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horticulture: 



August 8, 1908 



Seed Trade 



Leesley Bros., who have thirty-five 

 acres of onion sets near the Harlem 

 race tracks, Chicago, reports the crop 

 outlook very favorable. 



L,. W. Bowen. president; H. K. 

 White, vice-president; D. M. Ferry. 

 Jr., treasurer; K. B. White, secretary; 

 A. E. F. White, auditor, constitute the 

 new officers of D. M. Ferry & Co., De- 

 troit. Mich., elected, on J.uly 21. 



One exception to the generally light 

 crops has been beans, and in many 

 sections they could not be sold for the 

 cost of picking. This means much 

 seed in the hands of the farmers, a 

 fact worthy of note by the retail 

 seedsman. 



Harvesting of Alaskas, and other 

 early peas, is now in full swing, and 

 we may soon look for something ap- 

 proaching definite news as to the gen- 

 eral crop. That it will be disappoint- 

 ingly short may be taken for granted, 

 hut here we must rest for the present. 



The acreage in potatoes on Long 

 Island was the largest ever planted, 

 our estimate last spring placing the 

 yield at one million barrels. Such a 

 yield would have meant low prices, 

 but though the yield has been most 

 disappointingly short, prices have been 

 fairly good, and this is about the only 

 balm in Gilead. 



Truck farmers are having a hard 

 time of it this season, as not only are 

 crops light, but the quality is gener- 

 ally poor and prices are low. Those 

 seedsmen who have a large clientage 

 among these people are having their 

 own troubles this year. They report 

 collections as very unsatisfactory, as 

 most early crops have brought very 

 light returns and the farmers have lit- 

 tle money with which to meet their 

 obligations, and the seedsman must 

 wait. 



To add to the troubles of the seed 

 growers, a new plague has appeared, 

 in the shape of a louse or bug, which 

 has attacked the Lima beans in Cali- 

 fornia, and particularly the Burpee's 

 Bush. Just how serious this is going 

 to prove cannot be stated at this time. 

 So far as the trade knows, this is the 

 first year this plague has appeared, at 

 any rate in destructive shape, and all 

 will earnestly hope it is not going to 

 abide with us. We already have 

 troubles enough without the addition 

 of this latest nuisance. 



Reports of scorching heat and hot 

 winds came from the West and the 

 improvement noted in sugar, corn and 

 vine seed crops in last week's HORTI- 



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CULTURE have been nullified by 

 the more recent uncomfortable 

 weather. Hot winds are the special 

 dread of farmers in the grain pro- 

 ducing- srates. and if conditions do not 

 speedily change, irreparable damage 

 will be done. The sensational ad- 

 •.-ance in the price of corn, wheat, oats 

 and other grains of the past few days 

 is strong evidence of this. 



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Floral Park, N. Y. 



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