Charles H. Manning, Sr. moved to Roy, Washington. Here he erected his first 
large, four-story cone-drying kiln and seed extractory and it is on this very site that 
our present-day modern seed extractory is located. C. H. Manning, Sr. died in 1910. 
The three sons carried on the business with W. P. Manning as president until 1949 
when his son, F. E. Manning, became the President and General Manager. Down 
through the years all our processes from cone gathering to seed shipping have steadily 
improved until today the Manning Seed Company is recognized as an outstanding 
leader in the forest tree seed industry. 
Over the years it has become more apparent that, if our customers, both foreign 
and domestic, were to obtain the maximum yield from the seed planted, that more 
specific data was needed regarding growing conditions of the forests from which the 
cones were collected. It has long been the goal of the Manning Seed Company to fill 
this need. In 1949 the Company set up an identification system by which all seed lots 
are accurately identified as to the collection source. Today’s foresters know the 
importance of seed origin for the success of current and future reforestation programs. 
Manning Seed Company plant 
at Roy, Washington, 1954. 
