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HORTICULTURE 



April 4, 1914 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



Officers — President, Chas. C. Massie, 

 Minneapolis, Minn.; let Tice-president, 

 a. M. Lnpton, Mattitack, N. T.; 2nd 

 Tlce - president, W. F. Tberkildson, 

 Palnesville, O.; secretary, C. E. Ken- 

 del; BBsistant secretary. S. F. Willard, 

 Jr., both of Cleveland, O. 



The Next Canners' Convention. 



Editor Horticulture: 



My Dear Sir: — In a recent is- 

 sue of your journal I notice an ar- 

 ticle under the caption, "Next 

 Canners Convention." It is stated 

 therein that the question of which 

 shall be the next convention city 

 has gone to a referendum of the 

 members of the three associations. I 

 regret to observe that you argue 

 against the selection of San Francisco, 

 on the ground that the Convention 

 date in 1915 falls so early that those 

 attending the Convention will not be 

 able to combine business with pleasure 

 and enjoy the Panama-Pacific Interna- 

 tional p:xposition at its best; it being 

 your conviction that our officials can- 

 not make good their claims to have 

 the Exposition ready for the public 

 by the opening date, Feb 20, 1915. 

 This seeming misapprehension it is 

 my hope and endeavor to correct. 



I do not know on what grounds you 

 base your belief that this Exposition 

 cannot be ready on the opening date; 

 the truth is we not only can be, but 

 barring unforseeable disaster, will be. 

 All our plans are based on a schedule 

 which calls for completion in ample 

 season and today we are ahead of the 

 schedule. Our main exhibit palaces 

 will be entirely finished and ready for 

 exhibits by July 1st. Three of the 

 twelve are ready now. The only ex- 

 hibit building that may be incomplete 

 by July 1st. is that of Fine Arts, a 

 steel construction, but we do not wish 

 to install the exhibits there until close 

 to the time of opening, and the build- 

 ing will be ready long before we need 

 it. We are pushing the building of the 

 state and national pavilions, and they 

 will be ready, too. 



As for exhibits, our total space is al- 

 ready over-applied for, and there re- 

 mains only the task of selection and 

 allotment of space. Exhibitors will 

 have fully eight months to make their 

 installations. 



By all means let the Canners come 

 out here in 1915. If they don't they 

 will miss the most beautif.ul and most 

 important exposition in all history. 



As it may well be, that a word from 

 your influential journal may change 

 the current of opinion among the Can- 

 ners, and lead to the convention com- 

 ing to California, may I hope to enlist 

 your co-operation towards this wished- 

 for consummation. Anticipating my 

 cordial thanks, I am, 



Very truly yours, 



Geo. Hoxtgh Perry, 

 Director, Division of Exploitation. 



San Francisco. 



A New Seed Postal Bill. 



On the 24th inst. Curtis Nye Smith 

 advised us that Senator Pomerene had 

 introduced a bill (S. 4980) to place 

 seeds, cuttings, etc., in 4th class mat- 



ter at the rate of one cent for two 

 ounces or fraction thereof on packages 

 containing eight ounces or less. Mr. i 

 Smith now informs us that on the I 

 23rd inst. said bill was reported fav- j 

 orably without amendment from the ' 

 Committee on Postoffices and Post- 

 Roads, ordered to be engrossed for a i 

 tliird reading, read the third time, 

 and passed. This bill now goes to 

 the House. 



Yours truly, 



Curtis Nye Smith. 



Chicago Seed Trade. 



Five consecutive days without a ray 

 of sunshine and with cold March 

 winds blowing have reduced counter 

 trade to a minimum. Spring rains are 

 putting the ground into condition for 

 planting but are not conducive to en- 

 thusiasm for buying seeds, and the re- 

 tail seedsmen are having time now to 

 finish all the details of preparation 

 for the busy days just ahead. 



The supply of onion sets is about 

 exhausted here and this week will 

 practically close the season. The 

 large dealers say the orders are com- 

 ing in, not only from the West but 

 from the South and are now being 

 turned down. While the local crop 

 was not up to the average in size and 

 better than the average in keeping 

 qualities there were not enough to 

 supply the deficiency in other parts of 

 the country and many more car loads 

 could be used to fill orders now com- 

 ing in. The season closes with prices 

 from $2.50 to $2.75 per bushel on small 

 lots. There are said to be no sales in 

 large lots. Beans are selling from 

 $G.00 to $7.00 per bu. and are scarce. 

 There are plenty of most kinds of 

 peas and they sell for $6.00 and $8.00 

 per bu.. according to variety. 



New Seed Testing Law in New York. 



With reference to the New York 

 Seed Law, I beg to advise, that: 



Assembly Bill No. 678 Int. 660. an 

 act to amend the agricultural law. in 

 relation to inspection and sale of seeds, 

 introduced by Mr. Tallett, has not 

 only passed the legislature, but has 

 the approval of the Governor, and is 

 now a law. The purport of the bill 

 was to change the method of testing 

 seeds from "by count" to "by weight." 

 In all other respects the law remains 

 unchanged. 



M.VR.SUALL H. Dl'RYE.^, 



New York State Correspondent. 

 .■American Seed Trade Association. 



Congressional seed distribution has 

 been recognized by the bankruptcy 

 courts at last. When Representative 

 Treadway of Massachusetts opened his 

 mail, the other morning, he found a 

 newspaper account of a man in Pitts- 

 field who had gone broke and who filed 

 a petition in bankruptcy. The news 

 article gave the liabilities as $116,000 

 and the assets at $110 "and a package 

 of seeds from Representative Tread- 

 way." 



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