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April 5, 1913 



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SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 

 Officers — President. Chas. N. Page, 

 Des Moines, la.; 1st vice-president, 

 Harry L. Holmes, Harrlsbarg, Pa.; 

 2nd vice-president, Arthur B. Clark, 

 Mllford. Conn.; secretary and trens- 

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

 sistant secretary, J. M. Ford, Ravenna, 

 O. Next convention at Cleveland, Ohio, 

 June 24-25, 1913. 



Flood Damage, 



There are rumors of considerable 

 damage having been done to the 

 stoclis of seedsmen in the flooded dis- 

 tricts of the west and to some extent 

 in New Yorli state. We are reliably 

 informed that H. W. Gordinier & Sons 

 of Troy have suffered a loss of several 

 thousands of dollars as a result of the 

 recent flooded condition of the Hudson 

 river. The loss was not so much in 



seeds as in the general miscellaneous 

 stocks carried by a first-class seed 

 house, also — in this instance — damage 

 to feed, hay and grain in which this 

 firm are very extensive dealers. As 

 there was no insurance carried by the 

 house to protect them against loss by 

 water, whatever this may amount to 

 will be a dead loss. 



Reports from Indiana, Ohio and Ken- 

 tucky while not as authentic as the 

 case just cited are doubtless more or 

 less well-founded. In Dayton and Co- 

 lumbus, the losses sustained by deal- 

 ers must have been considerable, to 

 say nothing of those suffered by 

 smaller concerns in the less important 

 towns. As soon as dealers are able 'o 

 take an inventory of their losses and 

 what they will require to carry them 

 through the season the wholesale 

 houses are likely to be quite heavily 

 drawn on for supplies. Probably by 

 another week the situation will have 



sufficiently cleared up so that we can 

 get something like a reliable estimate 



of losses. 



Freakish Weather. 

 In the meantime the weather has 

 not been especially favorable and out- 

 side of the zone of flood and tornadoes, 

 there has been snow and wintry weath- 

 er which has seriously retarded active 

 operations and. while a few weeks 

 ago everyone was predicting an early 

 spring, it does not look quite so prom- 

 ising at this moment. However, as 

 there is very little frost in the ground 

 a few warm days will probably dry it 

 out sufficiently' to make early plowing 

 possible and. in fact, w.e have heard 

 of peas being planted in New England 

 within the past two weeks; the seeds 

 of some other hardy vegetables have 

 gone into the ground and, with favor- 

 able weather, farmers should be able to 

 market their early vegetables at an 

 earlier date than usual. It is all a 



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