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April i:!. 1!H8 



SEED TRADE_ 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



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 Uaahlncton. I>. C; Klriit \ lcr-l'r~ldf.Bt, 

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 Kcodcl, Cleveland, O. 



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Report on Seed Corn. 

 The seriousness ol the seeil corn sit- 

 uation in the central and north central 

 corn producing: areas warrants making 

 every possible effort, not only to con- 

 serve supplies, but to make provision 

 for an adequate and economic distribu- 

 tion of all seed corn that is suitable 

 and available for planting this spring. 

 Various agencies are assisting in the 

 present seed corn situation, but the 

 obstacles have been many and the 

 progress made has not seemed to meet 

 wholly the situation that prevails. 



The Bureau of Markets Seed Report- 

 ing Service is planning to issue special 

 weekly reports on seed corn beginning 

 April 6 and ending June 8, 1918, in 

 the central and north central corn 

 producing areas. The areas of serious 

 seed corn shortage practically com- 

 prise seed reporting divisions numbers 

 4. 5. and 6. which included Illinois, 

 Indiana. Ohio, Lower Michigan, and 

 Kentucky in Division 4; North Dakota. 

 South Dakota. Minnesota. Upper 

 Michigan, and Wisconsin in Division 

 5; and Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and 

 Missouri in Division 6. The head- 

 quarters of these divisions are respec- 

 tively: Chicago, 111.. Minneapolis. 

 Minn., and Kansas City, Mo. 



Every grower or dealer who handles 

 seed com in a commercial way, or who 

 has on hand approximately 50 bushels 

 or more of seed corn, at any time dur- 

 ing the period indicated above, is re- 

 quired by the Secretary of Agriculture, 

 under authority conferred upon him by 

 the food production Act (Public No. 40, 

 65th Congress), to report regularly to 

 the branch office of the Seed Reporting 

 Service of his division on forms pro- 

 vided for this purpose. The informa- 

 tion requested covers quantity, varie- 

 ties, prices, and germination of all 

 stocks of corn held for seed or offered 

 for sale as seed corn by growers and 

 dealers. The reports are to be mailed 

 to the branch office on Wednesday of 

 each week: the data will then be tabu- 

 lated and the summary of these data 

 mailed from the branch office of the 

 division on Saturday of the same week 

 to all who make reports of stocks or 

 holdings, and to any others who may 

 request that they be put upon the mail- 

 ing list to receive this service. 



In addition to the periodical weekly 

 reports which will be raallerl from the 

 branch office, the information received 

 will be kept on file and used for furn- 



ishing spedtlc Information to answer 

 special Inquiries that may come to the 

 oflice from either buyers or sellers of 

 seed corn. An endeavor will be made 

 to render every possible assistance in 

 order that every bushel of the avail- 

 able, limited supplies of seed corn In 

 this area may be put to the best pos- 

 sible use, and not a bushel of good seed 

 left unused at the end of the planting 

 season. 



Any one wishing to receive the re- 

 ports as issued should address the 

 branch office of the Seed Rei)ortlng 

 Service of the division in which he is 

 located. The addresses of these olli. ■ 

 are as follows: for Division 4. :•'.' 

 Board of Trade Building, Chicago, 

 111.; for Division 5, 320 Flour Ex- 

 change Building, Minneai:olis, Minn.; 

 and for Division 6, 222 Produce Ex- 

 change Building. Kansas City. Mo. 



The mailing lists of the Department 

 contain llie names and addresses of 

 practically all regular dealers and 

 growers of seed corn, but in the pres- 

 ent emergency there are many who are 

 handling seed corn, or who may have 

 stock on hand who would not regu- 

 larly be included in these lists. There- 

 fore it is requested that every one who 

 is engaged in the seed corn business 

 at this time in any way makes appli- 

 cation to the branch office of the 

 division in which he is located for 

 blanks upon which to make weekly 

 reports. 



The British Way 



I had an opiiortiinity the other day 

 of going through a busy seed-testing 

 establishment — not the new Govern- 

 ment station, but a place of great im- 

 portance to the seed-trade for all that. 

 It was an education as to the real im- 

 port of the new seed-testing order, 

 which, naturally, has brought about a 

 vast increase in the work handled. The 

 simple test of germination is but a 

 mere item in the whole programme, 

 for one finds the analysis of seeds, de- 

 tection of weeds, especially in grasses 

 and clovers, and the microscojiic ex- 

 amination of many seeds that are 

 liable to infestation of fungoid or other 

 diseases are dealt with with extreme 

 care and precision, and to see the re- 

 sults of such examination of samples 

 which upon a casual glance appeared 

 to be very good, leads one to realize 

 that irksome though new regulations 

 may be. the seed testing or<ler is calcu- 

 lated to be of considerable advantage 

 to the trade. — Hort. Trade Journal. 



Field and Garden Seed Exempt from 

 Embargoes 

 Field and garden seed will be uncon- 

 ditionally exempted from all em- 

 bargoes, according to an announcement 

 from the United States Department of 

 Agriculture following a conlerence be- 

 tween Edward Chambers, director of 

 traffic for the United States Railroad 

 Administration; Clarence Ousley, As- 

 sistant Secretary of Agriculture: and 

 other members of the Department of 



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HENRY F. MICHELLGO. 



518 Market St., PHILA. 



LILY 



OF THE 

 PIPS 



VALLEY 



Get these for .Meiiiurlal Day and 

 .luiie Sales, packed 2.J00 I'ips to the 

 case. Lots of 500 at the Ihousanil 

 rate. ¥3 per 100, $'37.SO per 1000, 

 f. o. b. Cold Storage New York City. 



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ARTHUR T.BODDINGTONCOjnc. 



I'JX Cliainliers St., New York City 



Agriculture. Instructions will be is- 

 sued to all railroads in the United 

 States by the director of traffic to do 

 everything possible to expedite the 

 movement of field and garden seed. 



Chicago Seed Trade 

 The Winterson Seed Co. report sales 

 in the retail department as the largest 

 Saturday for the season in their his- 

 tory. John Degnan says so thoroughly 

 have the newspapers prepared the 

 public for the advance in prices, 

 owing to scarcity of seed, that seldom 

 does a customer even remark about 

 it, also that the demand this season 

 for ornamental stock has swung back 

 almost to normal again and that the 

 call for small fruits, as currants, etc., 

 is noticeably increasing. 



Notes. 

 Flower seeds are selling much better 

 than anticipated this spring, according 

 to the leading seed dealers. Informa- 

 tion from Europe is also to the effect 

 that the flower seed business has in- 

 creased during the past year. 



Consul General W. Henry Robertson 

 reports from Buenos Aires, Argentina, 

 that numerous inquiries have been 

 made for flower and garden seeds and 

 nursery stock, and suggests that Amer- 

 ican exporters in this line send their 

 catalogues for the file of the consulate 

 general. 



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