Burrell's Super Select Tomato Seed Tomatoes
My tomato seed grown here at Rocky Ford has won an excellent reputation all over the U. S. for quality and yield. Our elevation is over 4,000 feet and conditions ideal for growing of fine tomato seeds. The demand for this grade of seed (Super Select) has grown, until now nearly every tomato grower is looking for and buying the best he can find. To meet this demand I am planting the finest possible selection of stock seeds saved from plots grown from line bred seeds and from this very finest of the product from the earliest fruits I am saving Super Select tomato seeds. You know an ounce under favorable conditions will produce nearly, if not quite, enough plants to set an acre, and that this Super Select seed only adds one or two dollars per thousand to the cost of the plants, compared to plant grown from ordinary seed as a gift. The tomatoes from which this seed was saved were ripening when the price of tomatoes was 20c to 25c per pound, from which you will see that only 20 to 30 pounds of tomatoes at that time would have been required to pay for th seed necessary to grow the plants to set an acre. I only offer this Super Select Tomato seed from three varieties. The price of each is as follows: (50c per pkt.) ($1.50 per oz.) ($5.00 per oz.) ($18.00 per ¼ lb.) ($70.00 per lb.) The varieties are as follows: Burrell's Super Select Bonny Best. Burrell's Super Select Early Jewell. Burrell's Super Select Earliana. Price-(50c per pkt.) ($1.50 per ¼ oz.) ($5.00 per oz.) ($18.00 per ¼ lb.) ($7.00 per lb.);. Postpaid by insured mail. My Special Bonny Best Tomatoes yielded 30 tons 839 pounds on one acre, which at canning factory prices of $12.00 per ton equaled $365.03 per acre at canning factory prices. My Special Earliana Tomatoes yielded 23 ton 350 pounds per acre or $278.10 per acre, from which you can readily see that the price of my Super Select seed is low even when compared with canning factory prices when the yield per acre is taken into consideration. How much more is it really worth when the early market for fine quality is considered? I hope every tomato grower who gets my catalog will plant some of this seed and compare results with the best they have been planting and write me what they were.
Originally listed in: 1927 Burrell's Seed Catalog
My tomato seed grown here at Rocky Ford has won an excellent reputation all over the U. S. for quality and yield. Our elevation is over 4,000 feet and conditions ideal for growing of fine tomato seeds. The demand for this grade of seed (Super Select) has grown, until now nearly every tomato grower is looking for and buying the best he can find. To meet this demand I am planting the finest possible selection of stock seeds saved from plots grown from line bred seeds and from this very finest of the product from the earliest fruits I am saving Super Select tomato seeds. You know an ounce under favorable conditions will produce nearly, if not quite, enough plants to set an acre, and that this Super Select seed only adds one or two dollars per thousand to the cost of the plants, compared to plant grown from ordinary seed as a gift. The tomatoes from which this seed was saved were ripening when the price of tomatoes was 20c to 25c per pound, from which you will see that only 20 to 30 pounds of tomatoes at that time would have been required to pay for th seed necessary to grow the plants to set an acre. I only offer this Super Select Tomato seed from three varieties. The price of each is as follows: (50c per pkt.) ($1.50 per oz.) ($5.00 per oz.) ($18.00 per ¼ lb.) ($70.00 per lb.) The varieties are as follows: Burrell's Super Select Bonny Best. Burrell's Super Select Early Jewell. Burrell's Super Select Earliana. Price-(50c per pkt.) ($1.50 per ¼ oz.) ($5.00 per oz.) ($18.00 per ¼ lb.) ($7.00 per lb.);. Postpaid by insured mail. My Special Bonny Best Tomatoes yielded 30 tons 839 pounds on one acre, which at canning factory prices of $12.00 per ton equaled $365.03 per acre at canning factory prices. My Special Earliana Tomatoes yielded 23 ton 350 pounds per acre or $278.10 per acre, from which you can readily see that the price of my Super Select seed is low even when compared with canning factory prices when the yield per acre is taken into consideration. How much more is it really worth when the early market for fine quality is considered? I hope every tomato grower who gets my catalog will plant some of this seed and compare results with the best they have been planting and write me what they were.
Originally listed in: 1927 Burrell's Seed Catalog