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FOREWORD 
{t is with much pride and pleasure that we present this brochure com- 
memorating our 75th anniversary in the continuous service of producing peas, 
beans, and corn for the seed, vegetable marketing and food processing trade. 
In the year 1876, two brothers, Everett E. and Austin L. Rogers founded 
the Rogers Bros. Seed Co., in the town of Cape Vincent in Jefferson County, 
New York, where pea and bean seed was grown commercially for the first time 
in the United States. 
The business in such capable hands grew in volume and prestige until it was 
necessary to look for greater growing areas. In 1902, a large and complete plant 
was built in Alpena, Michigan, where crops were good and production was 
stepped up. 
In 1911, the demand for these quality stocks had increased to the point 
where greater production was necessary. Expansion was made to the West, where 
a large and completely equipped plant was constructed in Idaho Falls, Idaho. 
Year by year, many plants have been constructed in Wyoming, Montana, 
Washington, Colorado and California, where acreage and climatic conditions 
best assure a crop. 
Trial and improvement grounds are strategically located, where diseases are 
studied and new varieties developed under our Research and Plant Breeding 
Department. Among our customers today are many whose patronage we have 
enjoyed almost from the foundation of the business. 
A new venture by our company in 1921 was the development of a sub- 
sidiary department for the manufacture of a new product—potato flour. We 
constructed a large plant for the production of potato flour in Idaho Falls, Idaho. 
This plant has operated successfully since then and the increased use of this 
product by bakers, meat packers, soup makers, etc., necessitated the construction 
of a still larger plant in the great potato producing area around Grand Forks, 
North Dakota, in the Red River Valley. 
Previous to the Second World War we had experimented in potato dehydra- 
tion. We were the only volume dehydrators of potatoes in this country. When 
the war developed, our facilities were called upon to deliver great quantities of 
dehydrated potato products. Since the close of the war these products have been 
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