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HORTICULTURE 



September 6, 1913 



Seed Trade 



Estimates. 



How rapidly has the summer flown, 

 and soon we shall say, "The summer 

 is past, the harvest is ended," and we 

 can ask, "what has the harvest been?" 

 Shortly we shall be able to answer this 

 question, but just now estimates are 

 the nearest we can get to it, and these 

 only general in the main. Few crops 

 have been harvested and growers are 

 reluctant to put their estimates into 

 figures. Since our last crop notes, no 

 changes ot importance have occurred. 

 We can add but little to what we said 

 about peas. Conditions are apparently 

 favorable, but until threshing has be- 

 come general, thus revealing the actu- 

 al yields, all estimates are really 

 guesses. 



It may be well to call attention to 

 what may prove to have been an Im- 

 portant factor affecting the crop. Our 

 readers will, no doubt, recall our re- 

 porting a severe frost late in July over 

 a considerable part of Montana and 

 Idaho, and which undoubtedly caused 

 more or less damage, but whether 

 more, or less, remains to be shown. 

 It is a curious fact that the pods of 

 peas which have been frozen often con- 

 tinue to grow, sometimes attaining un- 

 usual size, but without a single well- 

 developed pea, while young peas part- 

 ly grown have to be discarded because 

 of their vitality being destroyed. Un- 

 der such circumstances unless esti- 

 mates are made only after very pains- 

 taking investigation, they are liable to 

 be very misleading, and wide of the 

 facts. It may be recalled that some 

 estimates last year were very inaccur- 

 ate, due mainly to the cause above 

 mentioned. 



Beans, Corn and Cabbage. 



Ill news comes to us about beans. 

 The long period of drought, combined 

 with the intense heat prevailing much 

 of the time has caused severe damage 

 to the crop in Michigan and New York 

 State. The character of the soil chosen 

 as a rule for beans, is a sandy or grav- 

 elly loam, and therefore not well 

 adapted to resisting drought. It seems 

 to be generally agreed that we are in 

 for a short crop of beans, though the 

 extent of the shortage no man knows. 



It is much the same with corn, both 

 sweet and field varieties. Some very 

 good judges estimate the shortage from 

 25 to 50 per cent, of an average yield. 

 Undoubtedly, corn all over the coun- 

 try has' been pretty hard hit, and 

 choice seed is likely to reach a higher 

 level of prices than for several years 

 past. It is reported that canned corn 

 has advanced 20 per cent, in the past 

 two months despite the heavy carry 

 over, much the largest in the history 

 ot the canning industry. 



More definite information about the 

 cabbage seed crop of Long Island 

 shows that it was not over 50 per cent. 

 of an average. We have received no 

 figures from Puget Sound — simply that 

 the crop was short. 



European Root Crops. 



; The European shortage in biennials, 

 particularly roots, will, with the possi- 

 ble exceptfoTT ■ Of turnips, be fully 

 evened up by the large carry over, and 



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 While there will doubtless be a firmer 

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 ticeable advance on three or four vari- 

 eties, there will be no justification for 

 famine prices, and such prices are 

 quite improbable. 



In the West. 



We are unable to chronicle any ma- 

 terial changes in the crop situation of 

 California, but the seed growers would 

 like to be shown some way to success- 

 fully cope with the pea aphis or pea 

 louse, which for two years past has 

 been such a factor in destroying the 

 sweet pea crop. Come forward, ye in- 

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 want. 



We have had one or two letters from 

 a well known expert who has recently 

 returned from an extended visit to the 

 pea growing districts of Montana and 

 Idaho. He says conditions generally 

 are favorable as to appearances, but 

 calls attention to the freeze of July 

 last which he believes to have been 

 very disastrous, especially in sections. 

 He discourses on the purity of the seed 

 stock, evidently having devoted con- 

 siderable attention to this feature, and 

 he warmly commends those of the 

 Jerome B. Rice Seed Co., while he 

 praises the types of several other grow- 

 ers but omits to mention any names. 

 The recent rains have been of incal- 

 culable benefit to all crops excepting 



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