Your cooperative is searching constantly for new 
and better varieties that measure up to the highest 
quality standards you desire. 
eastern growers. 
Southern States vegetable seeds are 
true-to-type, high-yielding, adapted strains 
when they are produced for members. But 
Southern States service does not end with 
the growing and selection of quality seed. 
Your cooperative also treats all vegetable 
seed against seed- and soil-borne diseases 
according to recommendations of the agri- 
cultural experiment stations in your area. 
This treatment often rneans the difference 
between a profitable crop and a failure. 
Southern States seedsmen traveled many 
thousands of miles in 1952—8700 on one 
trip alone—to inspect western vegetable 
seed trial and production fields. This in- 
spection included a check on plant vigor, 
stand, yield, moisture content, plant size 
and the frequency of ''volunteer'’ plants 
This field of Southern States vegetable seeds is 
being properly irrigated to insure high and eco- 
nomical production.. 
Richmond, Virginia 
among the crops. This last named check 
indicates how carefully growers prepare 
the seedbed and maintain their production 
tields during the season. 
Cooperative seedsmen search constantly 
for new and better varieties. This does not 
mean that present, varieties shown in this 
handbook are not of top quality. They are. 
But your cooperative never stops looking 
for better ones. 
Adapted Hybrid Sweet Corn for Southern States 
patrons has been bred from selected strains of 
known and superior parentage such as lochief. 
When a new seed variety, for instance, 
is made available to growers by the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture Breeding Lab- 
oratory in Charleston, S. C., Southern 
States immediately obtains a quantity of 
these seeds and sends them to the West 
for testing. Tests are conducted for several 
years. At the same time, if the seed looks 
promising, the seed stock is built up so 
that when the new variety is finally proven 
and released by the government, Southern 
States has it ready for distribution to 
patrons. 
