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HORTICULTURE 



June 12, 1909 



Seed Trade 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSO- 



CIATION. 



Watson S. Woodiuff, Orauge, Conn., 

 Pres. ; J. C. Robinson, Waterloo, Neb., 

 First Vlce-ries. ; C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, 

 O., Sec'v and Treas. Twenty-seventh an- 

 nual convention June 22-24, I'MO. at Clifton 

 House, Niagara Falls, Out. 



WHOLESALE SEEDSMEN'S 



LEAGUE. 



F. W. Bruggerhof, Pres.; Bumet Land- 

 reth, Sec'y. 



Canners' Convention. 



The publication of the report that 

 Atlantic City has been selected as the 

 place tor the next Canners' conven- 

 tion has been held back for many 

 weeks by HORTICULTURE as the 

 members of the executive committee 

 did not wish the fact made public 

 until negotiations under way with the 

 Hotel Association of Atlantic City 

 were concluded. 



Unless the Machinery and Supplies 

 Association reverses itself there will 

 be no exhibits at Atlantic City next 

 winter. This question was put to the 

 Association at its final meeting at 

 Louisville last winter, and it was de- 

 cided bv an overwhelming majority to 

 have no exhibits. A small minority 

 objected and has been conducting a 

 propaganda with the view of bringing 

 about a reversal, but with little pros- 

 pects of success. However, only ac- 

 complished facts are certainties, and 

 the kicKers may win out. 



Back of this action of the Machinery 

 and Supplies Association is a principle 

 involved. For several years a small 

 number of leading canners have .with- 

 out even submitting the proposition 

 to a vote of their own association, 

 levied special tax on all the associa- 

 tion in the form of an admission fee 

 to the Machinery Hall, and the Ma- 

 chinery and Supplies Association who 

 paid tor the hall, light, heat and were 

 at heavy expense in fitting up attrac- 

 tive display booths, have been com- 

 pelled to pay this tax into the treasury 

 of the National Canners' Association 

 to get into the building they had rent- 

 ed and to see their own show. The great 

 expense of transporting heavy machin- 

 ery back and forth, the cost of in- 

 stalling and operating the same, the 

 booths and all other matters pertain- 

 ing to the exhibits were to attract the 

 canners, who were really the guests 

 of the Machinery and Supplies Asso-. 

 elation, and they have resented the 

 tax which has been levied upon them. 

 "When they entered a mild protest 

 they were told, in effect, that they 

 had no standing in court, that they 

 were tolerated only during good be- 

 havior, and that they had better pay 

 up and keep quiet. As most of them 

 are largely, many of them entirely, 

 dependent on the canners for business, 

 they submitted, but being convinced 

 that the comparatively few who have 

 assumed control of the canners' or- 

 ganization do not represent the main 

 body, they have decided to try it out, 

 and make no exhibit in 1910, being 

 satisfied that the machinery and sup- 

 plies display are the great attraction 

 to the large body of canners. Just 

 so long as they are dependent on the 

 canners for business tuey will have to 

 accept their dictum, but the old say- 



ing that nothing is ever settled un- 

 til it is settled right, will be found 

 to apply to this case as to all others. 



About ten years ago the leaders of 

 the Western Packers' Association vot- 

 ed to exclude the Machinery and Sup- 

 plies Association from their conven- 

 tions. How well they represented 

 their associates the sequel proved. 

 Their next annual convention was held 

 at Chicago. At the same time the At- 

 lantic States Packers' Association met 

 in Buffalo and cordially invited the 

 Machinery and Supply men to meet 

 with them, an invitation the latter 

 gladly accepted. The result was a 

 veritable frost for the Chicago conven- 

 tion, not a corporal's guard aside from 

 the leaders being present, while the 

 Buffalo meeting was a grand success, 

 members of the Western Association 

 being present in large numbers. That 

 ended the attempt of the Western As- 

 sociation to exclude the Machinery and 

 Supply men while the leaders for the 

 most part went into a state of "innocu- 

 ous desuetude." Will history repeat 



itself? . 



American Seed Trade Association. 



The forthcoming convention of the 

 American Seed Trade Association, of- 

 fers a very attractive program, and as 

 the place for the meeting is one of 

 the most attractive in the world, the 

 attendance should be large. The New 

 Clifton, which is to be headquarters, 

 is one of the most up-to-date and best 

 equipped hotels on the Continent, and 

 with good weather the convention of- 

 fers a most ideal outing. It will be the 

 first real relaxation for many since 

 last fall, and will be greatly appreci- 

 ated. While the rates may at first 

 thought seem high, it must be remem- 

 bered that these rates include meals, 

 and will in the end prove cheaper than 

 either of the recent conventions at 

 New York city or Detroit. 



Onion Seed Crop. 



Another week or splendid growing 

 weather has advanced crop prospects 

 greatly, and conditions at this time are 

 most promising. Good crops, harvest- 

 ed under favorable conditions, are 

 what both seed growers and seed mer- 

 chants are earnestly hoping for. The 

 reported shortage in the onion seed 

 crop is rather good news than other- 

 wise, as there is no single seed crop 

 which is such a burden to carry when 

 in surplus as onion seed. In money 

 value it mounts into high figures rap- 

 idly, while deterioration is quite as 

 rapid. A 50 per cent, crop means. more 

 actual clean profit to every one ex- 

 cept the growers, than a full one, and 

 even the growers are the gainers over 

 a period of years. Short crops enable 

 them to keep up their prices to good 

 paying figures, while even a small sur- 

 pltis is almost invariably followed by 

 reduced prices the following year. 



Notes. 



Fred H. Hunter has resigned his 

 position as manager of the Germain 

 Seed & Plant Co., Los Angeles, Cal., 

 and will take a much needed rest. 



The Iowa Seed Dealers' Association 

 met at Des Moines on June 1. The 

 Iowa seed law was discussed freely. 

 Officers were elected as follows: 

 President, C. N. Page: vice-president, 

 Henry Field: secretary, B. H. Adams, 

 Decorah; treasurer, J. T. Hamilton. 



Seattle, Wash. — Frank Stevens is 



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