July 13, 1918 



HORTICULTURE 



37 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



Officers — President, F. W. Bolgiano, 

 Washington, D. C. ; First Vice-President, 

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

 Vice-President, David Burpee, Philadel- 

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

 Kendel, Cleveland, O. 



Expediting Seed Imports. 



To inform seedsmen of the best 

 methods of importing seeds, the Seeds 

 Stocks Committee of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture has 

 taken up with the War Trade Board 

 and the United States Shipping Board 

 the steps necessary to obtain govern- 

 ment assistance promptly. An import 

 license is required for the importation 

 of seeds. Application blanks for im- 

 port licenses may be obtained from 

 the Bureau of Imports, War Trade 

 Board, Washington, D. C, or at 

 branch offices of the War Trade Board 

 in various cities. The Seed Stocks 

 Committee is to advise with the War 

 Trade Board as to the importance of 

 seeds proposed to be imported in 

 cases of embargoes by foreign coun- 

 tries. 



Potatoes. 



Army purchases of potatoes for July 

 were 224,000 cwt. Average price $2.84 

 per cwt. delivered. Mostly new stock. 

 Potato shipments from Freehold, N. J., 

 section are expected about July 15. 

 Early Utah potato crop is officially re- 

 ported about ready to ship. Export of 

 potatoes from Bermuda is prohibited 

 and a minimum price fixed at equiva- 

 lent of $3.60 per barrel. 



Beans. 



Army and navy purchases of beans 

 completed so far as concerns the 1917 

 crop. 



Tomatoes and Melons 



New York City canners are reported 

 contracting for tomatoes at $18 to $20 

 per ton. Utah canners reported as 

 paying $15 per ton for tomatoes and 

 $57.50 to $62.50 for peas. Shipments 

 of cantaloupes from N. C. Laurenburg 

 section begins about July 8. The 

 shipment of watermelon from Lauren- 

 burg, N. C. section begins about 

 July 20. 



Onions. 



The onion acreage Northern Indi- 

 ana is officially estimated about 10 

 per cent below last year. Probable 

 shipments of onions from the Clarks- 

 burg and Sacramento Districts, Cali- 

 fornia, are officially estimated at 

 43,000 sacks. Army purchases of 



''Seeds with a Lineage" All Varieties 



Thoroughly tested at our trial grounds, Raynes 

 Park, London, Elngland. Send for Catalogue 



CARTERS TESTED SEEDS, Inc., commerce BIdgTBoIton, Mau. 



WEEBER & DON 



114 CHAMBERS ST. 

 NEW YORK 



J. BOLGIANO & SON 



Careful Seed Grower* and Seed Distribu- 

 tors for One Hundred Years 



WRITE FOR OUR 1918 SPECIAL CATALOGUE 



To Market Oardenerg and Florists 

 Pratt and Ught Sts., BALTIMORE, MD. 



FREESIAS 



Mammoth Purity 



Very fine % inch bulbs. Write 

 for prices, state quantity re- 

 quired. 



J.M.THORBURN&CO. 



Estsbllsbed 1802. 

 53 Barclay Street, NEW YORK 



GARDEN SEED 



BEBT, CARROT, PARSNIP, RADISH and 

 GARDEN PEA SBKD In variety ; also other 

 Items of the sbort crop of this past season, 

 as well as a full Una of Garden Seeds, will 

 be quoted yon upon application to 



S. D. WOODRUFF & SONS 



82 Der St., NEW YORK and ORANGE, CONN 



onions tor July are 15,000 cwt., and 

 the average price paid, $2.97 per cwt., 

 delivered at camps. The season of 

 heavy shipments of Delaware and 

 Kentucky onions begins about the 

 second week of July. 



ABOUT HIBERNATING AND AVER- 

 AGES. 



This concerns the seedsmen who 

 have always considered their stores 

 their greatest advertisement and their 

 permanent location the greatest asset. 



The country over, seed merchants 

 of the general store variety express 

 veiled disappointment about 1918 

 spring business. They anticipated an 

 increase in business in proportion to 

 that experienced in the spring of 1917. 

 it did not materialize! 



On the other hand, mall order seed 

 houses worked additional shifts to 

 take care of additional business which 

 the greatest foresight could not anti- 

 cipate. The majority of new-born 

 gardeners sent off by mail for their 

 seeds; they forgot the store on Main 

 street. They started their orders 

 when the Main street store was still 

 hibernating. The result was business 

 galore via the mail order route. 



To us, as students of the far reach- 

 ing effects of advertising, there is 

 nothing, extraordinary in the condi- 

 tion. We anticipated its happening 

 when we advocated last fall the in- 

 vesting of some of last season's 

 bounty in good-will-creating advertis- 

 ing. Advertising, to be most effective, 

 must travel far and wide. The law 

 of averages governs the mail order 

 business. 



— Horticultural Advertising. 



BRITISH PENALTIES FOR INJUR- 

 ING CROPS. 



To stimulate food production fur- 

 ther in Great Britain, the Board of 

 Agriculture has secured the enact- 

 ment of regulations providing severe 

 penalties for damaging growing crops. 

 It is not necessary that there be any 

 notice against trespassing displayed 

 on the land. If the damage is done 

 by a crowd, as sometimes happens 

 when airplanes alight on cultivated 

 land, any member of the crowd is 

 deemed to have caused the damage 

 unless he proves the contrary. The 

 penalty is a fine not exceeding $500 

 or six months imprisonment, with or 

 without hard labor, or both. 



PATENTS GRANTED 



1,266,035, plow attachment, James F. 

 Moffet, West Newton, Penn. 



1,266,049, harrow, George W. Reaves, 

 Little Rock, Ark. 



1,266,328, disk-harrow attachment, 

 Anthony Schulte, Hartington, Neb. 



1,266,380 plow-point fastener, John S. 

 Andress, Jr., Sneads Island, Fla. 



1,266,489 spring-toothed harrow, Jo- 

 seph J. Kovar, Dodge Center, Minn. 



1,266,617, combined lawn trimmer and 

 sod cutter, Warren J. Parsons, Hunt- 

 ington, W. Va. 



1,266,634, transplanter, Anton Schaef- 

 er. Spring Grove, 111. 



1,266,921, combination garden tool, 

 Thomas Cremers, Albany, N. Y. 



1,265,979, harrow, Harry Urban Wake- 

 field, Darks Mill, Tenn. 



