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HORTICULTURJL 



December 25, 1909 



Seed Trade 



The Canners and Their Allies. 



Supplementing what was said in 

 a previous issue about the conference 

 between a committee of the Machinery 

 & Supplies Association and the Na- 

 tional Canners' Association, it may be 

 said that after a more or less heated 

 discussion of the matters at issue, it 

 looks as if the canners would be rea- 

 sonable enough to meet their col- 

 leagues of the Machinery & Supplies 

 Association halt way, and it this proves 

 to be true, there will be no serious 

 difficulty in reaching an amicable ad- 

 justment of all difficulties between the 

 two organizations. There is no rea- 

 son why there should be any unpleas- 

 antness where each is willing to rec- 

 ognize the other as an independent or- 

 ganization, but as things have been 

 conducted during the last few years, 

 the Machinery & Supplies Association 

 have been simply the tail of the dog 

 and a very short one at that. It was 

 remarked by one of the Machinery men 

 that the governing party of the can- 

 ners regarded the Machinery & Sup- 

 plies Association as an asset in nego- 

 tiating for terms and other conditions 

 desired by them at these annual con- 

 ventions. To illustrate, it was said 

 that the canners had received an offer 

 from the city of Toledo of $3,500 it 

 they would hold the next annual con- 

 vention there, but whether this was 

 demanded by the canners cannot be 

 definitely stated, although it is regard- 

 ed as probable. Now with this $3,500, 

 together with an admission fee of $2.00 

 to $3.00 which the National Canners' 

 Association proposes to charge the 

 members of the Machinery & Supplies 

 Association and their friends, the can- 

 ners would have a very tidy sum to 

 bank after the convention, as it is esti- 

 mated that at least another $3,500 

 would be received in the form of ad- 

 missions. 



Taking everything into considera- 

 tion, the canners have shown marked 

 business astuteness in the way they 

 have worked not only the Machinery 

 & Supplies Association, but all the 

 members of their own organizations, 

 both those who are members of the 

 National Association and those who are 

 not. There never has been any doubt 

 that had the little body of men who 

 are now in control of the Canners' or- 

 ganization, submitted this admission 

 fee to a vote of their own organiza- 

 tion, it would have been overwhelm- 

 ingly defeated, therefore they have 

 been very careful to refrain from do- 

 ing this. 



It is earnestly to be hoped that they 

 will show due regard for the associate 

 organizations, which have usually met 

 with them in their annual conven- 

 tions, to insure cordial co-operation be- 

 tween the different bodies, as either 

 open or surpressed hostility is highly 

 detrimental to the aims and purposes 

 which all hold in common; that is, 

 the development and success of the 

 Canners. 



The fact that there will be no ex- 

 hibits at the forthcoming convention 

 at Atlantic City is generally regarded 

 as operating against a large attend- 

 ance, and in all probability the num- 

 ber present will not exceed half those 

 that attended the two last conventions. 



NEW SEED 



PHOENIX ROEBELENI 



THE ONLY SEED TO BE^OFFERED 



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Rept'Bsen ta tivo 



Postage on Sealed Seed Packets. 



It appears that the agitStion as to 

 classification of seed packets as first- 

 class matter has had a favorable re- 

 sult. We learn through H. A. Bun- 

 yard of A. T. Boddington, that the 

 acting Third Assistant Postmaster Gen- 

 eral has dug up a departmental regu- 

 lation of direct application to the 

 question at issue. 'This provides that 

 merchandise sealed for the preserva- 

 tion of its contents is mailable at third 

 class rates, etc., etc. 



Postmasters who have made rulings 

 of local application to the contrary 

 have been notified to be good, and in 

 one or two cases, at least, there is 

 likely to be a change of administra- 

 tion in the local postoffices involved. 



Danish Cabbage Seed Crop. 



