December 30, 191G. 



HORTICULTURE 



879 



SEED TRADE 



AM ERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



Officers — President, Klrby B. White, 

 Detroit Mich.; First Vlce-Freslilent, F. 

 W, BolKiano, WashinKton, D. C. ; Sec> 

 ODd VIce-l^resideDt, L. L. Olds. Madison, 

 Wis.; Secretary -Treasurer, C. K. Keudel, 

 Cl«>\ eland, O. 



Record Prices. 

 The seed situation does not ease up 

 as the season advances, excepting pos- 

 sibly in the matter of seed corn. Pre- 

 dictions of record high prices made in 

 these columns some weeks ago have 

 already been realized. For instance: 

 Alaska peas have sold as high as 

 $12.50 per 100 lbs. and there are ap- 

 parently reliable reports that they 

 have sold as high as $13. 5o per 100. 

 This seems to be a record price for 

 this variety, and it is questionable 

 whether they ever sold at so high a 

 figure in large quantities. The green 

 sweet wrinkled sorts which have not 

 been in demand excepting by canners 

 have suddenly become popular for ex- 

 port, and have recently been sold at 

 $9.50 per 100 lbs. 



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To Sell by Weight Instead of Measure. 

 Right here it may be well to call at- 

 tention to a plan which while not new 

 in theory is practically new in prac- 

 tice, that is. the selling of peas, beans 

 and corn by weight instead of by 

 measured bushel. There is no ques- 

 tion whatever about the plan being 

 far preferable to the old way of sell- 

 ing by the bushel. The latter plan 

 was prolific of complaints because of 

 shortages, and this cannot occur where 

 the goods are sold by weight, except- 

 ing through some one's carelessness, 

 and any shortage can be easily made 

 good. One of the prime causes which 

 has led the seedsmen, and particularly 



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the seed growers, to decide to sell 



their products by weight instead of 

 measure is the conflicting state laws 

 fixing the weight of a bushel. It has 

 been the custom of the pea and bean 

 growers from the earliest days of the 

 seed business to consider 60 pounds a 

 bushel of the round smooth peas, and 

 56 of the sweet wrinkled varieties. 

 These weights were fixed after long 

 experience and were based on a just 

 quantity to the bushel, but our ignor- 

 ant and demagogic law-makers with 

 the idea of currying favor with the 

 farmers have made 60 pounds arbi- 

 trarily a bushel without regard to 

 variety. When peas are worth $10.00 

 and $12.00 a bushel it is easy to see 

 what loss the seed grower would sus- 

 tain by being obliged to give away 

 four pounds to every bushel. It is to 

 avoid complaints and endless discus- 

 sion that the seed growers are making 

 an effort to introduce the cental sys- 

 tem. One can appreciate that at the 

 beginning this change is liable to be a 

 little confusing, but we shall all 

 speedily become accustomed to it and 

 learn to think in pounds as readily 

 as we do now in bushels. 



Effect of Export Demand on Seed Peas 



What has really made the price of 

 dried peas this year has been the ex- 

 port demand. This has been very 

 heavy up to a very recent date, and 

 just at present trade in this line is 

 very quiet, but it is expected to revive 

 and become active again within the 

 next few weeks. This foreign demand 

 lias had much to do in fixing the prices 

 of future peas, because the growers 

 realize that they will have at least 

 one year more of very active demand 

 from Europe for dried peas for culi- 

 nary purposes, and should the war in 

 Europe continue over another year it 

 will mean that the demand will con- 

 tinue, just so long as tlie war lasts 

 and for practically one year after its 

 close. To those who are buyers of 

 peas in quantities, whether canners or 

 seedsmen, it would seem to be an act 

 of wisdom to cover one's future re- 

 (luirements quite thoroughly while the 

 present situation exists, as any price 

 named now by the growers is liable to 

 look low a year hence. 



It is exceedingly fortunate for the 

 seed growers that the foreign demand 

 has been so strong, while they had a 

 large surplus of peas to sell. The can- 

 ners are the largest consumers of peas 

 for seed purposes, but they are difTi- 



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