COOPER’S SEEDS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 11 July 1917, Page 5

COOPER’S SEEDS.

“THE SEEDS OF SUCCESS.” At the Winter Show held at Hawera, the firm of F. COOPER LTD., of Wellington, Blenheim, Christchurch, Etc. had a magni|icent display of the produce of Cooper’s Seeds. A feature of the display is the wonderfully fine assortment of splendid specimens of practically all the principal vegetables and also Turnips, Swedes, Mangels, Lucerne, Sudan Grass and all the principal farm crops. Referring to Messrs Cooper’s exhibit at the recent Palmerston North Winter Show, the “Evening Post” says: “For many years past Messrs Cooper’s have demonstrated that New Zealand grown seed is far and away superior to the imported article. It is fresher and of stronger germinating power, and being thoroughly acclimatized, is more suited to the New Zealand climatic conditions than imported seed can be. On the firm’s stand were to be seen beautiful specimens of Cooper’s Long Red Mangel and Cooper’s. Jersey Queen, unquestionably the best in the Show. On the Government stand in the same hall was to be seen a big display of roots grown from Cooper’s Seeds, and compared with those from other firms and imported strains the specimens from Cooper’s Seeds are miles ahead.” The leading prize-takers at this Show in the Vegetable Root Classes were Mr T. Webb, Palmerston (who secured 29 prises); Mr. A. Passey, Pohangina; Mr. A. Webb, Hastings, and Mr. Woolford, Rongotea. All these growers used Cooper’s Seeds almost exclusively. A number of the other leading prizetakers were also successful with the produce of Cooper’s Seeds. In the Government trials reported in the “Journal of Agriculture,” August 21. 1916, Mangels grown from Cooper's specially selected seeds cropped 71 tons per acre and beat all other competitors. The extent of the business of this firm may be gauged by the fact that they require to sow each season in New Zealand alone, over 3000 acres of land evclusively for seed purposes. All of Cooper’s Seeds are tested for germination by the New Zealand Department of Agriculture and also by their own independent tests, and nothing is allowed to go out until these tests prove satisfactory. Cooper’s Seeds are stocked in bulk and in packets by the principal merchants and seedsmen in all parts of New Zealand, but it is necessary to be sure that you really obtain Cooper’s Seeds —The “Seeds of Success.”