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HORTICULTURE 



June 11, lalO 





and it is hj, o^hat there will be a lib- 

 eral attendance. Those who have been 

 looking forward to a dip in the surf 

 may be disappointed unless they are 

 prepared to take it in pretty chilly 

 water. The cold weather has con- 

 tinued for so long, or in other words, 

 there has been so little really warm 

 weather that the sea water will un- 

 doubtedly be too cold to suit the aver- 

 age bather. 



Losses on Onion Sets and Potatoes. 



We are informed that a good many 

 onion sets have been dumped during 

 the past week or ten days, dealers 

 having become convinced that there 

 will be no market for them this sea- 

 son. The total loss from this source 

 is not believed to be heavy. The loss 

 due to the slump in the price of seed 

 potatoes has, no doubt, been heavier 

 than on the onion sets although pota- 

 toes of course are not a total loss as 

 are the onion sets. 



Low Prices on Canning Peas. 



The canning of peas is proceeding 

 under pressure throughout Delaware 

 and Maryland and reports are that the 

 crop is rather light. The price of 

 peas in the pod in Baltimore city is 

 reported to be rather disappointing, 

 and in Washington it is even lower. 

 We are informed that in the latter 

 city the small-podded varieties are 

 bringing only $1..50 per barrel of two 

 and one-half bushels, and when the 

 cost of picking, which is seventy-five 

 cents per barrel, is deducted there is 

 little or nothing left for the truck 

 farmer. Large-podded peas, such as 

 Amer and Gradus, are bringing from 

 $2.50 to $3.00 per barrel, but even this 

 price is not a very paying one. 



The Next Canners' Convention. 



We are informed that a serious hitch 

 has occurred in the plans for the 

 Canners' Convention of next winter. It 

 was generally supposed that Milwau- 

 kee had been settled on as the place 

 after a committee representing the al- 

 lied associations had conferred with a 

 committee of the business men's asso- 

 ciation of Milwaukee, and after the 

 said allied committee had appointed a 

 sub-committee which visited Milwau- 

 kee to look over their convention hall 

 and decided that everything was ac- 

 ceptable. The only matter which was 

 not definitely settled at the time was 

 certain concessions asked of the hotel 

 men's association. The business men's 

 committee undertook to speak for the 

 hotel men, and while they did not have 

 authority, assumed that what they ac- 

 cepted would be approved by the hotel 

 men. It seems, however, that the lat- 

 ter are not disposed to sanction what 

 the business men's committee promised 

 and there is therefore a hitch, which, 

 unless it is speedily adjusted will result 

 in another city being named for the 

 next Canners' Convention. Doubtless 

 the matter will be given earnest atten- 

 tion by the canners and allied associa- 

 tions as the matter should be settled 



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at as early a date as practicable. We 

 shall be in a position to give definite 

 information of this just as soon as the 

 matter is finally decided upon whether 

 Milwaukee is accepted or some other 

 city. 



A Canning Company in Trouble. 



It is, no doubt, generally known that 

 the Waukesha Canning Co. are in the 

 hands of receivers, but it is also given 

 out by the receivers that they intend 

 to operate the Company's plants and 

 till all orders for future delivery ac- 

 cepted by the firm. As this concern 

 was a very large user of pea seed, it is 

 assumed that they must be owing a 

 number of pea growers for seed shipped 

 them last winter. We have not re- 

 ceived definite information about this, 

 but will probably get such information 

 in the near future. Undoubtedly all 

 accounts will be paid pro rata. The 

 indebtedness of the concern is said to 

 be between five and six hundred thous- 

 and dollars, the nominal assets being 

 several hundred thousand more, but as 

 a matter of fact it is not believed that 

 the assets are anywhere equal to the 

 liabilities, and the creditors must be 

 prepared to accept a substantial cut in 

 their claims when the same are finally 

 adjusted. 



Another Frost. 



A severe frost in northern Michigan 

 and Wisconsin at the close of the past 

 weeli has done considerable damage to 

 tender crops, but full information is 

 not at hand. We should be able to 

 make a more complete report on this 

 matter in our next issue. 



Notes. 



We are informed that I. N. Simon 

 & Son have closed their Newark, N. 

 J., store, but it is reported that an- 

 other party has his eye on it and may 

 decide finally to open a store some- 

 where in the vicinity of that occupied 

 by Simon & Son. 



J. P. Noll & Son. Inc., report a very 

 excellent trade this season, the total 

 showing a very gratifying increase 

 over last year. It is generally be- 

 lieved that their experience has been 

 a common experience of the trade as a 

 whole and we have heard very few 

 complaints from seedmen this year. 



Howard M. Earl arrived at Los An- 

 geles on 29th ult. and spent part of 

 the day looking over the Bodger sweet 

 pea farms at that point. On the 30th 

 the start was made for the Burpee 

 farm, "Floradale." near Lompoc. 

 Straw is short in the sweet pea fields 

 so far as yet seen, which means a 

 light crop if the condition is general. 



Washington, D. C. — F. W. Bolgiano 

 & Co. have recently moved into a five- 

 story warehouse. 1009 B street N. W. 

 The general sales room will be on the 

 first floor, fertilizers on the second, 

 seeds on the third and implements on 

 the fourth and fifth. The move was 

 made on the twenty-first anniversary 

 of their senior's starting in business. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



"Soils and Manures," by J. Alan 

 Murray, B. Sc, has just been published 

 as one of the "Westminster Series," 

 by D. Van Nostrand Company, New 

 York City, This volume of over 350 

 elegantly printed pages will be found 

 invaluable to anyone whose interest 

 centers in the intelligent cultivation 

 of land and the conservation of soil 

 fertility. That the author thoroughly 

 understands the all-important subject 

 of plant needs and soil enrichment and 

 has the rare ability to treat it in an 

 exhaustive manner from a scientific 

 standpoint and yet make his pages in- 

 teresting and intelligble to the layman 

 is the first impression one gleans from 

 a glimpse of its pages. Under the 

 main divisions of "The origin of 

 soils," "Physical properties of soils," 

 "Chemistry of soils," "Biology of 

 soils," "Fertility," "Principles of 

 manuring," "Phosphate manures," 

 "Phospho-nitrogenous manuers," "Ni- 

 trogenous manures," "Potash ma- 

 nures," "Compouiid and miscellaneous 

 manures," "General manures," and 

 "Farm yard manure," the author has 

 covered nearly 300 sub-topics and there 

 is an appendix giving instructions for 

 valuing manures, as issued by the 

 Highland and Agricultural Society of 

 Scotland and a series of tables on the 

 composition and manurial value of 

 various farm food, calculated by Dr. 

 Charles Crowther. 



It would be very difficult to ask a 

 question on any phase of the great sub- 



