HOHTl CULTURE 



February IC, 1918 



SEED TRADE 



AMKRICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



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The eleventh annual convenlion ot 

 Ihe National Canners' Association 

 opened in Boston on Monday, Febru- 

 ary 11, In conjunction with the Na- 

 tional Canning Machinery and Sui>- 

 plles Association, and the National 

 Canned Foods and Dried Fruit Bro- 

 kers Association, in the Copley-Plaza, 

 the Hotel Brunswick and Mechanics 

 Hall. Following a session of the exec- 

 utive committees a general meeting 

 opened the convention in the ball room 

 ot the Copley-Plaza Tuesday after- 

 noon, with an attendance that filled 

 the big hall to the limit. It was esti- 

 mated that from two to three thousand 

 people were in attendance. It is the 

 first time the convention has met in 

 New England. 



President Henry I. Harriman ot the 

 Boston Chamber of Commerce pre- 

 sided at the opening session and wel- 

 comed the visitors in behalf of the 

 business community of Boston. Gov. 

 McCall voiced the greetings of • the 

 commonwealth, emphasizing the fact 

 that Massachusetts consumes very 

 largely the products of other states. 

 not being distinctly an agricultural 

 state. Mayor Peters welcomed the 

 visitors in the name of the city. He 

 told the canners that much depends on 

 them in the war, and urged them to 

 remember Boston's advantage.s for for- 

 eign trade after the war. 



The principal address was made at 

 the evening session by Chief Justice J. 

 H. Covington ot the Supreme Court of 

 the District of Columbia, a member of 

 the Railroad Rates Board, who made a 

 thrilling appeal for co-operation with 

 the Federal Government in supplying 

 food for the Allied troops in Europe. 



Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 

 were given over to the work of the as- 

 sociation sections, the tomatoes, baked 

 beans, home economics and sirup sec- 

 tions meeting on Tuesday; the pea. 

 sardine and milk sections on Wednes- 

 day, and the corn, fruit and krout sec- 

 tions on Thursday. The final meeting 

 was held Friday morning. 



Separate meetings were held by the 

 National Brokers' Association and the 

 Machinery Association and The Home 

 Economics Section, comprising the 

 women at the convention. The vast 

 exhibition halls ot the Mechanics 

 Building were filled with displays of 

 machinery, implements and supplies, 

 seeds, etc., etc., in wonderful variety, 

 no one being admitted except those 

 wearing badges. Among the seed 

 houses having booths were the follow- 



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To Miirk.1 «nrden.r« and norlhlB §_ §_ SKIDELSKY & CO. 



•flfatt and Light Sts., BALTIMORE, MD. ,j^ Lincoln Bldi., FUILADEU'UIA. pa. 



ing; John H. Allen Seed Co., Sheboy- ing, fertilizers, and feed for animal or 



gan. Wis.: W. W. Barnard Co., Chi- poultry consumption. 



cago; E. B. Clark Seed Co., Milford. 



Conn.; Hogg & Lytle, Toronto, Can.; VISITORS' REGISTER, 



N. B. Keeney & Son, LeRoy, N. Y.; st. Louis— T. U. Long, Chicago. 



D. Landreth Seed Co., Bristol, Pa.: ^ew- York— J. K. M. L. Farquhar, 



Leonard Seed Co., Chicago; Jerome B. Boston* 



Rice Seed Co., Cambridge, N. Y.; Ithaca, N. Y.— F. H. Traendly, New 

 Rogers Bros., Alpena, Mich.; F. H. York; Wm. Simpson, Clifton, N. J. 

 Woodruff & Sons, Milford, Conn.; S. U. Philadelphia — Dr. John H. Wash- 

 Woodruff & Sons, Orange, Conn. ),„,.„ Doylestown, Pa.; John A. Cook, 



Owing to the unusual conditions re- Beverly, N. J.; C. E. Scarborough, 



suiting from the war situation, the (jude Bros. Co., Washington, D. C; J. 



principal officers of the National Can- g Oeamud, Vaughan's Seed Store, 



ners were re-elected. They were: j^g^^. y^^jj. Alphonse Pericat, Colling- 



President, Henry Burden, Cazenovia, ^^^^^^ p^ . ^ q Neubrand, The Burr 



N. Y.; vice-president, Frank Gerber, xurseries, Manchester, Conn. 



Fremont, Mich.; secretary-treasurer, Boston— J. J. Lane, Garden Maga- 



Frank E. Gorre ll, Was hington, D. C. ^i„g Q^rden City. N. Y.; W. A. Manda, 



South Orange, N. J.; C. P. Guelf and 



Notes. jj jj Hedges, rep. Jerome B. Rice 



Sales of seed corn at $20 00 a bushe g^^^ ^,^^ Cambridge, N. Y.; John C. 

 and string beans at .?18.00 a bushe Leonard, rep. Leonard Seed Co., Chi- 

 were made by dealers to canners at ^^^^^ j„ . j^^^ Lembke, rep. W. W. 

 the Canners Convention in Boston. y^^nard Co., Chicago, 111.; F. H. Wood- 

 There was a very heavy demand for ^„^ ^^^j ^, ^ Woodruff, Milford, 

 sweet corn and pea se ed. (.q^^ . p^g^.j^ j^ f-j^^^k and Arthur B. 



We were much interested in the ex- f'lark, rep.. E. B. Clark Seed Co., Mil- 

 hibit of "Green Admiral" peas by ford. Conn.; A. L. Rogers and K. D. 

 Rogers Bros, of Alpena, Mich., at the Rose, rep. Rogers Bros., Alpena, Mich., 

 Boston exhibition showing the old and Idaho Falls, Ida.; S. F. Willard. 

 typical Admiral and the improved uni- Wethersfield, Conn.: S. Philip Land- 

 formly green product after twentv retb, John A. Hicks and W. C. Diesolf, 

 years' selection. The original objec- rep. D. Landreth Seed Co., Bristol, 

 tionable vellow color has been entirely Conn.; Watson Woodruff, assisted by 

 obliterated in the improved type. ^'r Merwin and Mr. Hayward, rep. S. 

 D. Woodruff & Sons, Orange, Conn.: 



A. H Smith, Regional Director of Morrison B. Robinson and R. J. Bowen. 



Eastern Railroads, under date of Jan- lep. J- Bolgiano & Son, Baltimore, Md. 

 nary 30, 1918, issued a memorandum 



to presidents of railroads in Official Cromwell, Conn. — I. Pedersen, who 



Classification Territory exempting cer- lias charge of the automobile trucks 



tain important commodities from em- at Cromwell Gardens, recently built a 



bargoes then in force. The list of the liouse on West street, opposite the 



commodities exempted includes, among greenhouses, and this house was totally 



others, field and garden seeds, seed destroyed by fire a little over a week 



potatoes, nursery stock, insecticides ago. The loss was about $4,000 but 



and spraying materials, agricultural the insurance will undoubtedly take 



implements required for spring plant- care of that. 



