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The Florists^ Review 



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May 11, 1922 



Seed Trad e News 



AKEUOAS 8EKD TKASX AB800IATI0N. 

 PraildeBt, L. L. Oldi, Ifadlion, Wli.; Mcre- 

 UuT-traararar, 0. ■. K*nd«l, OlCTeland, O. 



Gallagher & Steviok have acquired 

 the seed business of Davis & Fine, Inc., 

 Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 



Onion seed to the amount of 280,000 

 pounds planted on 55,800 acres in 1921 

 produced 25,300 carloads of commercial 

 onions. 



Demand for gladioli has been exceed- 

 ingly strong this season, and a number 

 of firms have cleaned up earlier than 

 they anticipated. 



The demise of Fred W. Hunter, the 

 well known wholesale seed merchant, of 

 San Francisco, Cal., is noted on the obitu- 

 ary page of this issue. 



Farm operations seem to be from two 

 to four weeks late this year in most sec- 

 tions of the United States. It has upset 

 the calculations of many others than 

 seedsmen. 



The date of May 10 was set for 

 opening bids for grass and field seeds for 

 government use by the general supply 

 committee at Washington, D. C. No 

 specific quantities were set, but quota- 

 tions were asked on lots of fifty pounds, 

 on lots of fifty to ninety-nine pounds and 

 in lots of 100 pounds and over. 



The average progeny of each pound of 

 watermelon seed planted for the com- 

 mercial production of watermelons in 1921 

 was 135 melons, it is stated. Over 450,000 

 pounds of seed were required to plant the 

 total commercial acreage of 153,877 acres, 

 from which 61,917 carloads of 1,000 

 melons each were produced. 



The building of the Manitowoc Pea 

 Canning Co., Manitowoc, Wis., was de- 

 stroyed by fire last week, causing $100,000 

 loss, only partly covered by insurance. 

 It was not used as a cannery, but as a 

 storehouse. The fire occurred on the thir- 

 teenth anniversary of the destruction by 

 fire of a building which was formerly on 

 the same site. 



Of the $1,500,000 provided in the seed 

 loan act for the relief of farmers in 

 drought-stricken areas of the northwest, 

 $784,734 had been lent up to April 30 to 

 6,361 farmers. Leon M. Estabrook, chair- 

 man of the seed loan committee, composed 

 of oflScials of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, says that applica- 

 tions for loans for the purchase of seed 

 have come in rapidly and that the entire 

 sum available will probably be exhausted 

 by May 15. 



WESTEBNEBS HOLD MEETING. 



The twenty-second annual meeting of 

 the Western Seedsmen's Association 

 ■was held at 10 a. m. April 29, at the 

 Hotel Fontenelle, Omaha, Neb. This, 

 the spring meeting, was presided over 

 by President Fred W. Mangelsdorf. 

 About thirty-five seedsmen attended the 

 meeting and the time was spent in dis- 

 cussing future prospects, garden seed, 

 etc. 



The present officers and board of di- 

 rectors were reelected for the ensuing 

 year, as follows: President, Fred W. 

 Mangelsdorf; vice-president, Harold 

 Chesmore; secretary, Max F. Wilhelmi, 

 and treasurer, Henry Windheim. 



Luncheon was served to the members 



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