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The Florists^ Review 



Arm. 24, 1919. 



labeled, the Secretary of Agriculture, in 

 the summer of 1917, asked representa- 

 tives of the seed trade to meet in Wash- 

 ington. It was proposed at this meet- 

 ing that seedsmen should label all farm 

 seeds sold in lots of ten pounds or more 

 with the percentage of pure seed and 

 the percentage of germination, together 

 with the date of the germination test. 

 The majority of the seed trade agreed to 

 comply with this suggestion, but an in- 

 vestigation by the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture shows that it was 

 not generally lived up to. This failure 

 on the part of the seed trade has been 

 called to their attention and the greater 

 number of seedsmen have again an- 

 nounced that they will fully label all 

 agricultural seeds they sell. 



"Practically all the large seed houses 

 now have facilities for testing seeds and 

 know the quality of each lot they buy 

 and sell. The seed trade has the infor- 

 mation which the farmer needs, and the 

 farmer should insist on being given this 

 information when he buys seeds. Al- 

 most invariably the seedsmen make their 

 largest profit on the lowest-grade seed 

 they sell, and the farmer who buys such 

 low-grade seed gets correspondingly 

 poor results in the field. Few farmers 

 are willing to buy low-grade seed con- 

 taining large proportions of chafiF, dirt, 

 weed seeds and dead seeds if it is truth- 

 fully labeled showing how poor it is. 

 The farmer's protection lies in buying 

 labeled seeds." 



IMPOSTS OF FOBAOE PLANTS. 



The following table, prepared in the 

 seed laboratory of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, United States Department of 

 Agriculture, shows the amonnt of the 

 various kinds of forage plant seeds sub- 

 ject to the seed importation act per- 

 mitted entry into the United States dur- 

 ing the quarter ending March 31, 1919, 

 as compared with the corresponding 

 quarter of 1918: 



Quarter 



ending 



March 31, 



1919 



Kind of Seed Poiindn 



Alfalfa 33,500 



Bluegrass: 



Canada 154,000 



Clover: 



Alsike 2,614,900 



Crimson 44,000 



Red 413,000 



White 



Clover mixturps: 



White and alsikp 16.800 



Alsike and timothy 353,000 



Millet: 



Broom rorn 



Hungarian 124,800 



Mixtures: 

 Grass lOO 



Rape 401,100 



Bedtop 100 



Ryegrass: 



English 380,700 



Italian 1.33,500 



Timothy 22,700 



Vetch: 



Hairy 49,600 



Spring 194,600 



Quarter 



ending 



March 31, 



1918 



Pounds 



100 



639,600 



1,957,200 



2.34.800 



l.-i.-^OO 



1,700 



21.200 



."i.U.SOO 



2.208,400 



836.900 



3.38, 60O 



18,900 



27,000 

 55,500 



DICKINSON, OF THE AERO SQUAD. 



A great many seedsmen have been 

 "up in the air" this season, but Charles 

 Dickinson, of the Albert Dickinson Co., 

 Chicago, is the only one of them who 

 made his ascension by means of a bi- 

 plane. Mr. Dickinson, who is 61 years 

 old, made his first flight October 31, 

 1910. He is president of the Aero Club 

 of Illinois and, although he keeps in 

 close touch with the big seed business 

 of which he is the head, he is more likely 

 to be found at the aviation field than 

 at his desk these spring mornings. 



When Capt. White made the first non- 



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