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NEWS OF THE SEED TRADE 



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Purple Top Strap Leab^ turnip seed 

 is selling at 60 cents per pound and is 

 in large demand at that price. 



A FEDERAL inquiry is being conducted 

 in regard to the advances in the price on 

 canned goods. All canners and brokers 

 in Chicago have been subpoenaed. 



Orders for turnip seed are beginning 

 to come in and the demand undoubtedly 

 will be good. Prices are ruling much 

 higher than in former years. New crop 

 seed of high germination is selling at 

 from 75 cents to $1 per i)ound. 



Charles D. Boyles, while retaining his 

 membership in the American Seed Trade 

 Association, no longer is actively con- 

 nected with the seed business. Formerly 

 secretary of the Albert Dickinson Co., 

 he now is with the Hoboken Manufac- 

 turers' Kailroad Co., making his head- 

 quarters at present in Washington. 



The seed laboratory of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture reports 

 that during the month of May 429,277 

 pounds of crimson clover seed weie per- 

 mitted entry into the United States under 

 the seed-importation act, making a total 

 of 5,434,204 pounds for eleven months 

 ending May 31, as compared with 4,50.3,- 

 983 pounds for the fiscal year 1916. 



The Maryland Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station at College Park recently 

 published a bulletin. No. 203, giving the 

 results of analyses of about 1,600 sam- 

 ples of agricultural seed made in 1915. 

 Appearing two years after the seed was 

 planted, the value of the pamphlet may 

 be somewhat impaired, but wholesale 

 seedsni(>n will get some good names out 

 of it. It is interesting to note that most 

 of the sami)les were up to the description 

 on the tag and many were somewhat bet- 

 ter than claimed for tliem. 



In March the British Board of Trade 

 prohibited anyone in England mailing 

 a catalogue except in reply to a direct 

 request. The seed trade protested ve- 

 hemently. Notice now is given: "The 

 Royal Commission on Pai)er will permit 

 the distribution of seedsmen's cata- 

 logues during the present year, on con- 

 dition tliat not more than fifty per 

 cent, whetlier in number or in weight, 

 of the catalogues distributed in the year 

 ]914 sliall be sent out, and that the 

 catalogues shall refer to food products 

 only. ' ' 



According to A. II. Smith, of the 

 Leonard Seed Co., Cliicago, the onion sot 

 crop is about three weeks late in growth 

 because of the backward season. Sets 

 are only standing three to four inches 

 high at the present time, whereas they 

 should be about eight to ten inches. Yet 

 the cool, moist weather has caused them 

 to make good roots and the stands are 

 good and even, although there are a few 

 sections which show some indications of 

 maggots. Most fields are, however, look- 

 ing satisfactory, and with favorable 

 weather from now on should make good 

 crops. It is entirely a weather proposi- 

 tion now. 



Frank W. Bolgiano. 

 (President of the American Seed Trade Association.) 



A marked scarcity is developing in 

 cabbage seed. Some of the larger seed 

 houses are reporting heavy sales for sum- 

 mer and fall planting and prospects are 

 for higher prices. 



Heavy storms through central and 

 northern Michigan are reported to have 

 (lone considerable damage to the radish 

 fields in some sections. Tlie crop is back- 

 ward at the best. 



There is every indication that Ameri- 

 can growers of pansy seeds will have a 

 fine season. Tliere is said to be a good 

 crop, hut no last year's stock and no 

 prospect of imports of consequence. 



John C. Leonard, of the Leonard Seed 

 Co., CUiicago, has returned from a trip to 

 Colunihus, Wis., where he was looking 

 over some of the company's crops. He 

 reports good stands, but too much rain. 



Wlsconsin pea fields are in good con- 

 dition at the present time, due to the 

 cool, moist weather and rain. Vines are 

 just beginning to bloom and look strong 

 and healthy, but there is so much moisture 

 in the plants that it is thought by some 



that if it should turn hot suddenly the 

 plants might scald and a great deal of 

 damage be done. With reasonably cool 

 weather, however, for the next ten days 

 or two weeks, there should be a good crop 

 in Wisconsin for canning. Seed peas 

 will have to mature and dry down and so 

 run greater chances of damage than the 

 same varieties which are pulled tor can- 

 ning purposes. 



THE DETROIT CONVENTION. 



[Tlie opening sessions of the convention wore 

 fully reiwrtPd und a list of those present ap- 

 peared in The Iteview of Juno 21.] 



Officers Elected. 



The following officers were elected 

 and installed with appropriate cere- 

 mony at the closing session of the thir- 

 ty-fifth annual convention of the Amer- 

 ican Seed Trade Association, at Detroit, 

 June 21: 



President — F. W. Bolgiano, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



First vice-president — Wm. G. Scar- 

 lett, Baltimore, Md. 



Second vice-president — David Bur- 

 pee, Philadelphia. 