Hjalntar Hartmann & Co., Copen- 

 hagen, report that on the night of 

 November 12 a snowstorm, of such ex- 

 tent that according to the meteorolog- 

 ical observation was unsurpassed in 20 

 years, was followed by severe freezing 

 and many cabbages and other vege- 

 tables intended for the market were 

 entirely spoiled, winter coming so sud- 

 denly that no preparations had been 

 made to cover the stock. This means 

 a large loss to the inhabitants of Am- 

 ager, who are growing all kind of veg- 

 etables for the Copenhagen market 

 inrl for export to Russia, Finland and 

 Germany. Considerable lots of cab- 

 bage intended for seeds for the Ameri- 

 can trade were affected by the frost. 



Notes from Lompoc. 



The acreage for sweet peas on the 

 new Burpee farm at Lompoc, Cal., will 

 be 37 acres this season. Mr. Lonsdale, 

 in a letter, says that the paying crop 

 in seed beans in that section is Ken- 

 tucky Wonder, which is a big yielder 

 and is easily threshed. The farmers 

 do not like Lazy Wife or Sunshine 

 Cluster, neither of which yield satis- 

 factorily. Sunshine Cluster and Gold- 

 en Wax are hard to thresh out clean. 

 Kentucky Wonder is called Old Home- 

 stead in some catalogues. The Lima 

 does not do well in Lompoc because 

 the plant does not stop growing and 

 producing in time to ripen up the 

 crop. 



Notes. 



Shindler & Co., seeds and flowers, 

 have been incorporated to do business 

 in New Orleans, La. Capital $5,000. 



Alfred Thomas Bridgeman, traveling 

 auditor of the D. L. &. W. R. R.. died 

 at Morristown, N. J., December 12, as 

 the result of a stroke of apoplexy. Mr. 

 Bridgeman was the son of the well- 



known seedsman, the late Alfred 

 Bridgeman. 



The Rhudy and Hall Seed Company 

 of Kansas City, Kan., has bought for 

 $1,200 the stock of the William A. 

 Duncan Seed Company of St. Joseph. 

 Duncan filed a voluntary petition in 

 bankruptcy, November 30. The sale 

 was made through J. J. Garth, tempo- 

 rary receiver for the bankrupt firm. 



The Ewing Seed Company, Nash- 

 ville, Tenn., has been incorporated; 

 capital stock, $15,000; incorporators, 

 W. B. Ewing, .1. I. Newsom, Jr., B. R 

 Wilkerson and William B. Shelton; 

 for the purpose of buying and selling 

 seeds, fertilizers, florists' supplies, gar- 

 den implements, poultry, supplies, etc. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Chase Nursery Co., Huntsville, Ala.— 

 Chase's Extra Special Bulletin, "Clean- 

 up" Bargains. 



Franz Birnstiel, Coburg— Illustrated 

 catalogue and price list of Jardinieres, 

 Fancy Flower Stands, Baskets, etc. 



John C. Moninger Co., Chicago. — 

 "Boilers," an interesting descriptive 

 list of the different types of heating 

 apparatus offered by this house. Espe- 

 cially useful are the "Rules for Figur- 

 ing Greenhouse Heating," given on 

 page 19. Other tables and plans on 

 the following pages will be found very 

 instructive and helpful. 



W. F. Cobb & Co., Franklin, Mass. 

 — Catalog of Farm Seeds. Corn, oats 

 and potatoes, northern grown, "None 

 Except the Best," are the specialties 

 in this well-printed catalog. "Catalog 

 of Vegetable and Flower Seeds" is an 

 attiactive companion to the above, 

 fully illustrated. 



PATENTS GRANTED. 



943,330. Pipe Coupling. John C. 

 Yearke, Buffalo, N. Y., as- 

 signor of one-half to Al- 

 bert F. Yearke, Buffalo, 

 N. Y. 



943,373. Hotbed. George H. Barbour, 

 Pittsburg, Pa. 



943,461. Hose Coupling. Charles E. 

 Judkins, Coeur d'Alene, 

 Idaho. 



WOW! 



Edward Moon, a prominent young 

 farmer of Williamsfield, is something 

 of a horticultural scientist. He has 

 succeeded in producing an entirely 

 new and strange weed of the hybrid 

 class and he openly boasts of his skill 

 and acumen along these lines, it being 

 his opinion, openly expiessed, that he 

 has IJurbank cheated to a fare you 

 well.— Williamsfield, 111., Times. 



