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MORT1CULTUHL 



July 18, 1908 



Seed Trade 



Th( of t He year approached 



when crop conditions and prospects is 

 i the onlj subjei I w bicb attracts 

 eneraJ atic ntion and interest. The 

 advices from California indicate 

 that some crops are good, and others 

 only fair, and while it is too earlj to 

 say with confidence what the Dni 

 crops will be, as there is yet time 

 before harvest for serious damage to 

 be wrought, still as a general proposi- 

 tion there is likely to be little change 

 from present indications. 



Accepting this as "official," we can 

 say that onion seed will be a large 

 crop, a bumper ctop in fact, and the 

 cry of short acreage which the Califor- 

 nia gt owers have repeated with tire- 

 some persistency is more of a ghost 

 raised to justify their abnormally high 

 pi ices on future seed which they ex- 

 act. 'd of the seed trade last winter. 

 It is a far cry between 25c. and $1.25 

 onion seed, and while the former was 

 ivnprofitably low, the latter will prove 

 in the end to lie unproStably high, not 

 only to the seedsmen but to the grow- 

 ers. If the crop when harvested 

 proves tiue to its present promise in 

 California and the East, there will be 

 with reserves carried from last year 

 not less than 1,500,000 lbs. of onion 

 seed in the United States, and every 

 one knows that this will be consider- 

 ably in excess of the annual consump- 

 tion. It certainly looks as if there 

 would be a heavy decline from last 

 winter's contracting prices. 



Lettuce seed, on a somewhat in- 

 creased acreage looks now r like an 

 average of from 40 to 75 per cent, of 

 the expected crop, a few specialties 

 being very short, but on standard 

 sorts while jobbing prices will no 

 doubt advance from 15 to 25 per cent, 

 there will be no famine figures. 



Carrot will be a short crop, possibly 

 10 to 60 per cent. Radish also will be 

 short, but those having a critical trade 

 probably do not rely on California- 

 grown radish seed. 



The yield of sweet peas per acre will 

 fall considerably below average, rang- 

 ing from SOU to 1200 lbs. against 1.200 

 to 1S0O lbs., which is about the normal 

 vield. This shrinkage is due to lack 

 of sufficient moisture, the vines at- 

 taining only about half their usual 

 height. Prices should rule slightly 

 higher on the mixed colois, and will 

 be from 20 to 40 per cent, higher on 

 the fancy named varieties. All in- 

 dications are that the Spencer 

 type are bound to supersede the old 

 type to a very great extent, as the 

 flowers are larger and have much more 

 substance, and are really more beau- 

 tiful. 



Salsify will be a fair crop and aver- 

 age prices should be maintained. Par- 

 snips will be light, but percentages 

 are not available. Celery, endive, 

 kale, leek, mustard and spinach will 

 be about average crops, but excepting 



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possibly mustard, are not grown in 

 sufficient quantities to be much of a 

 factor in determining prices. 



Such crops as are grown in the 

 middle west are not considered up to 

 average at this time of year, late va- 

 rieties of sugar corn and many varie- 

 ties of vine seeds in particular, bui 

 nothing definite can be said ai put 

 them at present, as there is yet time 

 for improvement, and always time up 

 to harvest for deteriotation. 



Garden beets will be in short sup- 

 ply, and particularly such varieties as 

 Detroit Turnip, Crosby's Egyptian. 

 Crimson Globe, Columbia and Stinson. 

 Prices should show a marked advance. 

 In fact. Detroit Turnip is now being 

 quoted in moderate quantities only at 

 25c. to 30c. It may be well to remark 

 that only wholesale prices are referred 

 to in these notes, unless otherwise 



specially mentioned. Mangels show in 

 a moderate way the advance, but thus 

 for no variety has shown many marked 

 siioitage. Peas will be short again, 

 and present indications are that the 

 ci op will not be materially better than 

 last year, possibly not as good. Of 

 course, percentages cannot be given, 

 but in view of all of the known facts 

 prices can hardly fail to rule as high 

 especially the common varieties. Re- 

 ports of a reliable character from 

 cann°is in all parts of the country in- 

 dicate that the average pack of peas 

 will be about (10 to 70 per cent, on the 

 acrpagc, which was about 10 per cent, 

 larger than a yeai ago. The result has 

 been an immediate advance in prices, 

 and a sudden kindling of interest on 

 the part of jobbers and wholesale 

 grocers, who have become eager buy- 

 ers. An active advancing market on 



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