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January 29, 1910 



Seed Trade 



Lawns and the Mail Order Trade. 



A clever feature of the Henderson 

 catalogue this j'ear is a colored plate 

 of a lawn scene emphasizing the vir- 

 tues of the finer grasses. Very few 

 of the good houses give the proper 

 featuring to this important and lu- 

 crative department of the seed busi- 

 ness. Henderson sets the pace so 

 far, with a number of pages for golf, 

 croquet, cricket, tennis, polo, and 

 other needed formulas. A good word 

 must be said also for Batchelor of 

 Utica in this connection, and the Liv- 

 ingston Seed Co. of Columbus. There 

 seems to be a good field here for the 

 genius of a Burpee. If Burpee once 

 gets started on the subject big results 

 along that line will be apt to wake 

 up the general trade as well as the 

 general public. Of course, the bulki- 

 ness of lawn grasses proportionate to 

 cost is the great deterrent with mail 

 order houses in handling this line, 

 but the increasing express and 

 freight business they have been doing 

 of late years shows them the way out, 

 and we look for some new develop- 

 ment in the near future. There is 

 money in it. The public need to be 

 educated up to quality here more than 

 in any other feature of our business. 

 Wayne MaeVeagh paid Henderson 

 seven dollars a bushel for lawn grass 

 and bragged about results all along 

 the main line. Ask anybody who's 

 got the trade in that locality now. 

 Yet Dreer and others were offering a 

 first-class mixture at five dollars, and 

 the writer believes equally as good 

 as the seven dollar. In fact, it is no 

 secret that the firms mentioned have 

 often seriously considered whether 

 they would not sell as much at seven 

 as five. This point is especially worth 

 considering in this year of short grass 

 seed crops and high prices. 



Selected for the Seedmen's Eye. 



Among the resolutions adoptei by 

 the Farmers' Institute at Tiro are the 

 following: 



Resolved, That we recommend the 

 amending of our bird laws so as to 

 place the quail among the list of song 

 birds. 



Resolved, That we favor the enact- 

 ment of a pure seed law.— Mansfield 

 (Ohio) Shield. 



Alleging that the Iowa Seed Com- 

 pany sold him one kind of clover seed 

 when he ordered another, A. A. Gell 

 brought suit against the company for 

 $1,175, claiming that amount as dam- 

 ages. ' Trial of the suit was begun re- 

 cently before Judge McHenry in the 

 law division of the district court. 



Geil claims that he purchased $175 

 worth of what he thought was medium 

 red clover seed. He planted it in a 

 ten-acre field on his farm, but instead 

 of the variety he desired he alleges 

 that the seed produced an entirely dif- 

 ferent sort of clover, one he claims is 

 absolutely worthless. He claims the 

 loss of the crop and ground and his 

 labor in planting the seed has dam- 

 aged him to the extent of $1,175. — DeB 

 Moines (Iowa) Tribune. 



According to allegations made In the 



district court recently, Thomas Willett 

 has no grounds for suing James S. 

 Michael. The case came up when Wil- 

 lett purchased two pounds of White 

 Plume celery seed from Michael, and 

 after sowing it found that it was not 

 an early variety, as he wa'nted and 

 asked for, but was of a very late va- 

 riety, and came up so late that he 

 was unable to realize any money from 

 the crop. Willett alleged he had been 

 damaged to the extent of $1,500. Mi- 

 chael, in defending himself, said when 

 Willett purchased the seed he had the 

 privilege of making any examination 

 he wished, and that it is a custom of 

 seed men not to feel any responsibility 

 for selling goods under these circum- 

 stances. — Sioux City (Iowa) Journal. 



A bill introduced in Albany, N. Y., 

 January 20, by Assemblyman John M. 

 Lupton of Suffolk County, if enacted, 

 will compel produce commission mer- 

 chants of the state to procure licenses 

 from the State Comptroller and file 

 bonds of $10,000 each. Mr. Lupton is 

 a seed grower in Mattituck, and his 

 measure is in the interest of the farm- 

 ers who send garden produce to the 

 cities. 



The bond would be required to com- 

 pel commission merchants to make a 

 true accounting to their consigners of 

 all produce received and sold, and to 

 remit to the consigners full net returns 

 from the sale of all such products 

 within ten days of th-e sale. — New York 

 Times. 



John Thompson, State Commissioner 

 of Agriculture, is making a strenuous 

 effort to improve the agriculture of the 

 state by raising the quality of seed 

 used by the farmers. He is sending 

 a copy of the following letter to all 

 the seed dealers of the state, urging 

 them to comply with the seed laws 

 passed by the last Legislature: 



"Gentlemen: — I herewith enclose a 

 copy of the Tennessee Seed Law, and 

 wish to call your special attention to 

 Sections 1-6, 11-12 of this act. 



"This law has been in force for a 

 sufficient length of time for every one 

 to be thoroughly familiar with it, and 

 we wish to urge j'ou, and all seed deal- 

 ers in the State of Tennessee, to com- 

 ply with this law in every respect. 



"With best wishes for your success 

 and prosperity in the New Year, I am, 

 Yours very truly, 



"JOHN THOMPSON, 

 "Commissioner." 



The sections of the law to which he 

 calls their attention have special refer- 

 ence to the purity of seeds handled and 

 the penalties for adulteration. — Nash- 

 ville (Tenn.) American. 



Notes. 



Adrian, Mich.— W. H. Barrett, the 

 tomato seed grower, has bought a va- 

 cant factory building, 60x320 ft. This 

 will be used for curing, cleaning and 

 storing tomato seeds. 



San Francisco, Cal. — C. C. Morse & 

 Co. are negotiating for a large tract 

 of land in the vicinity of Haywards, 

 where they are contemplating start- 

 ing large seed farms. 



Nashville, Tenn. — The Nashville 

 Seed Company has recently given 

 their salesroom at 215 Second avenue, 



North, a thorough remodeling in 

 preparation for their spring trade. 



Chicago, 111. — The onion seed ware- 

 house of H. H. Chester was recently 

 destroyed by fire, together with about 

 30,000 bushels of onion sets. They 

 were fully insured and the fire has 

 not interfered with business. 



Fremont, Neb.— The Western Seed 

 Co. has considerably enlarged its 

 plant by adding a four-story building, 

 36x42 ft. This building increases the 

 storage capacity by 20,000 bushels and 

 gives additional space for the sacking. 

 Conveyers have been added as well 

 as another elevator, and a steam 

 heater for heating and drying 

 processes. 



MOVEMENTS OF GARDENERS. 



Dee Young, formerly of Springfield, 

 is to take charge of the greenhouses 

 of Mrs. George Hansen, Pittsfield, III. 



Charles Newton, who has been gar- 

 dener for some time to Mr. I. T. Bur- 

 den at Newport, R. I., has resigned 

 that position. 



CATALOGUE RECEIVED. 



Morris & Snow Seed Co., Los An- 

 geles, Cal. — "A Pew Hints on Garden- 

 ing." This catalogue lives up to its 

 name all right. Its descriptions and 

 cultural notes are tar in advance of 

 the ordinary catalogue notes and it 

 has an educational value much beyond 

 the average. 



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