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HORTICULTURE 



April 11, 1914 



agement of S. M. Harris and a young- 

 er but very brilliant sister, who has 

 elected to remain wit;h him and assist 

 in the building up of their business. 

 Those who have had dealings with 

 this company have only words of 

 warm praise for them. 



Another concern which Is worthy of 

 passing mention is the F. A. Sherman 

 Co., Albany, N. Y. Mr. Sherman was 

 for many years the senior partner in 

 the firm of Sherman iV Eberle. Some 

 five years ago Mr. Eberle bought out 

 Mr. Sherman and for about two years 

 the latter was out of the seed busi- 

 ness; then he began again and his 

 success must be most gratifying to 

 him, and, we may add. very deserving. 



Free Seeds According to the Water- 

 bury Idea. 



These are the days when the con- 

 stituent at home is reminded that he 

 has a representative of his interests 

 as a citizen at the seat of government 

 in Washington. There is no doubt about 

 it, for has he not been sent several 

 packages of seeds, — flower, vegetable 

 and fruit? There are many who re- 

 ceive the seeds and throw them on a 

 shelf to be forgotten. Many others 

 have found them worth while experi- 

 menting with and not a few in all 

 communities have succeeded in mak- 

 ing attractive flower gardens or vege- 

 table gardens without going to any 

 expense except the investment of a 

 little time for planting and for attend- 

 ing the plants from time to time dur- 

 ing the growing season. 



More should make use of the free 

 seeds which are so generously passed 

 around by the members of congress. 

 The government asks only that those 

 who do plant government seeds will 

 take the trouble to send in a report 

 on their success with the seeds used 

 and their theories as to the reasons 

 for the success or failure of their par- 



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ticular experiments. There is no real 

 obligation to do this, but some valu- 

 able information as to soil conditions 

 and local problems in agriculture has 

 been gathered from contributions of 

 persons who have experimented with 

 government seeds. — Watcrbury (Conn. J 

 Republican . 



Free Seeds — Another View. 



I have been watching very closely 

 what you say about the free seed 

 business. I know that Mr. Ashbrook, 

 M. C, of our old district, is sending 

 free seeds to farmers in the new dis- 

 trict of which he will be a resident. 

 I also noticed a news item in a daily 

 paper that free seeds were coming to 

 Findlay, O., by the wagon-load from 

 two opposing statesmen. 



Why would it not be a good idea to 

 try to find out the total cost of the 

 free seed distribution from the time it 

 is brought up in Congress until they 

 are delivered by the rural carrier, 

 then all farm papers print the names 

 of members of Congress who vote for 

 free seeds, and dub them the "free 

 seed pork barrel statesmen?" Also 

 the grangers and other farm organi- 

 zations should resolve to work and 

 vote against any member of Congress 

 who persists in distributing free seeds 

 at public expense. — "A Farmer," in 

 'Nat'l Stockman and Farmer.' 



Wayne County, 0. 



Imported Red Clover Seed. 



The seed importation act of August 

 24, 1912, does not directly prohibit the 

 importation of seeds on account of 

 low vitality. It does, however, prohibit 

 the importation of those seeds men- 

 tioned in the act when they contain 3 

 per cent, or more of weed seeds. As 

 red clover seed, which germinates 

 poorly, usually contains more than 3 

 per cent, of weed seeds the enforce- 

 ment of the act has resulted in keep- 

 ing red clover seed of low vitality out 

 of the country. 



During the last four months 101 

 lots of red clover seed, aggregating 

 over 31/2 million pounds, have been 

 imported into the United States. Ger- 

 mination tests of this seed made by 

 the seed laboratory of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture show 

 an average of 97 per cent, of live seed, 

 the poorest lot containing 89 per cent. 

 This is in marked contrast to the con- 

 dition which existed in 1906. One 

 million pounds of the red clover seed 

 imported that year germinated less 

 than .59 per cent. 



Chicago Seed Notes. 



The Leonard Seed Co. report onion 

 sets are practically cleaned up. Had 

 the weather been warmer the shortage 

 would have been more keenly felt and 

 even at this late day there are prob- 

 abilities that there will be a large de- 

 mand for set.s that will go unfilled, 

 when spring opens in earnest. All im- 

 portant varieties of cabbage seeds are 

 scarce, owing to the heavy demand. 

 Last year the amount of cabbages 

 grov/n was insufficient and market gar- 

 deners are seeing to it, that this mis- 

 take is not repeated this year. They 

 also note a shortage in the common 

 varieties of flower seeds as four 

 o'clocks, etc. Continued damp weather 

 has made sales of lawn grass seed par- 

 ticularly good. 



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