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11 o i; r 1 c u LT u i< E 



A|)ril i\. 191S 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



(iniorra — I'rrililrnt. F. \V. BoIcIboo, 

 \\»hlnKl»n. I>. C; Flr«t Vlc«-Prr«l€l«»t, 

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 > lrr-l'rf-Bl<lriit. Ilittlil lluri>«r. I'hllaJrl- 

 plil». I'*.; (.iTrrH«r)r-TrT»»urer, C. K. 

 K«Dd»l, CUvclaiid, O. 



Some Encouragement. 



We have received through a inisi- 

 worthy medium some reassuring in- 

 formation concerning the purpose and 

 proposed carrying-out of the recently 

 declared embargoes on various horti- 

 cultural imports, such as plants, 

 shrubs and vines. It is stated thai 

 the problem of the War Trade Board 

 and the Shipping Board is one of ton- 

 nage, and of doing everything possible 

 to further the successful prosecution 

 of the war and it is on account of these 

 paramount considerations that in 

 many cases it has become necessary 

 to take the action in question. At the 

 present time it seems probable there 

 will be available cargo space from the 

 principal French and English ports, 

 from time to time, but the question of 

 tonnage from Holland is more proble- 

 matical. The limitation of importa- 

 tions from Europe is based only on the 

 emergency of the tonnage situation 

 and no unnecessary interference with 

 the nursery stocks is intended. So it 

 is quite likely that as to French goods 

 import licenses may be secured for 

 shipments from convenient ports like 

 Bordeaux, when loaded without delay, 

 and other important French and 

 English ports. We are also advised 

 that for the present palmseeds will be 

 considered to be on the restricted list 

 as palm nuts, under classification of 

 "Nuts." 



Connecticut Seed Corn Should Be 

 Certified 



Buyers of Connecticut grown seed 

 corn have been warned by officials 

 of the College of Agriculture of 

 that state that unless the seed stock 

 Is accompanied by a certified germi- 

 nation test, it cannot be depended 

 upon. They have written K. C. Hatch 

 of Wisconsin Agriculture Extension 

 that tests have been conducted on a 

 large number of seed samples and, in 

 spite of the fact that the corn in that 

 state was fully mature last fall and In 

 fairly good condition, only 20 per cent, 

 of the corn will germinate 85 per cent, 

 or better. 



New York — The huge Nungesser- 

 Dickinson seed establishment at 

 Twelfth and Hudson streets, Hoboken. 

 has been taken over by the govern- 

 ment at a price said to be approxi- 

 mately $900.0no. The business is ons 

 of the largest in Hoboken, and is the 

 biggest of its kind along the entire At- 

 lantic seaboard. It is not thought that 

 there will be any change in manage- 

 ment or in the conduct of affairs at the 

 plant. Machinery and products will 

 most likely bo lined up to help the 

 government in its program of in- 

 creased food crops. The Nungesser- 

 Dickinson firm is prepared to help 

 make effective the slogan that "Food 

 will win the war." 



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THE VALUE OF ORGANIZATION. 



From the Remarks of P. C. O'Mara at tbc 

 F. T. D. Meeting in Detroit. 



No man can succeed by himself; 

 nothing in nature operates alone; even 

 the snowdrops co-operate and help one 

 another. 



The snowdrop ne.stlinpr In Its fleecy bed 

 On the liills would quickly melt; 

 Hut "I'll help you and you help me 

 Then sec what a great white drift there'll 

 be." 



Gentlemen, that is the message to 

 you this morning from old Mother 

 Nature, whose laws no man can vio- 

 late with impunity and not receive a 

 penalty. 



One thought, and then I am through. 

 The value of organization is empha- 

 sized in this story of a colored man. 

 By the way, some of our colored 

 brothers are wonderful natural phil- 

 osophers. A philosopher is one who 

 studies effects by their causes. Did 

 the gentleman that produced this 

 magnificent rose attain it by giving 

 himself a hypodermic injection and 

 going to bed and wishing? (Applause.) 

 No; but he was willing to spend his 

 money, he was willing to spend that 

 which no money can get, his personal 

 power and sacrifice, to even with- 

 stand the ridicule of his friends who 

 stood by and said, "Well, Hiram, I 

 don't believe it can be did." Hut we 

 wake up some fine morning and we 

 are surprised to see the man who did 

 it. Well, gentlemen, this colored man 

 was driving a traveler down the road 

 one day in Arkansas, and he had a 

 long whip with a lash on the end of 

 it. He was very expert with it. The 

 traveler saw a bee upon a flower, and 

 said, "Rastus, can you hit that bee?" 

 "Yass, Boss. 1 can hit it" — and he did. 

 They drove along a little further and 

 they -saw two more bees. The trav- 

 eler said. "Rastus, can you hit both 

 of them?" "Yass, Ross, I can do that," 

 — and he did it. They drove along a 

 little further, and the traveler said, 



"Rastus! " "Yass, Boss"; and the 

 traveler said, "Rastus, what is that?" 

 Rastus said, "Boss, that is a wasp 

 nest," "Can you hit that, Nigger?" 

 "Yass, Boss, I can— I can hit it— but 

 I am not monkeying with that; that's 

 organized." tl^ughter.) 



THE OFFICIAL U. S. BULLETIN. 



Owing to the enormous increase of 

 government war work the government- 

 al departments at Washington are be- 

 ing flooded with letters of inquiry on 

 every conceivable subject concerning 

 the war, and it has been found a physi- 

 cal impossibility for the clerks, though 

 they number an army in themselves 

 now, to give many of these letters 

 proper attention and reply. There Is 

 published daily at Washington, a gov- 

 ernment newspaper — The Official U. 

 S. Bulletin. This newspaper prints 

 every day all of the more important 

 rulings, decisions, regulations, procla- 

 mations, orders, etc., etc., as they are 

 promulgated by the several depart- 

 ments and the many special commit- 

 tees and agencies now in operation at 

 the National Capital. This official 

 journal is posted daily in every post- 

 office in the United States, more than 

 .'ie.OOO in number, and may also be 

 found on file at all libraries, boards of 

 trade and chambers of commerce, the 

 offices of mayors, governors, and oth- 

 er federal officials. By consulting these 

 files most questions will be found 

 readily answered; there will be little 

 necessity for letter writing; the un- 

 necessary congestion of the mails will 

 be appreciably relieved; the railroads 

 will be called upon to move fewer cor- 

 respondence sacks, and the mass of 

 business that is piling up in the gov- 

 ernment departments will be eased 

 considerably. Hundreds of clerks now 

 answering correspondence will be en- 

 abled to give their time to essential 

 important war work, and the public 

 will have performed a patriotic serv- 

 ice. 



