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Vegetable Seed

In Short Supply

Large-scale vegetable gardener* are advised to plan now for needed supplies in 1*68.

Stocks of many vegetable seeds were depleted because of lack of rainfall this year, and marketing specialists at V.P.I. say vegetable growers who are planning foil operations for 1668 should start to stock certain supplies, including spray and dust materials, high

mixed fertilisers and nifcof

such seeds as dwarf wax beans, dwarf limaa, broccoli. Chines# cabbage, cauliflower, hybird aweet corn, kale, squash, spinach, tomatoe and several other vegetables are below those of tide

Virginia vegetable growers are especially interested in the supplies of hybird sweet corn, kale Cucumber, squash, spinach and tomatoe seed supplies. In general stocks of bybird sweet corn art only 61 per cent as large as they ware this season; kale, 61 percent cucumbers, 60 percent; squash for summer, 85 percent; squash for winter, 70 percent; spinach, 71 percent; and tomatoes, 84 percent. . Stocks of a fens- vegetable eeed are in adequate supply. These include green beanjL collards, smooth and wrinkled peas, peppers turnips, and rutabagas. -

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