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The FIdrisb' Rcvi(iw 



▲pbil 20, 1918. 



Seed Trade News 



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AMEBIOAV SEED TEASE ASSOCIATION. 



Preiident, John M. Lnpton, Mattitack, L. I.; 

 Sccntary-TrcaBurer, C. B. Kendel. Clereland. O. 



Thlrt7-fonrth annnal conTentlon, Chicago, Juaa 

 ao to 22, 1916. 



Commenting on the condition of the 

 retail seed business in Georgia this 

 spring, E. C. Everett, of the Everett 

 Seed Co., Atlanta, Ga., said: "It looks 

 as if everybody is going to make a gar- 

 den this year. We have never had a 

 busier season." 



April business is holding up rather bet- 

 ter than it usually does, doubtless because 

 of the backward season and the post- 

 ponement of much buying due in March. 

 The trade is fearful of the sudden arrival 

 of summer. Continued cool weather will 

 do much to retrieve the losses of March. 



The annual fight over free seeds be- 

 gan in Congress last week. Each year the 

 opposition grows a little stronger, but it 

 is scarcely to be hoped that the appropri- 

 ation will be omitted from the conference 

 report this year, whatever happens dur- 

 .ing the earlier stages of the bill's pass- 



The Holland- America line is having 

 difficulty maintaining its service between 

 Rotterdam and New York, no boat having 

 sailed from March 23 to April 15, with 

 no announcement of the probable date of 

 the next sailing. Spring shipments are 

 about all across, but the facilities for 

 moving the autumn bulb shipments are in 

 doubt. ' ,1^. 



The deci^n of the Dutch Bulb Grow- 

 ers' Association this season to add cost 

 of cases and packing to the invoice price 

 of bulbs is creating a great deal of dis- 

 cussion in England, where it is consid- 

 ered that all bulb merchants should com- 

 bine to resist the imposition of extra 

 charges, and to firmly refuse to buy 

 Dutch bulbs unless they are quoted pack- 

 ing free and delivered for a certain sum 

 agreed on. 



SEED IMPORTS INCREASING. 



Excluding castor beans, flaxseed, 

 grass, clover and sugar beet seeds, the 

 following is the official record of "all 

 other" seed imports for the last three 

 years for which figures are available: 



1815 j{ 3.657,084 



BAD SWEET CLOVER SEED. 



In order to determine to what extent 

 the seeds of the three species of sweet 

 clover are confused in the seed trade, 

 the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture caused to be sent to seeds- 

 men requests for samples and prices of 

 white sweet clover seed. 



In response to these inquiries 172 

 mail samples were received, of which 

 147 were labeled, or described in the 

 letters accompanying them, by one of 

 the following names: White sweet 

 clover, white flowering sweet clover, or 

 Bokhara clover, all of which are fre- 

 quently applied to Melilotus alba. Of 

 these 147 samples only ninety-one were 

 white sweet clover seed, the remaining 

 fifty-six being either a mixture of white 

 sweet clover and biennial yellow sweet 

 clover seed, or all biennial yellow sweet 

 clover seed, or one or both of these 

 adulterated witli alfalfa seed. 



TURNIP SEED 



SEED 



, CHICAOO 



CO 



ONION SETS 



GROWERS FOR THE TRADt 



Write for PricM 



[YOU will be satisfied with the products of 

 Burpee's "Seeds that Grow'' 



Better write to Burpee, PhlledelphU,— for eew Complete Cateloguea 



Braslan 



Grower for the Wholesale Trade Only. Onion, liKTTTJOK, Cabbot, 

 Fabbnip, Pabslet, Ckucbt, Endivk, Salbift, Namkd and Mmm 

 Gbanditloba and Sfenoxb Swkkt Pkab, and Suvnx>wxB. 



Seed Growers 



SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 



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Company 



The Everett B. Clerk Seed Co., MIfoni, Com. 



•reerlas 8t e ti> — et Beet l«r<«e, MMb, ttreew Bey, WIe., St. JUrtkeay. Mehe 



Beans, Peas, Sweet Corn, Onion, Beet, Turnip, Tomato, Etc Etc 



97th Ywur 



J. BOLBIiMO & SON 



lardM end rtold 

 Seto, 



SB 



-'— BALTIMORE, MD. 



Contract Seed Growers 



.CnATuItMC* P*»P«'> CrsPlut. Tomato, 

 OpCOUUn. viae gMd and Field Cora. 



ComsDondence Solicited 



George B. Pedrick it Son 



P«BmCKTOWII, M. J. 



The C. Herbert Coy Seed Co. 



VALLEY. g?5g^ NEB. 



Wholesale Graven •t Hiflhsritfe Seeds 



Gfcumber, Muikmelon, Squash and Pump* 

 kin. Sweet, Flint and Dent Seed Corn 



EVEREHE R. PEACOCK CO. 



ONION ^--ssEsr?^ SHS 



J. C. Robinson SeedCo. 



WATERLOO, NKB. 



ROCKY FORD, COLO. 



C!oiitnct growers of Cucumber. Cantaloupe. 

 Watermelon. Squash and Pumpkin Seed. Sugar, 

 Flint and Field Seed Com. 



Waldo Rohnert 



OILROY. CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Spedaltiei: Lettooe, Onion. Sweet Peaa. Alter. 

 Cosmoa. Micnonette. Verbena, in variety. 



Gtet Quotations From 



LANDRETH 



SEEDS WHICH SUCCEED 

 Bloomedal. ^rJstol, PO. 



M13 Mltwauk** AvmiM, 



CNICABO 



THE iOHBERLIN SEED CO. 



aH'Snim SANTA CLARAt GALi 



Growers of 

 ONION, LETTUCE, RADISH, Etc 



Correspondence Solicited 



Hesry Fish Seed Co< 



BEAN GROWERS 



For the Wholesale Seed Trade. 

 CARPINTERIA, -t- CAL« 



TOMATO SEED 



Chrown lor the 

 Wholeeale Seed Trade 



HAVEN SEED CO. 



SAMTA AHA, 



CAUFORMIA 



TOMATO SEED 



Pepper, Eee Plant. Squash, Pumpkin, 

 Cucumber, Cantaloupe and Watermelon 

 Seed and Field Corn, on contract. 



EDGAR F. HURFF 



Correspondence Solicited. 8w«d*sboro. N. J. 



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