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HORTICULTURE 



December 14, 1918 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



Officers — President. F. W. BoIffiAno, 

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

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

 Vice-President, David Burpee, Philadel- 

 phia, Fa. ; Secretary-Treasurer, C. B. 

 Kendel, Cleveland. O. 



Denmark Establishes Seed Prices. 



The Seed Administration of the 

 Danish Government has issued a cir- 

 cular, effective November 1, 1918, giv- 

 ing wholesale and retail prices ot 

 seeds grown or consumed within Den- 

 mark, and giving regulations govern- 

 ing the export of seeds from Denmark. 

 The wholesale and'retail prices given 

 in this list are maximum for home 

 trade and home consumption, and the 

 wholesale prices are minimum for 

 export trade. 



In order to obtain permission to ex- 

 port seeds from Denmark the follow- 

 ing conditions must be complied with: 

 (a) The price at which the seed has 

 been sold abroad, and which must not 

 be less than the published authorized 

 list, must be stated exactly in the ap- 

 plication, (b) In case the seed has 

 not been sold at the time of export 

 and the exporter cannot state the 

 prices which will be obtained, he 

 must deposit an amount to be fixed 

 by the Seed Administration as a guar- 

 antee, and (c) further, there must be 

 paid a tax of from 10 to 25 per cent 

 of the amount received above the list 

 prices. 



The amount obtained from the tax 

 on seed exports is to be used for three 

 purposes: (1) to pay expenses of the 

 Seed Administration; (2) to insure the 

 seed farmers obtaining a price equal 

 to 20 per cent less than the export 

 price; and (3) to provide a fund by 

 which to lower the cost of seeds im- 

 ported and used by Danish farmers. 



This is ot special interest to Ameri- 

 can seedsmen, as it makes necessary 

 the payment by them on all contract 

 orders from Denmark of a price at 

 least as high as that published in the 

 list authorized by the Danish Govern- 

 ment, even though the price stipulated 

 in the growing contract was lower 

 than the authorized list. 



Congressional Seed Distribution. 



During the fiscal year 1918 there 

 were distributed on congressional and 

 miscellaneous requests 11,165,709 pack- 

 ages of vegetable seed and 2.188,818 

 packages of flower seed, or a total of 

 1.3,354,527 packages, each containing 5 

 packets of different kinds of 'seed. 

 There were also distributed 12,473 

 packages of lawn-grass seed and 11,- 

 110 packages of improved narcissus 

 and tulip bulbs. The seeds and bulbs 

 were purchased on competitive bids, 

 as heretofore. Each lot of seed pur- 

 chased was thoroughly tested for pur- 

 ity and viability before acceptance by 

 the department, and tests of each lot 



''Seeds with a Lineage" All Varieties 



TKoroughly tested at our trial grounds, Ras^ies 

 Park, London, Elngleuid. Send for Catalogue 



CARTERS TESTED S^DS, Inc., c<»un«r«Bid«..Botton. mui. 



were conducted on the department's 

 trial grounds to determine trueness to 

 type. — Bureau of Plant Industry. 



Notes. 

 Sacramento, Cal. — The Valley Seed 

 Co. has moved to 1019-1023 10th St. 



Fond du Lac, Wis. — Henry Michels 

 has opened a seed store at 34 East 

 3d St. His seed farm is located at 

 Malone. 



Washington, D. C. — Seedsmen are 

 again to have an opportunity to 

 do business with the government, 

 for the General Supply Committee 

 in Washington announces that bids 

 will be received until two o'clock, 

 Saturday afternoon, December 21, and 

 then publicly opened for alfalfa, clov- 

 er. Kentucky blue grass, red top, rye, 

 timothy, orchard grass, perennial and 

 Italian rye grass, and canary, hemp, 

 maw, millet, rape and thistle seed. 



The government does not state how 

 much of each will be required, but 

 bidders are requested to submit esti- 

 mates on orders for less than fifty 

 pounds, in lots of from fifty to ninety- 

 nine pounds and in lots of one hun- 

 dred pounds and over, based on the 

 totals of the orders placed for each 

 item last year. Deliveries by the con- 

 tractors are to run from January 1, to 

 June 30, 1919. 



JUST KEEP ON KEEPING ON. 



If the day looks kinder gloomy, 



And your chances kinder slim; 

 If the situation's puzzlin'. 



An' the prospects awful grim. 

 And perplexities keep pressin' 



'Till all hope is nearly gone. 

 Just bristle up and grit your teeth. 



And keep on keepin' on. 



Shunning never wins a fight. 



And frettin' never pays; 

 There ain't no good in broodin' on 



These pessimistic ways. 

 Smile just kinder cheerfully. 



When hope is nearly gone, 

 And bristle up and grit your teeth. 



And keep on keepin' on. 



There ain't no use in growlin'. 



And grumbling all the time; 

 When music's ringing everywhere. 



And everything's a rhyme. 

 Just keep on smiling cheerfully. 



If hope is nearly gone. 

 And bristle up and grit your teeth, 



And keep on keepin' on. 



— Selected. 



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BULBS 



IBobbington's 



128 Chambere St., N. Y. City 



NEWS NOTES. 



Montreal, P. Q. — The Province of 

 Quebec is attaching as much import- 

 ance to agricultural education these 



days as any other province of the Do- 

 minion. Since 1914 practical teaching 

 of horticulture has been a feature of 

 the teaching in the primary schools 

 of the Province. It is estimated that 

 in four years 61,563 pupils have been 

 taught in the schools the rudiments 

 of horticulture. Those who have been 

 watching the development say that 

 early training has aroused the natural 

 curiosity of the school children, and 

 left with them favorable impressions 

 and ideas regarding the cultivation 

 of the soil. 



Newport, R. I. — Mr. and Mrs. Samuel 

 Matson have received a letter from 

 their son, Corporal I. F. Matson, tell- 

 ing them that he has been made ser- 

 geant in the Oriental detail of the 21st 

 Field Artillery, now in France. He en- 

 listed one week after the United States 

 entered the war, went to Fort Slocum 

 and from there to Leon Springs, Texas, 

 where he remained until going over- 

 seas early in March. Soon after arriv- 

 ing in France he went to a radio 

 school, where he remained a few 

 months, later taking charge of the 

 wireless at headquarters. 



Before joining the colors Sergeant 

 Matson was in the employ of Gibson 

 Brothers, florists and was later em- 

 ployed by Charles Uttley, florist, in 

 Harrisburg, Pa., which position re- 

 mains open to him. 



NEW CORPORATION. 

 Gait, Ont. — International Seed Co., 

 Ltd.; capital stock, $100,000. Incor- 

 porators, J. P. Joffrey, H. J. Foster 

 and J. H. Hancock. 



