As a part of its regular program, your Vegetable 
Seed Service offers the types and strains that are 
most popular. 
climates of some parts of Southern States 
territory. Therefore, your cooperative 
seedsmen look for and choose for your use 
the seeds with the ability to grow and 
produce top quality vegetables in the 
Southern States vegetable seed stocks are pro- 
duced under the most up-to-date methods avail- 
able. Air crop dusting is routine. 
climate and under the conditions which 
exist in your area. 
Southern States has over 1,000 acres 
ot vegetable seed production fields under 
contract in Idaho and California, on which 
every type of vegetable seed is grown and 
developed. Southern States has ''crossed"’ 
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In the Far West, Southern States obtains its supply 
of cucumber seeds which are superior in vitality 
and yielding ability. 
the continent to develop these seed 
varieties in the West for several reasons. 
These western states are relatively free 
of disease. Then, too, production is more 
economical in those areas and western 
growers are more experienced in up-to- 
date breeding and growing methods than 
Test trials are maintained year after year to select 
the strains best adapted to Southern States operat- 
ing territory. 
SOUTHERN STATES COOPERATIVE 
