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. 
This is why The Kilgore Seed Co. is referred to as ‘Florida’s Leading Seedsmen.” 
Partial view of Experimental Farm and Breeding Station at Bradenton, Florida. 
Samples of different stocks of Kilgore seeds are planted 
from time to time on an Experimental Farm, at Braden- 
ton, Florida. In addition, there also are included in 
these trials, samples from other seed dealers and seed 
growers to compare with Kilgore stocks. This shows 
just how Kilgore’s strains and varieties compare in 
earliness, yield, uniformity, trueness to type and adapt- 
ability with others growing side by side under iden- 
tically the same conditions in Florida. It also enables 
the company to develop new or improved 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 em- 
ployed both in maintaining and improving seed stocks. 
New products are carefully tested under Florida con- 
ditions, 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 objective is to breed, develop or select 
strains and varieties of vegetable seeds adapted to 
Florida growing conditions, which differ materially 
from those found elsewhere in the United States. A 
well trained and experienced plant breeder supervises 
this work. 
In addition, the Kilgore Seed Company personnel is 
in constant contact with the scientific research workers 
of the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station and 
field laboratories throughout the state where plant 
pathologists, horticulturists and plant breeders are 
doing a splendid work in developing new and im- 
proved vegetable varieties especially adapted to the 
climate and growing conditions of Florida, which we 
introduce to Florida growers as soon as available. 
HIGH VITALITY SEED MUST BE PLANTED TO SECURE A GOOD CROP 
Kilgore’s vegetable seeds are air-conditioned and tested. 
This means higher vitality, better germination and stronger plants. 
The Kilgore Seed Company, has in its central ware- 
house in Plant City, Florida, the most up-to-date de- 
humidifying machinery in order to maintain high 
vitality in all Kilgore seed. Surplus seed supplies in 
our stores are also kept in specially constructed dry 
rooms where the humidity is maintained at a uni- 
formly low degree. 
We are now putting up certain kinds of vegetable 
seeds which naturally lose their germination rather 
rapidly, such as celery, eggplant, pepper and hybrid 
onion, in special sealed air-tight and moisture-proof, 
one-pound containers after the seed has been treated 
with a seed protectant and the moisture content of the 
seed has been artificially reduced by a special process. 
The sealed cans should be opened only as needed for 
planting in order to retain the vitality of the seed until 
planted. If kept in unopened cans the seed will retain 
its vigor and germination even under Florida con- 
ditions of high humidity and temperature. 
In addition to keeping our seeds in artificially dried 
storerooms, we have a seed testing laboratory where 
samples of all our seed stocks are tested at regular 
intervals to further insure our customers against plant- 
ing low vitality seeds. In our seed testing laboratory, 
tests are made every six weeks of all seed stocks in our 
warehouse, mail order department and fourteen Florida 
stores. We know at all times the correct germination 
of all seed we have on hand. If any seed stocks are 
found to be dropping in germination they are im- 
mediately 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. Play safe and get your 
seed from the Kilgore Seed Company, Florida’s leading 
seedsmen. 
34 KILGORE’S FLORIDA STORES: Plant City, Belle Glade, Fort Myers, Gainesville, Homestead, Miami, 
