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The Florists^ Review 



July 10, 1919. 



Seed Trade News 



AlUSBIOAN SEED TBABE ASSOCIATION. 



President, B. 0. Dungan, Philadelphia, Pa.; 

 Becretary-treasurer, C. B, Kendel, CleTeland, O. 



Peas will be peas again this seaaon. 



The California growers are not figur- 

 ing on selling this year's crops for less 

 than it cost to produce. 



W. W. Barnard was born July 4, 1856. 

 His sixty-third anniversary was quietly 

 celebrated at his home in a Chicago sub- 

 urb. 



Advices from Lompoc, Cal., say of mus- 

 tard seed : ' ' The normal yield of mus- 

 tard in the Lompoc valley is 30,000 bags 

 and the outlook at present is that the 

 1919 crop will exceed 50,000 bags, or 

 20,000 more than the average crop has 

 been. Much of this crop has been con- 

 tracted to sell at good prices — 7 cents per 

 pound and better. The market is ap- 

 parently strong and the indications are 

 that the farmers who have not contracted 

 their mustard seed will receive good prices 

 also. ' ' 



COMMITTEE ON SEEDS. 



The following gentlemen have been 

 appointed by the president of the New 

 York Produce Exchange as members of 

 the committee on seeds: William Jacot, 

 chairman; Marshall H. Duryea, Ernst 

 Wehnke, O. W. F. Randolph and Charles 

 Wimmer. 



A BRITISH VIEW. 



"Report* from the U. S. A. indicatu 

 that the abnormal demand for seeds of 

 food plants caused by the war is now 

 slackening, and as many firms have 

 overstocked, a number of articles will 

 probably be offered at considerably re- 

 duced rates, especially as the recent 

 deputation to Europe does not report 

 any extraordinary buying from that 

 .quarter," says the Horticultural Ad- 

 vertiser (British). "The inquiry into 

 seed conditions has done good in draw- 

 ing attention to the fact that, though 

 Hamburg was formerly the most impor- 

 tant center of the seed trade in Europe, 

 the greater part of the seed sold was not 

 of German origin. A large part of the 

 seed grown for foreign trade by France 

 and Russia, and even a considerable 

 quantity of British seed, passed through 

 German hands. Now, however, it is 

 hoped that the seed trade in these coun- 

 tries will get together and trade direct. 

 In the future careful watch should be 

 kept for attempts to divert the seed 

 trade and reestablish conditions which 

 jirevailed before the war." 



ITEMS OF PRODUCTION COST. 



To assist sugar-beet growers in de- 

 termining the cost of production, spe- 

 cialists of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture have made a study of 

 four of the most important sugar-beet 

 areas in the United States. The de- 

 partment has publish£/I four bulletins, 

 one on each of the four areas studied, 

 giving in detail the results of the in- 

 vestigations. 



While the requirements of the beet 

 crop in terms of value that prevailed 

 through 1915 and 1916 are dealt with in 

 the recent publication, the authors state 

 that when such requirements are known 



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