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Jaiiiiury i::, 1918 



SEED TRADE 



AMKKICAS SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



<inir<Tn — I'rrnMrlil. F. W. Bolslaao, 

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Bolgiano's Seed Establishment Cele- 

 brates Its 100th Anniversary. 

 With the dawniii); of tlie new year, 

 Uolglano's Seed Establishment, Balti- 

 more, passes the 100th year mark of 

 Its existence, having been founded in 

 the year 1818 when Baltimore was re- 

 garded as not much mure than a side 

 station, by the present management's 

 great gnmdfather. in small quarters on 

 • South Calvert street. At the time of 

 the great Baltimore fire, they were 

 located at L#ombard and Light streets 

 where their buildings were entirely 

 wiped out by the great conflagration. 

 They then established their present 

 quarters at Pratt and Light streets 

 and have since acquired the new piers 

 and warehouses located on Key High- 

 way jnst opposite the new ten-million- 

 dollar piers. The waterfront property 

 includes their onion set and seed 

 potato warehouses, their new poultry 

 food manufacturing plant with a ca- 

 pacity of five thousand 100-pound bags 

 daily, also their special grass, clover 

 and field seed cleaning machinery 

 buildings. They have located at Raspe- 

 burg, Md.. their seed trial and testing 

 grounds, and large poultry farm and 

 hatcheries at Rossville, Md. They 

 annually market the product of over 

 100,000 acres of ground. 



They were the first seedsmen in 

 America to establish completely 

 equipiied seed analyzing and seed test- 

 ing laboratory. One hundred years of 

 success has placed the names of over 

 a half million customers on their 

 books. All over the United States 

 their seeds have been planted by 

 grandfathers, fathers and sons. 



John Bolgiano, Sr., was the head of 

 the firm from 182.5 until he retired in 

 1883. He died in 1892. Joseph A. Bol- 

 giano was head of the firm from 1883 

 until he retired in 1899. He had many 

 other interests identified with Balti- 

 more. He died in the year 1913. 



Charles J. Bolgiano, the present pro- 

 prietor, is well known to all Balti- 

 moreans. He is a member of many 

 civic, financial and fraternal organiza- 

 tions. Mr. Bolgiano has recently lent 



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his large business experience as well 

 as financial aid to the establishing and 

 maintenance of many philanthropic 

 and charitable institutions. 



Far-Reaching Legislation. 



Our readers will be interested to 

 learn that on January 4th, Senator 

 Weeks of Massachusetts introduced a 

 bill (S. 3344) to prohibit the importa- 

 tion of nursery stock into the United 

 States. The gist of the bill is, in a 

 few words, "that it shall be unlawful 

 for any person to import or offer for 

 entry into the United States any nur- 

 sery stock." 



Section 4 provides the definition of 

 nursery stock, to include all field- 

 grown florists' stock, trees, shrubs, 

 vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, 

 fruit pits, and other seeds of fruit, and 

 ornamental shrubs and other plants 

 and plant products for propagation, 

 except field, vegetable and flower seeds, 

 bedding plants, and other herbaceous 

 bulbs, plaiits and roots. 



The nursery and florists' trades are 

 on record as opposing legislation of 

 tliis character, and proper steps will 

 be taken to secure a fair discussion of 

 the merits of this bill in a hearing be- 

 fore the Senate Committee on Agri- 

 'ulture and Forestry. 



the American seed trade might safely 

 be trusted to take care of the farmers' 

 seed requirements. If "normal pro- 

 duction of the nation's food crops" is 

 dependent upon such action as the 

 foregoing indicates then the American 

 farmer has neither the "sand" nor the 

 .sagacity with which we have been 

 wont to credit him. — Ed. 



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Washington. .Tan. S. — If normal produc- 

 tion of the n-ntlon's food and feed crops Is 

 to be hod this year promi)t action to pro- 

 tect the seed supplies is necessary. Secre- 

 tary Houston warned Congress today In 

 asking for an urgent deOciency appropria- 

 tion for government purchase and sale of 

 seed to farmers at cost. 



— Press Despatch. 



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