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HORTICULTURE 



July 6, 1912 



Seed Trade 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIA- 

 TION. 



An abridged account of the first and 

 second day's proceedings appeared in 

 cur issue of last week. On Wednes- 

 day morning, June 26, papers were 

 read by L. S. Gould of Waterloo, Neb., 

 on Seed Corn Breeding, Lester L. 

 Morse, San Francisco, on Costs and 

 Cost Systems. After discussion a spe- 

 cial committee on "Overhead Costs" 

 was named to report later. 



On Thursday morning the follow- 

 ing resolutions were reported: 



Resolved, That this Association eudorses 

 the Bill H. B. 22340, entitled: "An Act to 

 Regulate Foreign Commerce by I'rohlbit- 

 ing the Admission into the United States 

 of Certain Adulterated Seeds and Seeds 

 Unfit for Seeding Purposes," now pending 

 In the Senate of the United States, in the 

 form as passed by the House of Represen- 

 tatives of April loth, 1912; 



Resolved further. That this Association 

 is opposed to Section Four (4), the proposed 

 Senate Amendment to said Bill, to impose 

 heavy fines and imprisonment, for, among 

 others, the follo-n-ing reasons: 



First: The bill provides ample author- 

 ity (Section one) tor the Secretaries of the 

 Treasury and of Agriculture effectively to 

 prevent" the importation of objectionable 

 seeds ' 



Second: Said penalties are conse- 

 quently wholly unnecessary. They are 

 liable to impose excessive punishment 

 on importers who are innocent of 

 any international violation of the 

 statute because variations in analyses 

 are quite possible though using the greatest 

 care, and because the importer cannot deter- 

 mine that the hulk corresponds with the 

 purchasing sample, and thereby complies 

 with the law. until the importation has 

 been actually accomplished. 



And resolve further, That the Secretar.v 

 of this Association transmit a copy of 

 these resolutions to the President of the 

 Senate. 



The Bourne Parcels Post Bill Senate 

 6850, which has been quite fully com- 

 mented upon in some of our previous 

 issues, came up for its share of at- 

 tention on the part of the convention 

 and was thoroughly discussed by va- 

 rious members. At the close of the 

 discussion the following resolution 

 recommended for passage by the Com- 

 mittee on Postal Laws was unani- 

 mously adopted: 



Resolved, That we, the members of the 

 American Seed Ti-ade Association in con- 

 vention assembled representing practically 

 all of the seedsmen of the United States, de- 

 sire to renew our appeal to Congress for a 

 genuine system of Parcels Post founded on 

 the plans and principles of the Postal Pro- 

 gress League; further 



Resolved, That we oppose any temporary 

 substitute and shall deplore the enactment 

 of such portions of the Bourne F.ill (Senate 

 68S0) as cater to the interests of any class 

 or attempt to substitute temporary expedi- 

 ents for real reform. We object to any 

 provision which sets aside that funda- 

 mental and world-wide principle of the 

 postal service which provides for unifor- 

 mity of rate without regard to distance; 

 also 



Resolved, That we object to the increase 

 of any postage rates for any reason unless 

 it can be dcmonstrate<l that the traffic can- 

 not be carried without loss. We appeal to 

 the good judgment of Congress to listen to 

 this demand of the people which cannot 

 much longer lie denied. 



An interesting paper was read by 

 Mr. Curtis Nye Smith, Boston, Mass., 

 counsel of the association on the sub- 

 ject of "Recent Decisions on the Seed 

 Trade Disclaimer," in which he con- 

 tradistinguished English and Ameri- 

 can decisions on this subject. The pa- 

 per though necessarily of a technical 

 character was presented in an inter- 

 esting and intelligible manner and 



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those present found it exceedingly in- 

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Crop reports by letter and wire were 

 received from divers sections of the 

 country and were read by Secretary 

 Kendel. This feature of the annual 

 meeting is growing, and the reports 

 are increasing yearly in numbers and 

 in interest. The importance of this 

 feature of the association's work is 

 fully realized by the membership, but 

 because of the fact that at the present 

 time other agencies are doing consid- 

 erable work along this line the special 

 committee appointed to consider the 

 advisability of establishing a crop re- 

 porting bureau reported adversely to 

 taking any action in that direction at 

 this time. 



Arthur B. Clark, of Milford, Conn., 

 read an Interesting paper entitled 

 "Opportunities for a Young Man in the 

 Seed Business," for which on motion 



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