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Jolt 1. 1920 



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of the Everette E. Peacock Co., Chicago, 

 suggested raising the money by putting 

 a seal on each packet of seed sold, after 

 the manner of the federal tax on toilet 

 articles; this method, he thought, would 

 simplify the bookkeeping problem, the 

 burden of which was spoken of more 

 than once. The discussion was closed 

 when the association passed a motion 

 to abandon the project of paid pub- 

 licity, at least for the time being. 



Experiment Station Reports. 



Another interesting feature of 

 Wednesday afternoon was the reading 

 by L. L. Olds of the report of the com- 

 mittee on experiment stations. Inter- 

 esting suggestions contained in the re- 

 plies from seventeen states — more had 

 been received than were read — included 

 the adoption by the American Seed 

 Trade Association of a gentlemen's 

 agreement to show on the label where 

 the seeds were grown, the use of an 

 order of crop rotation which would pre- 

 vent plants bearing related diseases 

 from following in direct succession, the 

 regulation of interstate seed traffic by 

 a federal seed law and the registration 

 of seed fields coming up to a certain 

 standard. Maryland reported satisfac- 

 tion with its uniform seed law, in effect 

 since October, 1918; New York's uni- 

 form seed law becomes effective July 1, 

 1920, and Massachusetts, with New Eng- 

 land pride, reported that it had no seed 

 law because there was no demand for 

 it from anyone. 



A further feature of that afternoon 

 session was the reading by George 

 Edler, of the bureau of markets of the 

 United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, Washington, D. C, of the paper 

 on "The Fine Turf Grasses, with Spe- 

 cial Reference to the Seed Supply," by 

 E. A. Oakley, of the Department of 



Members of the American Seed Trade Association in Attendance at the 



