Breeding or parentage is just as important to growers of vegetable crops as to livestock 
producers. In the plant world, as in the animal world, “blood will tell” and “like begets 
like.” Spinach bred for blight resistance, hybrid corn such as Golden Cross Bantam and 
Stowell’s Evergreen Cross, and Hale’s Best Cantaloupes Nos. 36 and 936 are all superior 
because of superior breeding or parentage. 
High Germination and Purity and Low Weed-Seed Content 
A view of a section of Southern States new and modern, fully equipped, seed-testing laboratory, 
located in the Southern States Building, Richmond, Virginia. Through its use, patrons are insured of 
securing high quality vegetable seeds. 
It is needless to say that vegetable seeds should be high in germination and purity and 
low in weed-seed content. Reports of state inspection officials show that seed offered by 
Southern States ranks very high in these 
respects. It is well to keep in mind, however, 
that vegetable seed may be superior in germi- 
nation and purity and low in weed-seed con- 
tent and yet be of little value from the 
standpoint of production because of inferior- 
ity in adaptation, freedom from disease, 
origin or parentage. 
Southern States tests its vegetable seeds 
in its own modern seed-testing laboratory 
and thus insures patrons of seed unsurpassed 
in these points. 
Treated to Control Diseases 
Southern States vegetable seeds are pre- 
treated for the control of seed and soil-borne 
diseases. Recommendations of State Agri- 
cultural Experiment Stations are followed. 
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This. modern seed-treating equipment operated 
by trained personnel treats vegetable seeds for 
seed- and soil-borne diseases. 
SOUTHERN STATES COOPERATIVE 
