in the soil. They form molds. They sap the life out of sprouting 
seeds or kill the tender seedling plant. This has been observed on 
corn and small grain. They were bigger plants. It was easier to see 
the damage taking place. Chemicals were found to check those 
diseases on corn and small grain. There is hardly a bushel of corn 
planted that has not been chemically protected. Many farmers treat 
their small grain too with Ceresan, but that is too strong for some 
grasses and clovers. 
Corn and Wheat and Oats are grasses just as Timothy, Red Top, 
etc., are grasses. It seems strange that we should protect seed of 
the biggest and strongest grasses while we let the small and weak 
grasses shift for themselves. We used to have to do that. There 
were no chemicals available that would kill these diseases without 
injuring the seed. 
Many Diseases Can Be Controlled 
This is not true today. Now we have chemicals that will protect 
these smaller grasses without injury to the seed. It works just as 
well on clovers and Alfalfas, Sudan, grain sorghums or any of the 
farm seeds excepting Oats. 
When you buy Gro-Coated farm seeds, you have the positive 
assurance that your seed is fully covered with the best available 
chemical to assure you of the best possible results from such seed. 
What Gro-Coating Does 
There is a constantly increasing flood of evidence to prove that 
it pays to plant Gro-Coated seeds. Here are a few of the results of 
planting chemically treated seeds as compared with non-treated seeds. 
These figures show the percentage of increased stands. The seed 
and soil, the time and method of seeding, weather and all conditions 
were identical. The only difference was that part of the seed was 
treated and part not. Note the astonishing difference in some of these 
tests. You will note that in Alfalfa there was 158% increase in stands 
That means counting the stand of untreated seed at 100 that the 
treated seed was 258. That means two and a half times as many 
plants per square foot or per acre simply by Gro-Coating the seed. 
In some crops the increase is not so great, although the more re- 
ports we get and the more experiments that are made, the more out- 
standing the results of Gro-Coating becomes. 
