272 



HORTICULTUEE 



September 14, 1918 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



Officers — President. F. W. Bolgiano, 

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

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

 Vice-President, David Burpee, Philadel- 

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

 Kendel, Cleveland, O. 



SEEDSMEN — WHAT DO YOU 

 THINK OF THIS 



Seedsmen Classified by United States 

 Government. 



For convenience in handling the 

 Work of seed reporting, it is desirable 

 that a classification of those engaged 

 in the seed business be adopted. The 

 following classification seems to come 

 nearer than any other to meeting the 

 requirements and has been adopted 

 tentatively by the seed reporting 

 service: 



(1) SEED DE.\I-ERS: 



( a ) Wholesale Dealers.— ( Wholesale 

 seedsmen.) Those who handle field or 

 vegetable seeds as their main line in a 

 wholesale or jobbing way, and who 

 usually dispose of their seeds through 

 periodical price lists or by traveling 

 salesmen. 



(b) Mail-order Seed Dealers.— Those 

 who handle field or vegetable seeds as 

 their main line and dispose of such 

 seeds chiefly to consumers by means 

 of a descriptive catalogue. 



(c) Retail Seed Dealers. —Those who 

 handle field or vegetable seeds either 

 as a main line or as a side line, and 

 dispose of such seeds locally to con- 

 sumers. 



Id) Seed Brokers. — (Seed commis- 

 sion men.) Those who act as agents 

 for seed dealers, shippers, growers, or 

 consumers in buying or selling seeds. 

 They are usually advantageously lo- 

 cated in Important seed markets. 



(e) Miscellaneous Seed Dealers. — 

 Those dealers who buy or sell field or 

 vegetable seeds in any other manner 

 than defined above. 



(2) SEED shippers: 



(a) Sectional Seed Shippers. — Those 

 who buy seeds of one or more lands 

 from local shippers and seed farmers 

 in their own locality or nearby locali- 

 ties, and ship such seeds to seed deal- 

 ers. Sectional shippers are usually ad- 

 vantageously located in sections pro- 

 ducing large quantities of the kinds of 

 seeds that they handle. 



(b) Local Seed Shippers. — Those lo- 

 cated at production points where one 

 or more kinds of seeds are shipped out 

 and who buy such seeds from seed 

 farmers for shipment to sectional ship- 

 pers or to seed dealers. Local shippers 



are usually merchants of various kinds 

 who ship seeds as a side line. 



(3) SEED growers: 

 (a I Commercial Seed Growers. — 

 Those who have their seed growing 

 business organized for the production 

 and sale of the seeds grown by them 

 on land operated by themselves or 

 under their supervision, or grown for 

 them by seed farmers. 



(b) Seed Farmers. — Those who grow 

 seed on land operated by themselves 

 without conducting a commercial busi- 

 ness of selling seed. 



(c) Miscellaneous Seed Growers. — 

 Those who are neither commercial 

 seed growers nor seed farmers, but 

 who, in any other way, through own- 

 ership or contract, control any acreage 

 devoted to seed production, or who 

 purchase vegetable seed directly from 

 seed farmers. — Seed Reporter. 



What a seedsman who has been 

 forty-two years in the business, in all 

 departments, thinks follows: 



The U. S. Government would be bet- 

 ter employed attending to something 

 useful. A seedsman is a man who 

 knows his business in all branches. 

 His avenues of supply include the 

 whole world. You can't grade a seeds- 

 man. He isn't a seedsman at all, un- 

 til he is recognized by the world as 

 such. Abroad, a man has to serve 

 his apprenticeship in all departments: 

 flower seeds, vegetable seeds, farm 

 seeds, forest seeds, the accounting 

 department — and even at that, has to 

 come out and face the music before 

 they will call him a seedsman. There 

 isn't any such thing as grades to a 

 seedsman. Because a country grocer 

 sells a bushel of clover or timothy 

 that doesn't make him a seedsman, 

 any more than selling a pint of sarsa- 

 parilla to a friend makes a doctor. If 

 things keep on the way they have 

 been going for some years past we 

 may expect to see the Washington au- 

 thorities grading the lawyers, the 

 clergymen, the doctors, and — no we 

 had better not say it — we had almost 

 said congressmen; but fortunately we 

 thought of .Jean Rankin. But doesn't 

 this grading idea sound silly — the 

 more you think of it? 



