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The Rorists^ Review 



NOVBMBBB 6, 1919. 



United States from the Nantes district, 

 as declared at the Nantes consulate, dur- 

 ing the years 1917 and 1918 and the first 

 six months of 1919: 



Seed. 



Year ended De- 

 cember 31 



1917 

 Pounds 

 29,866 

 33,682 



Beet: 



Bxcept sugar. . 



Sugar 



Cabbage 



Onrrot 



OlOTer, red 198,000 



Oorn salad 



Kohl-rabi 



Parsley 



Parsnip 



Eadlsh 



Spinach 



Turnip 



Another 



1918 

 Pounds 

 123,114 

 1,800 

 2,937 

 2.130 



Six 



months 



ended 



June 30, 



1919 



Pounds 



831 



*2'.678 

 220 



Total, pounds... 261,548 

 Total value $41,530 



2.191 

 5,872 



13,459 

 10,392 

 15,136 



177,031 

 $89,620 



110 

 166 

 1,612 

 441 

 772 



15,450 

 1,378 



28,158 

 $20,150 



THREE MONTHS' SEED IMPORTS. 



The following are the imports of seeds 

 for the fourth quarter — April 1 to June 

 30, 1919 — of the government's last fiscal 

 year, as reported by the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Commerce. Both the quantity 

 and the value of each variety of seed 

 are stated. The quantities are expressed 

 in pounds, except in the case of castor 

 beans or seeds, flaxseed or linseed, oil 

 seeds and poppy, in which tlie unit of 

 measurement is the bushel. 



Anise — 68,641, $10,440. Beet— Sugar, 2«2,- 

 470, $100,443 ; all other, 35.936. $24,078. Cab- 

 bage — 57.511. $84,997. Canary — 1,870,816, 

 $188,264. Canary (reciprocity treaty with 

 Cuba)— 27,090, $3,193. Caraway— 173,448, 

 $42,199. Cardamom — 41.519, $17,612. Carrot 

 — 6,346. $5,890. Castor beans or seeds — 284.- 

 746. $935,128. Cauliflower— 2,004, $16,977. 

 Celery— 99,612. $42,525. Collard— 50, $54. 

 Coriander- 187,301. $12,671. Corn salad— 784. 

 $471. Cotton — 2.021.929. $50,495. Cummin— 

 176,853, $17,972. Eggplant — 163. $416. Fen- 

 nel— 12.776. $1,657. Fenugreek— 383.235. $29.- 

 241. Flaxseed or linseed— 3.707.837. $9,248,124. 

 Flaxseed or Unseed screenings (pounds) — 4,988,- 

 048, $25,200. Flower— $104,702. 



Grass — Alfalfa. 678,620, $107,786. Clorer— 

 Alslke. 664.213. $169,839; crimson, 760,088. 

 $187,279: red, 718.481, $201,570; white, 1,820, 

 $634: clover seed, n.s.p.f., 326.441. $72,201. 

 Millet— 26.660, $656. Timothy- 26,862, $3,097. 

 Vetch— Hairy. 46.592, $3,204; spring, 147,820, 

 $8,033. Grass seed, n.s.p.f. — 649.249. $89,865, 

 ToUl grass seed— 3,845.817. $794,064. 



Hemp — 685.623, $23,606. Kale — 8.985. $6.- 

 661. Kohlrabi — 1,811, $1,746. Mushroom spawn 

 — 6.963. $302. Mustard— 3,074,839, $274,124. 

 Oil seeds, n.s.p.f. — 1.449. $6,421. Parsley — 

 22.190. $7,984. Parsnip— 18.703, $5,873. Pep- 



esr— 3.082. $5,612. Popp.v— 3.082, $22,818. 

 adish — 57,334, $38,262. Rape — 94.176, $6,364. 

 Soya beans — 857,262, $37,610. Spinach — 38.629. 

 $9,612. Turnip and rutabaga — 724,143, $279,880. 

 Seeds, including bulbs and bulbous roots, not 

 edible, coniferous evergreen seedlings, boarhound. 

 mangt'l-wurzel, St. John's bread or bean, and 

 sorghum or sugar cane for seed — $112,334. 

 Seeds, n.s.p.f. — 127.625, $67(656. Seeds n.s.p.f. 

 (reciprocity treaty with Cuba) — 48. $9. 



Total seeds — Free. $1,642,187; dutiable. $11,- 

 021,173. 



WATCHING THE OTHER FELLOW. 



The editor of the American Magazine 

 calls attention to a habit that a good 

 many business men have, in the follow- 

 ing paragraph: 



I once knew a man who ran a small business 

 successfully in the face of great odds imposed 

 against him by a strong competitor. He said 

 that he never could have done it if he had not 

 learned and mastered one thing — namely, to look 

 at his own Job and not waste time looking over 

 the fence at the big fellow who was working 

 against him. That la all there is to this envy 

 and Jealousy business; it is looking over the 

 fence at the other fellow, instead of looking at 

 the Job in hand. 



There is probably less excuse for any- 

 thing like this in the seed business than 

 elsewhere. There are so many oppor- 

 tunities for the seedsman to keep busy 

 — to be finding new ways of increasing 

 his own business, instead of worrying 

 because his competitor is getting ahead. 

 The seed merchant has one of the big- 

 gest fields to study. He must be ready 

 to tell his customers what to plant and 

 how to plant. And if he is informed on 



ew 



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