SOW THE SEEDS OF SUCCESS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5503, 22 June 1917, Page 1

SOW THE SEEDS OF SUCCESS.

At the recent Winter Show, hold at Palmerston North, the firm of F. 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 lino assortment of splendid specimens of practically all the prinaipal vegetables, also turnips, swedes, mangels, and other farm crops. Included ill the display there are some especially fine samples of Cooper's Giant Yellow Champion Carrot, Matchless White Carrot, and Improved Loug Red Mangel. Cooper’s mangel seeds last season in the trials made by the Department of Agriculture at Moumahaki had the distinction of showing the highest yield per acre. These trials included seeds sent fiom the principal seed firms in the world—English, Continental and Colonial. The full report is given in the Journal of Agriculture, 21st August, 1916. The crop from Cooper’s specially a .'looted seed 71 tons per acie; the other competitors’ mangels cropped from 31 tons per acre upwards. This firm is th c largest growcis aud handlers of peas, vegetable seeds, and also mangels, carrots, swedes, rape, aud general seeds in the Southern Hemisphere. The extent of the business may he gauged by the fact that they require to sow each season iu New Zealand over 3,000 acres of land exclusively for seed purposes. These quantities of Cooper’s seeds sold each season are sullicient to sow over a quarter of million acres of land, and these quantities are increasing steadily each season. One of tl o mottos of the linn is —“ Once a buyer always a buyer.” The ollioials of the Department of Agiiculturo arc doing good work in drawing attention to the necesuty of fanners producing the utmost from their land, and iu this connection that it is essential to sow only the best seeds of selected strains :—that is quality ” seeds as distinct from socallcd cheap ’’ seeds. Coopci’s seeds are grown from pedigree stocks selected by years of patient work. Every field is inspected by them selves. Many of their speeid strains have been selected from a single plant which has proved by actual test to be of hardier constitution and superior in crop to the usual strains. Their seeds are thoroughly redressed aud cleaned by special machinery. Alt Cooper’s seeds are tested for germination by the New Zealand Department of Agrieulturo, and also by their own independent tests ; aud nothing is aliowod to go out uutil these tests have proved satisfactory. Cooper's ' seeds aro stocked by the principal merchants in all parts of New Zealand, both in packets aud iu hulk, hut it is necessary iu be sure that you really get Cooper’s Seeds—“ The Seeds of Success. ’’ *