MESSRS BARRAUD & ABRAHAM'S SEEDS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 588, 29 December 1897, Page 2

MESSRS BARRAUD & ABRAHAM'S SEEDS.

(Extract from Bangitikei Advocate, Saturday, November 21, 1807. We have previously drawn attention to the care exercised by Messrs Barraud and Abraham in testing the quality of seeds before offering them for sale. They consider, and rightly too, that this part of agriculture, which it is their business to perform, is the one of the greatest of the whole series. The ploughing, the harrowing, the sowing is, to a great degree, so much labor lor . if proper care lias not been taken in the selection of a good sample of seed, the result being disappointment and loss. By careful purchasing from glowers of repute, examination of samples by experts, and lastly, by actual germinating tests, the firm take every possible precaution to place before their customers a quality of seeds of the highest produeive value, which cannot fail, other conditions being favorable, to bring forth a good crop to reward the labor of the tiller. Yesterday we had an opportunity of seeing at the firm's Fielding offices the result of a germinating test of six samples of turnip seed, and one of rape, which gave tests as follows : 1. Green top yellow Aberdeen, 08 per cent. 2. l’urple top yellow Aberdeen, 07 per cent. 0. l’urple top mammoth, 00 per cent. 1. Champion swede, 01 per cent. 5. Sherwing swede, 88 per cent. (1. Fostertou llybrcd, 00 per cent. 7. Broad Essex rape, 100 per cent. These the firm now offer their customers with confidence, knowing their high productive quality. It will be noticed that every single seed of tho Broad Essex rape germinated, the yellow Aberdeen w ith a percentage ol' 08 coining next. Altogether an excellent result cannot fail to prove an excellent ivcomiuouda ion to farmers about to sow any of the varieties mentioned.