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HORTICULTURE. 



August 7, 1909- 



Seed Trade 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIA- 

 TION. 



President, J. C. Robinson, Waterloo, 

 Veb. ; li'lrst Vice-President. M. H. Duryea, 

 New York; Second Vice-President, F. W. 

 Itolglano, Washington. D. C; Seeretary- 

 rreasurer. C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, Ohio; 

 Assistant Secretary, Leonard H. Vaughan, 

 v.'hlcago. 



WHOLESALE SEEDSMEN'S 



LEAGUE. 



F. W. Bruggerhof, Pres.; Burnet Land- 

 reth, Sec'y. 



The Other Side of the Free Seed Con- 

 troversy. 

 Editor of HORTICULTURE: 



Dear Sir: — In several of the recent 

 numl)ers of the trade journals letters 

 and items have appeared that reflect 

 on the manner in which the free seed 

 distriliution is being conducted by the 

 Department of Agriculture. The writer 

 of this holds no brief for the officials 

 of the Department and is convinced 

 that they are well able to take care of 

 themselves, but he does feel that some 

 one ought to protest against these at- 

 tacks on the men instead of on the 

 measures. The writer has himself 

 been engaged in this work and helped 

 to establish some of the policies that 

 have been followed ever since and he 

 knows whereof he speaks when he 

 says that there is not a responsible 

 official in the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 who would not be glad to have the 

 seed distribution done away with. 

 Much more effort has been made by 

 these men than the seedsmen know of 

 to bring about this result. That they 

 have not succeeded is not their fault, 

 and that the distribution has grown 

 since the work was turned over to this 

 Bureau is only the logical result of 

 good administration 



The trade should remember . that 

 these men have a hard problem to 

 handle. On the one hand they have 

 to get out the seed, and on the other 

 they have a definite amount of money 

 to use and the seeds must be se3ured 

 within that appropriation. Mr. Lan- 

 dreth recently objected to the fact that 

 the Department had placed a growing 

 contract and wanted to know why this 

 seed could not have been bought out 

 of surplus. The policy of buying sur- 

 plus is well fixed in the Depaitment, 

 and is carried out whenever surplus 

 can be gotten. The writer himself lost 

 an order Iftst fall because another 

 grower offered seeds in surplus that 

 the writer wished to grow for the De- , 

 . partment. To wait till the next sea- 

 son, however, and take a chance on 

 being able to get surplus would be the 

 height of folly. 



The writer dislikes to see these at- 

 tacks made when he knows that no 

 more honest and conscientious set of 

 men ever handled this work and that if 

 the seedsmen would inform themselves 

 as to the facts they would not take the 

 attitude they are taking. No good will 

 come of this attitude. If the distribu- 

 tion is to be stopped it must come by 

 a gradual changing into other chan- 

 nels and the writer feels sure that the 

 Department would welcome the co- 

 operation of the trade in doing this. 

 The trade ought to work with the 



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Notes. 



The death of Edward M. Lyman, the 

 veteran seedsman of Springfield. Mass.. 

 is recorded in our obituary column. 



Des Moines, la. — A. A. Geil has 

 brought suit against the Iowa Seed 

 t"o. to recover price of seed which he 

 claims was different from that he pur- 

 chased. 



Consul-General Paul Nash of Buda- 

 pest, suggests that in view of the de- 

 velopment in horticulture and agricul- 

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COPENHAGEN, DENMARK 



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