, special tags, 
endless forms and records; check and recheck to make 
this so. 

Let’s look at the cleaning mill, where the threshed 
seed is received and a receipt given for its safe arrival thus far. Through as 
many as five machines the seed goes until it is clean as a whistle— and seed 






in any phase of cleaning is instantly identifiable here too, with compressed ZIM 
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air cleaning to prevent any mixing in the cleaning mill. 
Now we are ready to attach a warehouse tag, containing all the Master No, E1266 
formation and more, for samples are immediately taken and the germi- 
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ion recorded, The ‘'8”' in the circle, incidentally, means the crop year—in 

this example, 1948 crop. The first responsibility of the production man is 
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conscientious care, but the second is speed. When you place your contract 
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