Foreword 


HE PURPOSE of this handbook is to help patrons 
secure more easily and with greater certainty Better 
Living Through Better Eating and Better Income, re- 
gardless of whether they raise vegetables in gardens for home 
use or on a commercial scale for sale. In either case, there is 
no substitute for good seed—seed that is adapted to the 
conditions under which it is to grow, of the right variety, 
origin and breeding, tested and found to be high in germina- 
tion and purity and low in weed-seed content, treated by 
effective methods to help control seed- and soil-borne dis- 
eases, and guaranteed to be as represented. Only with such 
seed do patrons secure the greatest value-in-use. 
In this handbook Southern States Cooperative gives infor- 
mation not only regarding the choice and use of vegetable 
seed but also regarding the cooperative purchasing of related 
items, the control of insect pests and diseases, success with 
lawns, and service under the cooperative program. 
The recommendations given in this publication are in 
keeping with those of the State Agricultural Colleges of 
Southern States operating territory and, therefore, should 
prove most useful and helpful in securing Better Living 
Through Better Eating and Better Income. 
IME ORG 
Director of Distribution 
Southern States Cooperative 
Richmond, Virginia 
SIGNED, 


