What Will Your Harvest Be? 
The answer to that question depends principally on 
the kind of seeds you plant. 
Kilgore’s Bred-Rite Seeds Are Bred and Developed in Florida for Florida. 
Partial view of Experimental Farm at Bradenton, Florida, 
showing single plant selections of pepper plants in cloth 
covered cages to produce pure line stock seed. 
Samples of different stocks of Kilgore seeds are planted from 
time to time on an Experimental Farm, at Bradenton, Fla. In 
addition, there also are included in thesé trials, samples from 
other seed dealers and seed growers to compare with Kilgore 
stocks. This shows just how Kilgore’s strains and varieties com- 
pare in earliness, yield, uniformity, trueness to type and 
adaptability with others growing side by side under identically 
the same conditions in Florida. It also enables the company 
to discover and develop new or improved stocks and varieties 
of distinct merit for Florida conditions, which we offer to our 
customers as soon as a supply of seeds can be produced. Modern, 
scientific breeding methods are employed both in maintaining 
and improving seed stocks. New products are carefully tested 
under Florida conditions, and superior stocks are then sent to 
our seed production fields in the north and west. Careful notes 
are kept on all experimental farm results which enable us 
to check up with the constant improvements which are being 
made in standard varieties of vegetables. Our principal ob- 
jective is to breed, develop or select strains and varieties of 
vegetable seeds in Florida in order that we may offer our cus- 
tomers seeds adapted to Florida growing conditions, which 
differ materially from those found elsewhere in the United 
States. A well trained and experienced plant breeder super- 
vises this work. 
In addition, the Kilgore Seed Company personnel is in con- 
stant contact with the scientific research workers of the main 
Florida Agricultural Experiment Station at Gainesville, Fla., 
and with the many sub-experiment stations and field labora- 
tories throughout the state where plant pathologists, horti- 
culturists and plant breeders are doing a splendid work in 
developing new and improved vegetable varieties especially 
adapted to the climate and growing conditions of Florida, 
which we introduce to Florida growers as soon as available. 
The aim of these experiment station workers and our aim is 
to provide the Florida grower with the very best, high vitality, 
disease-free seeds, of varieties and strains especially adapted 
to Florida growing conditions. 
What more could be done to provide good seeds for the 
Florida grower? We know what our seeds will do under Florida 
conditions because they are developed and proven in Florida. 
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High Vitality Seed Must Be Planted To Secure A Good Stand 
Kilgore’s vegetable seeds are air-conditioned and tested. This means 
higher vitality, better germination and stronger plants. 
The Kilgore Seed Company, the leader in all new things pertaining to seeds, has installed in its central warehouse at 
Plant City, Florida, the most up-to-date dehumidifying machinery in order to maintain high vitality in all Kilgore seeds. 
Surplus seed supplies in our stores are also kept in specially constructed dry rooms where the humidity is maintained 
at a uniformly low degree by use of chemicals. 
In addition to keeping our seeds in artificially dried store-rooms, we have one of the most up-to-date seed testing 
laboratories, where samples of all of our seed stocks are tested at regular intervals to further insure our customers 
against planting low vitality seeds. In our laboratory, tests are made every six weeks of all seed stocks in our ware- 
house, mail order department and fourteen Florida stores. We know at all times the correct germination of all seed 
stocks we have on hand. If any seed stocks are found to be dropping in germination they are immediately removed from 
our warehouse and stores and are destroyed. 
We are taking all these precautions and giving our customers this extra service without any additional cost, in order 
to provide in Kilgore’s Bred-Rite seeds the best that money can buy. 
This is why we say 
FOR BEST RESULTS USE 
BRED-RITE 
SEEDS 
TRADE MARK 
KILGORE’S FLORIDA STORES: Plant City, Belle Glade, Fort Myers, Gainesville, Homestead, Miami, 
Ocala, Pahokee, Palmetto, Pompano Beach, Sanford, Vero Beach, Wauchula, West Palm _ Beach. 
