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HOETICULTUEE 



March 22, 1913 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



Officers — President, Chas. N. Page, 

 Des Moines, la.; 1st Tlce-presldent, 

 Harry L. Holmes, Harrlsborg, Pa.; 

 2nd ylce-presldent, Arthur B. Clark, 

 Mllford, Conn.; secretary and treas- 

 urer, C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, O.; as- 

 sistant secretary, J. M. Ford, Ravenna, 

 O. Next convention at Cleveland, Ohio, 

 Jane 24-25, 1913. 



Counter Trade. 

 The generally stormy, rainy weather 

 of the past week interfered to a con- 

 siderable extent with seed business 

 in the east, but with the return of 

 pleasant weather there will doubtless 

 be greatly increased activity in all 

 lines. Counter trade is opening up 

 earlier than usual and as soon as the 

 ground is sufficiently dry to be worked 

 properly gardening operations will be 

 on in earnest. We believe that there 

 Is very little frost in the ground this 

 year except in northern New England 

 and New York, but in the market 

 gardening sections the frost did not 

 penetrate deeply this winter. 



The Canning Interests. 



As predicted in these columns some 

 week or two since, a committee repre- 

 senting the three allied associations 

 connected with the canning industry, 

 namely, the National Canners, Ma- 

 chinery and Supplies and the Brokers, 

 met in New York, at Hotel Rector, on 

 the 11th, to consider the clairiis of the 

 various bidders for the next national 

 convention. This committee is com- 

 posed of the three presidents and their 

 secretaries. It was found that nine 

 cities had bid for the convention. The 

 committee finished its preliminary 

 work early in the afternoon and then 

 adjourned to meet in Baltimore the 

 Wednesday following for a conferencs 

 with the local committee there, repre- 

 senting the Canners' Exchange. Fol- 

 lowing the ad.iournment of the com- 

 mittee on location in the afternoon, a 

 meeting of the directors of the Can- 

 ning Machinery and Supplies Associa- 

 tion was held at the Hotel Rector and 

 much business of importance -was 

 transacted. The board finished its 

 work early in the evening and ad- 

 journed subject to the call of the pres- 

 ident should it be thought advisable 

 to hold a special meeting at any time. 

 In the ordinary course of things, how- 

 ever, there probably will not be an- 

 other meeting of the board before next 

 fall. 



On Wednesday evening the commit- 

 tee on location met at the Hotel Emer- 

 son, Baltimore, and were entertained 

 at a dinner by the local committee. 

 Many matters affecting the next an- 

 nual convention were discussed and 

 after dinner the committee inspected 

 the facilities of the three leading hO; 

 tels. Thursday morning they inspected 

 the Fifth Regiment Armory which has 

 been tendered by the City of Balti- 

 more in the event of the convention 

 being held there. This is a very fine, 

 large, well-lighted hall, but is not quite 

 as large as the Machinery and Sup- 

 plies Association would like. It can 

 be used by slightly limiting the space 

 usually allotted to exhibitors, as It 

 contains several thousand more square 

 feet than the armory that was used 



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at Louisville for the recent conven- 

 tion. 



The committee went to Richmond, 

 Virginia, and performed the same 

 service there. We are advised that no 

 selection has as yet been made, as 

 there will probably be another meet- 

 ing and it may be two or three weeks 

 before it Is definitely decided where 

 the next convention will be located. 

 While we have no authority for the 

 opinion we express, it rather looks as 

 if it lies between Baltimore and Rich- 

 mond, as the delegates at the recent 

 convention were nearly evenly divided 

 in their preference between these two 

 cities. 



Decline in Onions and Potatoes. 

 Business with the trade as a whole 

 does not seem to quite measure up to 

 last year. There are, of course, ex- 

 ceptions, but we believe the rule ho'ds 

 good. There has been a marked de- 



cline in the demand for onion seed 

 and the cause is easily given. Last 

 year onions were selling at $4 to $5 

 per bbl.; this year at $1. Onion sets 

 were also scarce and high in price a 

 year ago while now they are abun- 

 dant and moving at low figures, 

 though somewhat firmer than three 

 months ago. Potatoes last year sold 

 at $4 to $5 per bbl. sack. At present 

 they can be bought in Maine at 90c. to 

 $1, and far superior stock to that of- 

 fered a year ago. These declines in 

 values are characteristic of the gen- 

 eral line of seeds, though it is only 

 Just to say that prices last year were 

 abnormally high. Measured by the 

 past five years, present values are 

 above average excepting potatoes and 

 onions. 



A. V. Smith has purchased the busi- 

 ness of the Cleveland Seed Company. 

 Avon, N. Y. 



