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Fhe Florists^ Review 



JUNB 15. 1922 



THE SEED TRADE AND THE STATE. 



(Continued from page KW.) 



trash on some of our honest retailers, to 

 the detriment of both retailer and far- 

 mer. Not long ago a neighbor of mine 

 purchased a lot of sweet clover seed 

 from a local seed dealer. This seed was 

 sold under the usual ironclad guarantee 

 of the wholesale house. The local dealer 

 thought he was making an honest deal 

 and accommodating the farmer. But to 

 this day, not more than a dozen sweet 

 clover plants have ever showed them- 

 selves on this 4-acre tract of land on 

 which the farmer sowed fifteen pounds 

 of seed to the acre. Was the loss of the 

 crop to the farmer the only damage done 

 by this unfortunate sale? By no means! 

 I happen to know this farmer purchases 

 several hundred pounds of clover and 

 other seeds each year, but not one pound 

 does he now purchase from the firm that 

 cheated him. Moreover, he advises his 

 neighbors not to buy from this firm, 

 because he has found it unreliable; and 

 they take his advice. 



This farmer did not raise a hubbub 

 and take the matter into court. He was 

 too wise to spend $50 to regain $10. He 

 simply took his loss and advised his 

 neighbors. Had he taken it to court 

 the matter might liave been satisfac- 

 torily arranged and confidence restored. 

 But he acts on the proposition that the 

 burned child fears the fire, and his con- 

 fidence can never be regained by this 

 firm which was vijctimized by an un- 

 scrupulous wholesaler. 



Laws Governing Seed Trade. 



Dealers have to meet the farmer's 

 contention that his wheat turned to 

 cheat; his cabbage to collards, and his 

 red clover to white, though satisfied that 

 the seeds originally purchased were true 

 to variety name and purity guaranteed. 

 The farmer, not knowing that thousands 

 of weed seeds will lie dormant in the 

 cultivated soil for years and come up 

 only when the land is seeded down, 

 finds his pastures and meadows covered 

 with weeds and charges the seedsman 

 with their presence, maintaining that 

 the dealer sold him impure seed in the 

 beginning. Then again, an ordinary 

 cyclone will scatter weed and otlier seeds 

 far and wide and sow lands to weeds 

 entirely unknown in the localities be- 

 fore. 



Our laboratory has, for a number of 

 years, made a sympatlietic study of the 

 seed business both from the standpoint 

 of the dealer and that of the -farmer. 

 Changes became necessary to meet exist- 

 ing conditions in the seed trade. Only 

 last year, if our old standards liad been 

 rigidly adhered to, our seedsmen could 

 not have legally handled seed oats at 

 all, because it seemed impossible to get 



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