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The Rorlsts' Review 



August 28. IfM. 



Seed Trade Hews 



AMERICAN SEED TXAOE ASSOCIATION. 

 Prealdent. B. C. Oungan, PblladelphU. Pa.; 

 Mcretary-trcaaurer, O. B. Kendel, CleTeland, O. 



Catalogues will cost considerably more 

 than they did for 1919. 



The steamer Frederick VIII, -which ar- 

 rived in New York from Copenhagen last 

 ♦veek, brought 1,048 bags of seed. 



On the steamer Nieuw Amsterdam, 

 which arrived at New York from Eotter- 

 dam last week, were twenty-four cases of 

 bulbs and 592 bags of seed. 



The shortage of pea seed is so severe 

 that the canners are worrying about their 

 next seasoij's supply of peas. Wisconsin 

 is extremely short. From the northwest, 

 however, reports state the crop is good, 

 which may help matters somewhat. 



Now that Poland has obtained her in- 

 dependence, the large number of seed 

 growers who formerly grew large crops 

 for German seed merchants are anxious to 

 establish direct trading relations with the 

 allied countries. As a measure of recon- 

 struction the growers, numbering over 

 900, have banded themselves into a syndi- 

 cate called the United Agricultural Syn- 

 dicate of Poland, and the leading directors 

 have been on a short visit to England. 

 Offices Imve been opened at 88 Kingsway, 

 London. 



The business of Hommo Ten Have, at 

 Schmecda, Holland, has been incorporated 

 under the name of N. V. Hommo Ten 

 Have's Zaadteelt En Zaadhandel, with a 

 capital of 3,000,000 guUder, or $1,250,- 

 000. The business has been extended and 

 new farms are being bought, which will 

 be exclusively for the growing of seeds. 

 The directors of the new company are 

 L. L. Ebels, president; W. A. Scholten, 

 of Groningen; Hommo Ten Have, of 

 Schmecda, and G. B. Kamps, of Schmecda, 

 marager. 



Jerome B. Rick Seel Co., Cambridge, 

 N. Y., has sent seedsmeh in all parts of 

 the United States an invitation to visit its 

 Grass Lake stock seed farm September 2 

 to 5, when Howard M. Earl and Charles 

 P. Guelf will be at the farm. Grass Lake 

 is ten miles east of Jackson, Mich., and 

 in addition to 1,200 acres of seed crops 

 now maturing, the Rice concern has in the 

 trial grounds now, and which will be at 

 their best at that time, 118 selections of 

 cucumbers, 190 of tomatoes, 334 garden 

 beans, 188 sweet corn, 114 muskmelons, 

 sixty-two watermelons, ninety cabbages, 

 fifty-one squashes and pumpkins, eighteen 

 peppers and a complete radish and root 

 crop trial. 



MOTTLY GLEANINGS. 



Total sales of 12,000,000 packets of 

 seeds for school gardens is the encourag- 

 ing report of Secretary Bradley, of the 

 Templin-Crockett-Bradley Co., of Cleve- 

 land, O. "At one time we were send- 

 ing them out at the rate of a quarter 

 of a million packets daily," observed 

 Mr. Bradley, "and I believe this to be 

 the record for any mail order seed house 

 this year. If we are behind, we want 

 to know it. The bulk of the seed is 

 grown in California." 



Botzum Bros., of Cleveland, O., have 

 moved into their new seed store and 

 now occupy the entire building, includ- 



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