October 5. 1918 



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SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



Officers — PresideDt. F. W. Bolgiano, 

 H'ashinKton, D. C. ; First Vice-President, 

 Wm. G. Scarlett, Baltimore, Md.; Second 

 Vice-President, David Burpee, Pbilsdel- 

 phla. Pa.; Secretary-Treasurer, C. E. 

 Kendel, Cleveland, O. 



Corn Quarantine Regulations 



Under provisions of Section 21(16 of 

 the general statutes. Governor Hol- 

 comb has issued a proclamation pro- 

 hibiting shipments of ear corn, ana 

 corn stover from Massachusetts into 

 Connecticut and also similar ship- 

 ments from any other state if it pass- 

 es through -Massachusetts in transit. 

 In other words only dried shell corn 

 or cooked and preserved corn prod- 

 ucts may be shipped through or from 

 Massachusetts into Connecticut with- 

 out first getting written permission 

 from E. H. Jenkins, Director of the 

 Connecticut Agricultural Experiment 

 Station at New Haven. Governor Hol- 

 comb was prompted to put on such 

 quarantine regulations because of the 

 appearance in Massachusetts of a 

 very destructive insect known as the 

 European corn borer, Pi/rausta futil- 

 (lUs Hubner, which threatens the corn 

 growing industry of the country. 



According to Dr. \V. E. Britton, 

 State and Station Entomologist, the 

 European corn borer is a very destruc- 

 tive insect. The larvae bore into the 

 stalks and ear of the corn plant. 

 Often, several borers are at work in 

 the same plant, and they go from one 

 stalk to another. Two and probably 

 three generations occur in a season, 

 and the larvae pass the winter in their 

 borrows in the stalks. There is no 

 easy remedy except destroying the 

 infested plants. When corn is cut 

 and packed in the silo, or when green 

 corn of stover is fed to cattle or hogs, 

 the borers will be destroyed. If com 

 is allowed to stand in the field until 

 the following spring or summer, the 

 borers may emerge and attack other 

 plants. Not only is corn infested but 

 the pest will attack barnyard grass, 

 pigweed, ragweed and a number of 

 other weeds and garden vegetables if 

 growing near the infested corn. The 

 proper disposal or destruction of all 

 such food plants is of the utmost im- 

 portance. 



LOANS TO FARMERS. 



The Federal land banks have made 

 loans to 55,325 farmers, aggregating 

 ?124,877,000. 



It is perfectly safe to say that it it 

 had not been for the Federal Farm 

 Loan System, interest rates to farmers 



To Our Bulb Trade 



We take this opportunity of advising our trade 

 that after a great many complications, formal- 

 ities and other shipping encumberances we were 

 successful in securing the exportation of our 

 FRENCH GARDEN BULBS from the Port of 

 MARSEILLE, FRANCE. The Garden Bulbs 

 have been shipped on a steamer and will arrive 

 in the United States within a very short time. 

 It gives us great pleasure to be able to notify our 

 clients through this medium that we have been 

 successful in being able to attend to their 

 supplies. 



DREVON TEGELAAR & COMPANY 



"Seeds with a Lineage" All Varieties 



Thoroughly tested at our trial grounds, Rasmea 



Park, London, England. Send for Catalogue 



CARTERS TLSTED SEEDS, Inc., c.^.,ir.,^,i „.„ 



BAHIBOO 

 GANE STAKES 



Per bale Per i>ale 



N.*Tl'R.AI,, 6-9 ft.. 600 S'.OO 



9-13 ft., 400 8.50 



PrU.'es ex warehouse New York 

 Terms — Net ca.sli .30 days. 



McHUTCHlSON & CO. 



95 Chambers St.. 



New York 



Freesia Purity 



MAMMOTH SIZE 



Also 5-8 and up 

 FREESIA — refracts alba B-8 Inch. 

 SWEET WILLIAM — single mixed 



fine strain. 



CTCHMEN Seed. Finest .Araerican 

 grown from the very finest strains. 



Prices on Applltation 



J. M, THORBURN & CO. 



53 Barclay Street 



Through to 64 Park Place 



XEW YORK CITY 



would have been going up and up all 

 through this war. The Federal Farm 

 Loan System has saved the farmers, 

 whether they borrow through it or not. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Vaughan's Seed Store, Chicago and 

 New York. — Trade Catalogue, Autumn, 

 1918. 



Henry F. Michell Co., Philadelphia. 

 Pa.— Wholesale Price List of Bulbs, 

 etc., for Fall, 1918. A complete ex- 

 hibit of good things for the trade. 



V. Lemoine & Son, Nancy. France. — ■ 

 Autumn. 1918, and Spring, 1919 Cata- 

 logue of Choice Nursery and Green- 

 house Plants. As interesting and pro- 

 gressive as ever. Several excellent 

 half tone illustrations of Lemoine 

 novelties. 



PUBLICATION RECEIVED 



Bulletin No. 216 of The Maryland 

 State College of Agriculture, Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station. College 

 Park, Md., is an exhaustive treatise. 

 228 pages of the Conditions Detri- 

 mental to Seed Production, by J. B. S. 

 Norton and C. E. Leathers. It is an 

 exceedingly timely and valuable con- 

 tribution at the present time when 

 seed production in this country is fast 

 becoming a vital industry. 



STUMPP & WALTER CO. 



Seeds and Bulbs 



30-32 Barclay Street 

 NEW YORK CITY 



