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/iokticulturb: 



August 25, 190G 



Seed Trade Topics 



It is rumored that Prof. A. J. Pieters, 

 Chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. 

 C. is to retire from that position and 

 take up the business of seed growing 

 in California. No official confirmation 

 of the rumor has been obtained, but 

 it is the revival of a rumor which was 

 in circulation last spring. 



Mr. J. A. W. Tracy who is Prof. 

 Pieters' chief of staff, is mentioned as 

 his probable successor. Mr. Tracy 

 who was married early in the summer, 

 or rather late in the spring, has re- 

 cently returned to his desk after an 

 extended tour of the west including 

 the Pacific slope. 



The campaign against the free seed 

 distribution has opened, and with the 

 cordial backing of the National Grange 

 and the state and local granges all 

 over the country, it ought to be suc- 

 cessful. Could this system of petty 

 graft be submitted to the popular vote, 

 it is safe to say ninety per cent, of the 

 voters would be against it. It is hardly 

 conceivable that a coterie of grafting 

 congressmen will be able to success- 

 fully resist popular sentiment much 

 longer. It is estimated that nearly 

 one-third of all the packet seeds used 

 in the United States are given away by 

 the Government. What other industry 

 would long endure such an outrage? 

 Decent regard by Congress for the in- 

 terests of the seedsmen of this country 

 is long overdue. 



The Templin Co., of Calla, Ohio, 

 have bought out the business of 

 Walker & McLean at Youngstown, and 

 will make the place a flrst-class seed 

 and flower emporium. John Walker 

 will have charge of the green-houses 

 at Crab Creek as formerly. It is said 

 that much of the shipping of the firm 

 will be done from Youngstown. but the 

 main offices of the Templin Co. will 

 remain at Calla where the large nurser- 

 ies are located. 



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