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The Florists' Review 



Mabch 18, 1U20 



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 to-test-quality basis. As far as the facilities 

 of the seed laboratories will permit, we will 

 plve every aid i)ossible to farmers desiring to 

 purchase seeds. 



Feeding Interstate Bivalries. 



Mr. Therkildson received a circular 

 from a New York state seedsman who 

 inclosed a copy of Mr. Munn's letter, 

 thus attempting to build up his own 

 trade by arousing antagonism against 

 all seed dealers outside of New York 

 state, through the use of a letter written 

 with a quite different object. It is 

 just as unfortunate for a state ofS.cial 

 to exclude legitimate trade from his 

 state by vague and misused . warnings 

 as to exclude it by an unduly severe 

 quarantine, though his intentions may 

 be of the best in each case. 



In the following letter to Mr Munn, 

 dated March 9, Mr. Therkildson called 

 the srtate botanist's attention to the 

 need of specific terms in such a warn- 

 ing: 



There hag Just come to my attention one of 

 your letters of February 3 addressed to farm 

 bureau agents and county agents, in which 

 you refer to the advertisements and claims of 

 certain middle west mail order seed houses. 



You are perfectly justified in sending out 

 the advice you have, and no one knows It better 

 than myself, for I was for many years adver- 

 tising and sales manager ef the W. Atlee 

 Burpee Co., and also active in the alTaIrs of 

 the American Seed Trade Association. 



However, the majority of the mail order 

 houses in the middle west have the highest 

 ideals and standards and, as two or three of 

 these happen to be clients of N. W. Ayer & 

 Son, we are naturally much interested in their 

 protection and their rights. And I am writing 

 you this letter to express my opinion that it 

 would be wise for you to be specific in the 

 names of the concerns. 



Of course I Iinow to whom you refer and 

 I believe that most of the men in the seed 

 business Icnow to whom you refer, but the 

 customers to whom the seedsmen must loolt 

 for income are not familiar witli tlie names 

 of these concerns and consequently all seed 

 bouses outside of your state come into the same 

 class. It is true that you qualify this in the 

 last paragraph of your letter, but the tendency 

 on the part of every mall order buyer, after 

 reading your letter or being advised by the 

 county agent, would be to distrust all such 

 concerns unless specific names are mentioned. 

 Tou can readily appreciate that this is manifestly 

 nnfair in the case of concerns which are doing 

 a high-class, legitimate business. 



This matter has also been brought 



to the attention of the officers of the 



American Seed Trade Association and 



of various other individuals who are 



in a position to see that the interests 



of reliable seed firms, in the middle west 



and elsewhere, receive proper protec- 



tioQ. 



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A sale of seed corn furnished the 

 basis of the suit of Frank vs. Frost, 174 

 Northwestern Reporter 911, decided by 

 the Wisconsin Supreme court. The main 

 point in dispute related to the legal ef- 

 fect of a check as a final adjustment 

 of the transaction involved. 



The plaintiff paid the defendant $110 

 as the price of seed corn to be delivered 



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