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fiORTl CULTURE 



May 20, 1911 



Seed Trade 



Federal Seed Bill. 



Congressman Mann has introduced 

 a bill which prohibits the importation 

 into the United States of seeds of 

 alfalfa, barley, Canadian blue grass, 

 Kentucky blue grass, brome grass 

 (awnless), buckwheat, alsike clover, 

 crimson clover, red clover, white clo- 

 ver, field corn, Kaffir corn, meadow 

 fescue, flax, millet, oats, orchard 

 grass, rape, red top, rye, sorghum, tim- 

 othy, and wheat, which are adulter- 

 ated or unfit for seeding purposes 

 wfthin the meaning of the Act, but 

 seeds may be delivered to the owner 

 of them under bond to be recleaned 

 subject to such regulations as the Sec- 

 retary of the Treasury may provide 

 and then released to the owner there- 

 of, but the screenings removed from 

 the seeds must be disposed of in a 

 manner to be prescribed by the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture. 



The Act holds that seeds shall be 

 deemed adulterated "when seed of red 

 clover contains more than three per 

 centum of seed of yellow trefoil or any 

 other seed of similar appearance to and 

 of lower market value than seed of red 

 clover; second when seed of alfalfa 

 contains more than three per centum 

 of seed of yellow trefoil, burr clover, or 

 sweet clover, singly or combined; 

 third, when any kind or variety of 

 these seeds," named above, "contains 

 over five per centum of another kind 

 of variety of lower market value and 

 of similar appearance." 



Furthermore, "seed shall be con- 

 sidered unfit for seeding purposes 

 within the meaning of this Act: First, 

 when any kind or variety of clover 

 seed contains more than one seed of 

 dodder to 3000 seeds of clover; sec- 

 ond, when any kind or variety of the 

 seeds named in section 1 of this Act 

 contains more than three per centum 

 by weight of seeds of noxious weeds." 



Agricultural Department Tests. 

 The Department of Agriculture an- 

 nounces that as none of the samples 

 of alfalfa or red clover seed collected 

 during the calendar year 1909 were 

 found to be adulterated or misbranded, 

 these seeds were not collected for ex- 

 amination during 1910. Of 317 sam- 

 ples of orchard grass collected, twelve 

 were found to be adulterated with seed 

 of meadow fescue or rye-grass, as com- 

 pared with 55 samples found to be 

 adulterated in the calendar year 1909. 

 Of 371 samples of Kentucky blue grass 

 16 were found to be wholly or partly 

 seed of Canada blue grass. Of 526 

 samples of redtop, 176 contained tim- 

 othy seed. F. J. DYER. 



ACTINIDIA CHINENSIS, YANG TAU VINE. 



Notes. 



Louisville, Ky. — A seed warehouse 

 to cost $17,000 is to be erected at 1339 

 West Walnut street by Wood, Stubbs 

 & Co. 



Malvern, Iowa — A. H. Wilkinson of 

 Chicago is to have charge of the gar- 

 den seed department of the Summers' 

 Seed House. 



The Pennsylvania seed bill has 

 emerged from committee minus the 

 amendments of the Philadelphia dele- 

 gation of seedsmen — so the war is on 

 again. It would appear as it some- 

 body had acted in bad faith. More 

 later. 



The W. W. Barnard Co. have leased 

 the premises at 231-233-235 Madison 

 street, Chicago, 45 x 183 feet, a five- 



Male flowers from plants which have 

 flowered profusely for the past two sea- 

 sons at the Plant Introduction Garden, 

 Chico, California. Photographed April 



18, 1910. The four vines at the Garden 

 introduced in 1904, have borne only 

 male flowers. Female plants are being 

 imported by the Dept. of Agriculture. 



story building (occupied at present by 

 the Chicago American Newspaper), 

 and after thoroughly remodeling same, 

 expect to occupy the new quarters, 

 Januarv 1st, 1912. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



A. distinguished visitor arrived on 

 these shores on the S. S. Caledonia on 

 the 8th inst. — Frank Cuthbertson — son 

 of the senior member of the firm of 

 Dobbie & Co., of Rothesay and Edin- 

 burgh, Scotland. Of course, he took 

 the first train for Philadelphia, where 

 he was received with open arms by 

 the trade. On Tuesday he visited 

 Scott's nurseries at Sharon Hill and 

 on Wednesday took in Fordhook. He 

 will spend a year in California before 

 returning home. 



