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than a amaU perccutuKc ki thi* amount j 

 aKrced upon. 



The cniinor« thon. of n neccs»lty, np- 

 liealod ti) llio BeeiJsnien for secJ. to 

 the very siime niorrhoiits whom tlioy 

 hnd turiiod down but a few months 

 provldusly. Those socdHnii-n did not 

 hnvp liny Kurplus stock with which to 

 supiily the canirfrs and so informed 

 them. 



The Wisconsin canners then, In des- 

 peration, appealed lo the Food Admini- 

 stration, statins that they diil not have 

 seed with which to plant their litis 

 crops and that If seed was not forth- 

 cominf:: they would not be able to oper- 

 ate tlieir plants. The Food Admini- 

 stration after laklnR the matter under 

 advisement decided that seed peas 

 should bo placed uiion the conservation 

 list. 



The above facts constitute a true 

 story of the cause leading up to the 

 present seed pea situation. II" the Food 

 Administration continues its present 

 plans relative to regulatlnp the distri- 

 bution of seed peas, we know tliat 

 every seed firm in the trade will pladly 

 co-ojierate with the Administration to 

 the fullest extent, but we feel that the 

 facts leading up to the present situa- 

 tion slio\ild be made public, so that 

 the seedsmen will not be blamed for 

 the present condition of affairs. — The 

 Heed World. 



Notes. 



New York.— Weeber & Don have 

 added to their staff, W. R. Smith, for- 

 merly with Peter Henderson & Co. 

 Mr. Smith is to be manager in charge 

 of the retail store. 



Charles J. Bolgiano and his asso- 

 ciates in Bolgiano's Seed Store, ^Ym. 

 H. Mihm, .John H. Joyeux, Albert F. 

 Seim, Miss Jessie L. Anderson, Rozell 

 J. Bowen, Frederick H. Thayer, Claude 

 B. Ramsay. Morris B. Robinson and 

 Harry P. Yerby, of Baltimore, Md.. 

 purchased fifty thousand dollars worth 

 of Liberty Bonds of the second Liberty 

 Loan. They also purchased ten thou- 

 sand dollars worth of the first loan. 

 Mr. Bolgiano has also been an ardent 

 ■worker for the Y. M. C. A. Last week 

 he made several addresses in the large 

 factory buildings throughout the city. 



A BANK'S WAR GARDEN SHOW. 



A San Francisco bank lately held 

 an exhibit of the produce from a war 

 garden planted by one of its staff on 

 a lot 30 by 100 feet. Among the pro- 

 duce shown were dressed Belgian 

 hares, eggs, and half a dozen different 

 kinds of vegetables, with berries, ac- 

 companied by a poster giving details 

 of production. The young Belgian 

 does substantially reduce the family's 

 meat bill. Six hens laid an average 

 ■ f four eggs a day, and a patch of 

 i;""alfa 25 feet square supplied food for 

 th: hares and grain stuff for the chick- 

 ens all year round. Seven sacks of 

 potatoes were har^-ested from a plot 

 27 by 45 feet in size, which also 

 yielded squash between the rows. 

 Green peas were raised in succession 

 to supply the table four months on a 

 plot 12 by 18 feet. Berries were 

 trained on the garden fence. 



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.•\l the recent convention of the 

 American Chemical Society, at the In- 

 stitute of Technology at Cambridge, 

 Mass., speaking before the fertilizer 

 division, Alfred H. Cowles of New .ler- 

 sey and Alfred W. Scheldt discussed 

 the preparation of a new fertilizer 

 made from calcium silicates, supply- 

 ing lime and soluble silicates for im- 

 proving plant growths. This new fer- 

 tilizer, the speaker said, has already 

 been found to be of great benefit to 

 the growing of tobacco, sugar and 

 other beets, buckwheat, clover and 

 grass. Experiments have befen made 

 with clover which show that one-third 

 more luxuriance has been developed 

 through the use of soluble silica, this 

 result having been confirmed by state 

 agricultural experimental sections all 

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 that it is now well known that soils 

 which contain a great deal of humus 

 and which have not been cultivated 

 conserve the natural silica for future 

 plant growth. Soils which are under 

 constant cultivation are robbed of this 

 silica with the taking of the crops, 

 and so must have the silica or its 

 equivalent returned to maintain pro- 

 ductivity. 



"Tlie future," declared Scheldt, "de- 

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 edge of those mineral constituents 

 that go to constitute the proper mix- 

 ture of essential fertilizers to apply 

 to our soils, in the light of whatever 

 variable composition the soil and 

 water may have." 



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 COLLEGE. 



"Stan" DuflTill, '17, Is now at Green's 

 Farms, Conn, on the estate of E. T. 

 Bedford. 'He writes that ,lohn Ness, 

 formerly of Faulkner Farms, is there 

 also in charge of the greenhouses. 

 Speaking of the estate, he writes: 

 "Outside there is this fine formal gar- 

 den, which attracts the visitors, com- 

 posed of perennials, etc., with a rock- 

 ery and pool attached. The lawn of 

 the main house runs right down to the 

 ocean and commands a fine view of 

 Long Island Sound. On the whole, 

 this is quite a fine place and Is well 

 known in this part of the country." 



Professor W. D. Clark, head of the 

 Department of Forestry, has been 

 granted leave of absence from college 

 duties to take up work on Fuel Con- 

 servation. F. A. C. Smith, Extension 

 Landscape man, has taken up the work 

 in Forestry. 



H. A. Pratt, '17 ("Hap") has left S. 

 J. Goddard's at Framingham to take 

 charge of the work in Floriculture at 

 Kansas. State University. 



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 the New Cumberland Floral Company 

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