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The Rorists' Review 



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NEWS OF THE SEED TRADE 



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Frank H. Leckenby, of the Chas. H. 

 Lilly Co., was among the Seattle busi- 

 ness men who took part in the southwest 

 Washington trade expansion tour ar- 

 ranged by the Chamber of Commerce. 



George L. Protsman has bought a half 

 interest i« the Forbes Seed Co., Ply- 

 mouth, Ind., which, prior to February 15 

 of this year, was known as the Forbes 

 Seed Store. Mr. Protsman, although 

 new in the trade, is quick to take hold 

 and has already demonstrated his busi- 

 ness ability. The company has enjoyed 

 a good business this season, principally in 

 tield, garden and flower seeds, incubators 

 and brooders, and poultry and other 

 feeds. The company has handled two 

 carloads of certified seed potatoes from 

 the northwest, beside geraniums, cannas 

 and other bedding plants. 



SEEDSMEN AT ST. LOUIS. 



Officers Elected. 



At the thirty-ninth annual convention 

 of the American Seed Trade Associa- 

 tion, at St. Louis, last week, the follow- 

 ing officers were elected for the ensuing 

 year: 



President — L. L. Olds, Madison, "Wis. 



First Vice - president — ■ Alexander 

 Forbes, Newark, N. J. 



Second Vice-president — L. B. Eeuter, 

 New Orleans, La. 



Secretary-treasurer - — C. E. Kendel, 

 Cleveland, O. 



Assistant Secretary — Clifford Cornell, 

 St. Louis, Mo. 



The executive committee for the 

 coming year will be composed of the fol- 

 lowing: H. G. Hastings, Atlanta, Ga. ; 

 Kirby B. White, Detroit, Mich.; C. C. 

 Massie, Minneapolis, Minn.; John L. 

 Hunt, Cambridge, N. Y., and L. H. 

 Vaughan, Chicago. 



The membership committee for the 

 coming year is made up of the follow- 

 ing members: Alexander Forbes, 

 cliairman; R. W. Palmer, St. Louis; 

 George S. Green, Chicago; L. B. Me- 

 Causland, Wichita, Kan., and W. P. 

 Stubbs, Louisville, Ky. 



Convention of Workers. 



In opening the Wednesday morning 

 session of the convention President 

 Hastings said, "Gentlemen, some of us 

 are guilty of disobeying the law against 

 wearing coats." So all the coats came 

 off. That, in a way, tells the spirit 

 of the convention. The members of the 

 association had their coats off to do 

 some real constructive work. 



Wednesday afternoon was given over 

 to an executive session. Curtis Nye 

 Smith, counsel, met with the voting 

 members and made the report of the 

 year's legislative activities. In his 

 summary he stated that the various 

 legislatures with which he had come 

 in contact have usually taken stands 

 detrimental to all business in the effort 

 to correct the evils existent with the 

 present depressed economic conditions. 

 It is his belief, and this was upheld by 

 members, that regulation of prices and 

 the arbitrary fixing of profits should 



not be undertaken. The natural law of 

 supply and demand should always be 

 allowed to assert itself. So the session 

 passed a resolution on that subject to 

 be sent to Washington. 



The two amendments to the constitu- 

 tion and by-laws were discussed at this 

 meeting. The first one dealt with 

 changing the members of the arbitra- 

 tion committee from three to seven and 

 making it a standing committee in place 

 of one which the president appointed 

 when conditions arose necessitating this 

 committee. There was a, great differ- 

 ence of opinion and much discussion on 

 this subject, and when the final vote 

 was taken the amendment was • not 

 passed. The second proposed amend- 

 ment was simply changing the wording 

 of Article 1, section 5 of the by-laws, 

 which deals with the resignation and 

 expulsion of members. This was passed 

 and now the meaning of that rule is 

 much clearer than it was before. 



The membership committee made a 

 preliminary report, naming a few of the 

 proposed members, but nothing was 

 done with it at this session. 



Interesting: Talks. 



The program for Thursday morning 

 comprised several interesting papers 



and talks on subjects of moment to the 

 seedsmen. First, Kirby B. White, of 

 D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Mich., 

 gave an interesting extemporaneous talk 

 on * ' Promoting Larger and More Gen- 

 erous Plantings of Vegetable and Gar- 

 den Seeds." His talk contained sev- 

 eral constructive suggestions. He said 

 that the use of seeds was bound to in- 

 crease from natural causes. The growth 

 of population, the increase of short 

 railroad hauls, the decrease of long 

 hauls, the transportation difficulties — 

 all these would naturally tend to pro- 

 duce more intensive farming, the cen- 

 tralizing of the industry, and, therefore, 

 to increase the use of seeds in all terri- 

 tories. While these and other naturally 

 inevitable facts would all tend to build 

 up the seed industry, the seedsmen 

 themselves must do something to fur- 

 ther the use of seeds. As individuals 

 not much could be done. The amount 

 of money spent on individual advertis- 

 ing in the seed trade during one year 

 was so stupendous that he would not 

 believe the figures when he heard what 

 they were. He said that the best plan 

 was to use a cooperative plan to sell the 

 idea of gardening. Then, also, when the 

 individual did do advertising he should 

 do his best to make his advertising sell 



.. ', T; L. L. Olds. • , . ■ /• ..■ >, . 



(New President of the American Seed Trade Association.) 





