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HOini CULTURE 



Sppleinb«r 8. 1917 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SKBI) TkADB ASSOCIATION 



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Seed Corn Selection Now. 



The acre yield of rorn in the United 

 States I'ould and should be preatly 

 increased, according lo the Tnited 

 Stated Department of Apriculture. 

 The average jirodvictlon for the conn- 

 trv is 26 bushels an acre, though 

 yields as high as 200 bushels have 

 been made by contestants in lioys' 

 corn dubs. 6eed corn should be 

 selected from stalks standing where 

 they grew. This is necessary because 

 it is the means of making sure that 

 the seed will have the power to yield 

 well, as shown by the superiority of 

 the stalks over surrounding ones that 

 grew under the same conditions. This 

 sort of seed inherits high producing 

 power. It must be understood that 

 an early-mBturing corn yielding abun- 

 dantly on short, thick stalks is likely 

 to repeat these same characters in the 

 next generation. For example, seed 

 corn should be taken from stalks 

 without suckers; such seed may pro- 

 duce some stalks with suckers but it 

 will invariably produce fewer suckers 

 than seed from sucker-bearing stalks. 

 All seed com should be selected by 

 hand, as a special task, and not inci- 

 dental to busking. The corn should 

 be gathered as soon as thoroughly 

 mature and before the first hard 

 freeze. Enough should be gathered 

 for two seasons' planting to insure a 

 supply of seed if. for example, the 

 first planting is drowned out or if the 

 next crop should be hurt by early 

 frost. 



The same day that seed corn is 

 gathered from standing stalks as they 

 grow in the field, the husked ears 

 should be put in a dry place where 

 there is a free circulation of air, and 

 so placed that the ears do not touch 

 one another. Much good seed has 

 been ruined because it was thought 

 to be dry enough when gathered. 

 Many farmers think that their 

 autumns are so dry that these pre- 

 cautipns are not necessary, yet 

 there is no locality where the corn 

 will not be bettered by a thorough 

 drying treatment. If corn is left in 

 the husk it may sprout or mildew 

 during warm wet weather, and it is 

 more likely to become infested with 

 weevils. The vitality of seed may be 

 reduced by leaving it in a sack or in 

 a pile for even a day after it has been 

 gathered. During warm fall days, 

 with some moisture in the cobs and 

 kernels, the ears heat or mildew in a 

 remarkably short time. 



The best and cheapest treatment 

 immediately after the ears are gath- 

 ered and husked is to tie the ears 

 singly on binder twine at about 

 eight-inch intervals, the twine being 

 looped about the middle of the ears 

 so that they hang balanced and hori- 

 zontal. Ordinary binder twine is 

 strong enough to support from 15 to 

 20 ears. 



Large Potato Crop In New Brunswick. 

 Koporlti Hhiiw that the potato acre- 

 age In Ni'W lirunswick is greater thiui 

 It was In 1!'16, and so far the crop has | 

 doni- well. Marring rust or rot dur 

 ing the remainder <if the suninx'r and 

 early autumn the Province should bar 

 vest one of the largewl crops of pota- 

 toes on record. Ueports from all sec 

 tlons are to the same effect — that 

 there will be an enormous crop of the 

 t\il)ers. It is freely predicted that $1,511 

 per barrel will be the ruling price next 

 autumn and winter, and some even 

 predict $1 per barrel. No contracts for 

 potatoes are being made, and what i 

 few have been made were closed early \ 

 In the year before the situation had 

 unfolded Itself. ' 



Notes. 

 Mount Pleasant, Mich.— The Harris 

 Bros. Seed Company has Increased Its 

 capital stock from $25,ii00 to $250,000. 



I. N. Simon & Co., seedsmen, 6 No. 

 Front street. Philadelphia, have leased 

 the building at 4'M Market street and 

 will move about October 1. 



MICHELL'S 



NEW CROP 



PANSY SEED 



MK III I I.N <.I\ST KXIIIBITION 

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 tii-avy h'ltiirf iinil \arlcil colors and 

 ■ liiidi'ii rHutiot III- auriiuiiwd. Half tr. 

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KIO 1.000 

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Orandlflora Alba. White... 1.2S 10.00 

 l'rlncr«» of Walrs. I'lnk... 1.25 10.00 

 .Sulmon gurrn. Salioon piDk 1.25 10.00 



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Send ffir iiiir lat*-*! \Vh*le*«Jn ChIaIobii 



HENRY F. MICHELL CO. 



518 Markat St., Philadetphia. Pa. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 

 .1. Bolgiano & Son. Baltimore. Md. — 

 1917 Wholesale Summer and Fall 

 Prices. Seeds and plants. Illustrated. 



William Elliott & Sons, New York 

 City — Autumn Catalogue of Bulbs and 

 Seeds, 1917. For the trade only. 

 Illustrated. 



Conard & .lones Co., West Grove, Pa. 

 -"Xew Floral Guide," Autumn, 1917 

 Illustrated. .Amaryllis hybrids and 

 roses in color shown on covers. 



Kroeschell Bros. Co., Chicago, III. — 

 .N'ew Catalogties describing the High 

 Pressure Kroeschell Steam Boiler. 

 This boiler is manufactured in units 

 ranging from 100 horse power to 350 

 horse power and is primarily designed 

 for use in large heating plants. This 

 book is a splendid example of cata- 

 logue making. There are many very 

 fine illustrations from photographs 

 and drawings and the text is "chock 

 full of meat." 



JXJST A.I 



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F>er \A/Hi-t< 



raridi-Tl^ri 



WHITE ROMAN HYACINTHS 



Sizes, 12 c m and up, 13 c m and up, 14 cm and up. 

 Write for quotations, stating quantity required 



McHUTCHISON & CO. 



The Import Hoa$e 95 Chainber$ Street, NEW YORK 



L-EIOIMAIRD'S SEIEDS 



and SEIEID SEIIRVIOI^ 



FOR SALE BY 



LEONARD SEED COMPANY, Chicago, III. 



"Seeds with a T inrnge " All VarieAiet 



Thoroughly tested at our trial grounds, Ra^TK 

 Park, London, Elngland. S^nd for Catalogue 



CARTERS TLSTED SEEDS, Inc., 



leC CkaaWaf 

 CoBmctc* BUt.,Bo>toii, Mau. 



