SOW "THE SEEDS OF SUCCESS"

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3117, 22 June 1917, Page 6

SOW "THE SEEDS OF SUCCESS"

At the recent Winter Show held at ' Palmerston North the iirm of P. COOPER, LTD., of Wellington, Blenheim, Christchurch, etc., had a magnificent display of the produce of "The Seeds of Success"—Cooper's Seeds. A feature of the display is the wonderfully fine, assortment of splendid specimens of practically all the principal vegetables, also turnips, swedes, mangels, and other 'farm crops. . Included in the display thero are some especially fine samples of Cooper's Giant Yellow Champion Carrot, Matchless White Carrot, and Improved Red Mangel. Cooper's Mangel seeds last season in the trials made by the Department of Agriculture at Jfou•mahaki had the distinction of showing the highest yield per acre. These trial's included seeds sent from the principal seed firms in tho world—English, Continental, and Colonial. The full report is given in the "Journal of Agriculture," August 21, iniGr The crop from Cooper's specially-selected seed. 71 tons rner acre; the other competitors' mangels cropped from 31 tons per aero upwards. .Tin's firm are tho largest growers and [handlers of peas, vegetable seeds, and iilso mangels, carrots, turnips, swedes, rape, and general seeds in the Southern Hemisphere. The extent of the business may be gauged by the fact that they require to sow each season in New Zealand over 3000 acres of land exclusively for seed purposes. The quantities nf Cooper's Seeds sold each season aro sufficient to sow over a, quarter of a million acres of land, and these quantities are increasing steadily each season. One of tho niottos of the firm is—"Once a buyer, always a buyer." The officials of _ tho Department of Agriculture are doing good work in drawing attention to the necessity of farmers producing the utmost from their land, and in this connection it is essential to sow only the best seeds of selected strains—that is "quality" seeds, as distinct from socalled "cheap" seeds. Cooper's Seeds are grown from pedigreo stocks selected by years of patient work. Every field is inspected by .themselves. Many of their special strains have been selected from a single plant, which has proved by actual test to bt» of hanlieu constitution and superior in crop to the usual strains. Their seeds aro thoroughly redressed and cleaned by special machinery. AM Cooper's Seeds are tested for germination by the Jf.Z. Department of Agriculture, am! also by their own independent tests; and nothing is allowed to Ro out until these test? have proved satisfactory. Cooper's Seeds aro stocked by the principal merchnnts in all parts "t few Zealand both in packets and in, rmiK. but it is necessary to he sure that l°", ""f-ljy get Cooper's Seeds-'The heeds of Success."-G.4 (By Arrangement.)