George C. Watson. 



VEGETABLE SEED CROP CONDI- 

 TIONS. 



This report is supplementary to a 

 similar report published in the issue 

 of the Seed Reporter of August 10, and 

 its main purpose is to cover any later 

 developments in vegetable seed crop 

 conditions. It has been compiled from 

 inquiries sent to important seed grow- 

 ers and from information furnished by 



the field agents of the Seed Reporting 

 Service. The larger part of some 

 crops has been harvested and reports 

 have been received of threshing and 

 cleaning operations but a considerable 

 part of some of the crops harvested 

 was reported unthreshed. 



Special investigations have been 

 made in certain vegetable seed crops, 

 and where a condition differing mate- 

 rially troni that indicated in the re- 

 port of August 10 has been disclosed, 

 such difference has been noted under 

 the head of that particular seed crop. 

 In general it may be said that recent 

 reports have not changed materially 

 the prospects for the seed crop as pub- 

 lished in the last issue of the Seed 

 Reporter. 



Beans — Reports from the large bean- 

 frrowing sections show that while the crop 

 has been damaged locally in some places 

 and many fields do not look as promising 

 as they did a month ago, all indications are 

 that a large crop will Jie harvested. Local 

 damage occasionally by drouth and hall 

 lias been reported from both California and 

 rolorado. In the eastern bean-growing 

 areas, growers report the condition of the 

 I rop as "good to fair" but add that it is 

 too earl.v to make an estimate on the prob- 

 able production. Reports indicate that 

 about 7.5 per cent of the crop has been har- 

 vested. 



Beet — Reports of threshing operations 

 that have been received from California in- 

 dicate that the beet-seed crop will be up to 

 the expectations of the growers as indi- 

 cated in the report published on August 10. 

 Reports from eastern seed-growing areas 

 show tlie beet-seed crop to be in good con- 

 dition, with tile prospects for a normal 

 crop. Mangels are threshing out well, with 

 some yields of 1.500 pounds reported. 



Cabbage — A part of the cabbage-seed 

 • ■rop has been harvested. The yield with 

 many growers on the acreage harvested is 

 satisfactory. The low average yield given 

 here of J70 pounds per acre Is probably due 

 to the fact that some acreages have been 

 in<-lu(led in this report which were partly 

 or wholly destroyed by Hoods. Estimates 

 on deliveries among some of the large 

 growers vary from 4 to -,5 per cent. 



Carrot^ — Over one-half of the carrot-aeed 

 crop has been harvested in both the Santa 

 Clara Valley and "River District" in Cali- 

 fornia. Conservative estimates place the 

 average yield for both districts at 700 

 pounds per acre, which is fully up to the 

 previous reports of the growers. 



Onion Seed — Some estimates of the yield 



STAR BRAND ROSES 



"American Pillar" and nearly every 

 other good hardy climber. 



Send for our \l»t. 



TherONARD & 



Cjor»Esco. 



a 



I WEST GROVE 

 PENN.,U.S>A. 



Sobwt PrI*, Pna. Aatolie WiiBM, ?I<M-Pl*>. 



IVe mri tubsirihfrs to tht Nurstrymen s Fund 



for Marktt Dtvilopynent 



THE 



HORTICULTURAL 

 CATALOG 



A MONTHLY M.*G.\ZINE FOR 



WESTERN NURSERYMEN 

 FLORISTS, SEEDSMEN 



Contains alpliubetical listings of 



available surplus stock, et«. 



$1.00 per year. Forelgrn $1.50 



THE HORTICULTURAL CATALOG 



tOS .\NOELES, CALIFOBNIA 



