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February 23, 1918 



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Retail Prices on Vegetable Seeds. 



The following table has been com- 

 piled from a large number of retail 

 mall order catalogs received from 

 representative seedsmen. The prices 

 given after each crop represent retail 

 prices of standard varieties for 1918, 

 and for the same varieties in 1917. So- 

 called novelties were not included. It 

 will be seen that all prices in 1918 are 

 higher than those in 1917. The in- 

 creases range from about 5 per cent, 

 on celery up to 260 per cent, on Swede 

 turnips. The average increase in cat- 

 alog prices on all the vegetable crops 

 listed as ^hown by this table is about 

 60 per cent. 



A study of the catalogs shows that 

 some seedsmen have endeavored to 

 maintain prices on many items ap- 

 pro.ximately the same as or but slight- 

 ly above I hose of last year, while other 

 seedsmen have raised their prices ma- 

 terially on practically all the items. 



Kentucky Blue Grass in Missouri and 

 Iowa 



Next to Kentucky, the largest pro- 

 ducer of blue grass in the country, 

 Missouri and Iowa rank as heavy pro- 

 ducers of this seed, their combined 

 normal crop amounting to from 150,- 

 000 to 175,000 bushels (14 pounds to 

 the bushel) of stripped or rough seed, 

 and when re-cleaned about 6.5 per cent 

 of this Is estimated as good, clean 

 seed ready for market. Missouri and 

 Iowa produced in 1917 only about 

 55.000 bushels stripped seed, Missouri 

 being the larger producer of the two. 

 The seed this year is of good quality, 

 as to weight, color and germination, 

 and seed when re-cleaned will make 

 21 pound to 24 pound stock. There 

 being practically no old seed carried 

 over by jobbers, and very little by the 

 tanners, the new seed has all moved 

 from the producer at good prices, 

 ranging from $1.00 to |1.75 per bushel. 



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the bulk of the seed being bought at 

 about $1.C0 per bushel. The total re- 

 cleaned seed from this section was 

 about fifteen cars of 30,000 pounds 

 each. This supply is insufficient to 

 meet normal demands and in conse- 

 quence considerable seed has been 

 shipped in from Kentucky. The gen- 

 eral movement of seed in carlots takes 

 place during November. December 

 and January, while local movement is 

 best in March. 



Boosting the Bean 



At the Farmers' Week Conference 

 in State College. Pa., on December 29, 

 Professor John R. Bechtel, a vepetable 

 growing expert, talked about beans 

 Ho said the price is now five hundred 

 per cent, higher than before the war. 

 He urged the growing of pea, or navy 

 beans by farmers as the most likely 

 variety to succeed if planted at the 

 rate of three pecks to the acre, with 

 rows twenty-eight inches apart. Th? 

 best planting time was placed from 

 June 1 to 25. All d scolored beans, 

 he suggested, should be discarded at 

 planting time to avoid disease, whlci, 

 is impossible of control, except through 

 careful seed selection. 



Beans, which he characterized as 

 the great wartime food, were said to 



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be grown successfully if the land was 

 well drained and was given thorough 

 preparation before planting. If sod 

 is turned under, said the speaker, no 

 fertilizer is needed on good soil other 

 than two hundred or three hundred 

 pounds of acid phosphate to the acre. 

 The average yield of beans was said 

 to be alx)ut eleven bushels per acre, 

 with twenty to thirty bushels some- 

 times grown by successful farmers. 

 The cost of production was placed at 

 thirty-five dollars to fifty dollars an 

 acre. With beans selling at ten dol- 

 lars a bushel wholesale and with no 

 reduction in sight. Professor Bechtel 

 advised Pennsylvanians to get into the 

 l)ean-growing game next season. 



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 Alfred Ross Campbell have opened a 

 seed store under the name of the 

 Campbell Seed & Supply Co. 



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