The Farm Journal has completed 

 contracts for its monumental new 

 building, and will commence opera- 

 tions in the near future. The location 

 will be at 7th street and Washington 

 square, nearly opposite where the pa- 

 latial new home of the Ladies' Home 

 Journal and the Saturday Evening 

 Post is now approaching completion. 

 We are told on good authority that 

 the spring editions of the Farm Jour- 

 nal have averaged this year 950,000 

 monthly, so it would appear that 

 Messrs. Atkinson & Jenkins are pret- 

 ty near "that million" they have been 

 shouting about since their 100,000 

 days. If ever there was a case of de- 

 served success, this is one. They 

 may make the F. J. bigger in the years 

 to come, but they will never make it 

 better than it has been for the past 25 

 years. 



A good story is going the rounds in 

 Harrisburg at the expense of our 

 Senator Heacock and a few other stal- 

 wart apostles of the doctrine of plain 

 living and high thinking. It appears 

 that some of the younger bloods, 

 when letting off steam and induging 

 in joy riding of more or less severity, 

 have represented themselves to be 

 Messrs. Heacock, et al. Such proced- 

 ure seemed to these sinners to be 

 very humorous. The victims of this 

 unconscionable conduct take a differ- 

 ent view of it. Your correspondent 

 was asked, with a scowl (just as if he 



had had something to do with It) 

 what he thought of the proposition. 

 We were non-committal but our pri- 

 vate opinion is that they (the stal- 

 warts) are getting their reputation 

 cheap. Usually it costs a whole lot of 

 real money to achieve distinction in 

 that line. 



Visitors: J. N. King, Norristown, 

 Pa.; Parker Thayer Barnes, Harris- 

 burg, Pa.; W. C. Langbridge, Cam- 

 bridge, N. Y.; J. Riley, Trenton, N. J.; 

 G. Rosbach, Pemberton, N. J.; Frank 

 Cuthbertson, Edinburgh. Scotland; 

 Wm. Duckham, Madison, N. J.; Ber- 

 trand H. Farr, Reading, Pa. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Cambridge City, Ind. — M. H. Gaar 

 has purchased a tract of land near 

 here for the establishment of a nur- 

 sery. 



Leominster, Mass. — About $500 worth 

 of glass was broken by a wind storm 

 in the greenhouse of George M. Ken- 

 dall recently. 



Minneapolis, Minn. — A greenhouse is 

 to he included in the equipment of 

 the new High school on Fourth ave- 

 nue and 34th street. 



Kingman, Kan. — A flower and vege- 

 table growing business has been 

 started here by Riggs & Johnson. 

 They have one house and are erecting 

 another. 



Coeur d'Alene, Idaho — .\dolph Don- 

 art, florist, has purchased property 

 across the street from his greenhouse 

 and will move his residence there, so 

 as to have room to enlarge his green- 

 house. 



Washington, D. C. — Gude Brothers 

 Co. have purchased from the Washing- 

 ton T-,oan and Trust Co. the property 

 formerly owned by The American 

 Rose Company, consisting of eight 

 acres of land with greenhouses and 

 other buildings. The extensive range 

 of houses is in bad shape, and will 

 be torn down and rebuilt for rose- 

 growing purposes, for which the loca- 

 tion seems ideal. It is within a stone's 

 throw almost of the Capitol building, 

 and in course of time the land should 

 prove a good investment for the 

 Gudes. The old Strauss place — 1% ! 

 acres — is not included in the deal. 



