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AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



Offlcer»— President. Cha«. N. Page, 

 Det Moines, la. ; lit vice-president, 

 Harry L. Holmes, Harrlsbnrg, Pa.; 

 tnd Tlce-presldent, Arthur B. Clark, 

 MlUord, Conn.; secretary and treas- 

 urer, C. B. KendeU Cleveland, O. ; as- 

 ■litant secretary, J. M. Ford, Ravenna, 

 O. Next convention at Cleveland, Ohio, 

 June 24-26, 181S. 



The thirty-first annual convention of 

 the American Seed Trade Association 

 will be held at the Hotel Statler, 

 Cleveland, Ohio, June 24, 25, 26, 1913. 



Opening Session, June 24th, 10 o'clock 

 A. M. 



Executive Sessions. 



Are Standards of Purity Practicable 

 in State Seed Laws? George S. Green 

 (Illinois Seed Co.), Chicago. 



Discussion — Seeds Grown Under Irri- 

 gation. Led by J. C. Robinson, Water- 

 loo, Neb. 



What the American Seed Trade Has 

 Accomplished. Albert McCullough (J. 

 M. McCullough's Sons Co.), Cincinnati, 

 Ohio. 



Cost and Overhead Expense. L. B. 

 McCausland (Ross Bros.). Wichita, 

 Kan. 



Intensified Farrfing. James J. Hill 

 (formerly President Great Northern 

 Railway), St. Paul, Minn. 



Wednesday Evening. 



Educative and Civic Influence of 

 School Garden Work. Miss Louise 

 Klein Miller, Curator Cleveland School 

 Gardens. (Illustrated with stereoptl- 

 con.) 



Social Features. 



Tuesday evening — President's re- 

 ception. 



Wednesday evening — Annual ban- 

 quet. 



Thursday afternoon — Trolley ride to 

 Storrs, Harrison Co.'s Nurseries, 

 Painesville, Ohio. 



Department Prejudices. 



The publication of the letter from J. 

 E. W. Tracy of the Department of 

 Agriculture at Washington, to R. & J. 

 Farquhar & Co., of Boston, has occa- 

 sioned considerable discussion and 

 called forth some pretty severe criti- 

 cisms of the way the Department la 



and for many years has been con- 

 ducted. 



For a long time — if not from its or- 

 ganization — this Department has been 

 more or less of a political machine, 

 but never more so than under former 

 Secretary Wilson. His antagonistic at- 

 titude towards the seed trade of this 

 country is well known to all members 

 of this industry. There is no line of 

 business in the country which natu- 

 rally is so closely affiliated with the 

 Department as the seed business, and 

 with intelligent co-operation on the 

 part of the Department much good 

 could have been accomplished and 

 many important reforms smoothly 

 worked out that probably will not be 

 attained so readily even by legisla- 

 tion. 



Reference has been made to the 

 prejudice shown by the former Secre- 

 tary towards seedmen. and his subor- 

 dinates, during the period of his reign, 

 being well aware of this, frequently 

 did not hesitate to give expression to 

 it in very thinly veiled terms.. George 

 C. Watson voices the hope of every 

 one, that the new Secretary will see 

 his way clear to make a clean sweep 

 of many of the hold-overs who have 



been especially offensive. We cannot 

 however, foretell what the new Secre- 

 tary will do, and must await the de- 

 velopment of his policy which prob- 

 ably will not become clearly defined 

 for many months to come. 



Where It Began. 

 The first noticeable manifestation 

 of the former Secretary's antagonism 

 occurred about the time that he 

 awarded the Department's seed con- 

 tract to an absolutely irresponsible 

 bidder merely because this bidder 

 could secure a bond from a bonding 

 and indemnity company. The award- 

 ing of this contract, quite naturally, 

 caused more or less adverse criticism 

 on the part of the seedsmen, and the 

 farmer Secretary resented it as per- 

 sonally directed against himself, and 

 from that time on. has been — to put it 

 mildly — not friendly to the seed trade 

 of the country. The wretched failure 

 which followed the awarding of the 

 contract, in the instance referred to, 

 as well as the difficulty in suppressing 

 a scandal connected therewith, is 

 known quite generally to members of 

 the trade. It is feared that, so long as 

 the present heads of Bureaus or what- 



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