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The Florists^ Review 



Junk 29. 1i»22 



ciation of Oflicial Seed Aiialvsts, was 

 "cooperative" jn spirit, attoiidaiice ami 

 ill oratorical exjires.sioii. In lioiior of 

 the occasion, President Olds surrendered 

 his chair to Dean T. W. Taylor, of the 

 New Hampshire Agricultural College. 

 The dean is president of the Associa- 

 tion of Official Secnl Analysts. Tt was 

 notable tliat at some place in every talk 

 or ])aper there was a hope expressed 

 that better team work between the dif- 

 ferent branches of the trade might be 

 accomplished. 



The first speaker introduced, Dr. C. R. 

 Orton, professor of ])1ant pathology at 

 I'ennsylvania State College, discussed 

 ' ' Keed-Rorne Diseases." Dr. Orton 

 showed, mostly by examj)le, what has 

 l)een accomplished in various states, 

 ('s|)ecialh^ Pennsylvania, in combating 

 diseases emanating in the seed. He 

 ]iointed out how more could ]>e done if 

 there was a better organization Ijetween 

 the trade and the laboiatories. Photo- 

 graj)hs were passed about showing how 

 winter blight affects tomatoes. 



Tips from the Analysts. 



E. IT. Toole, of the Dejiartment of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C., aimed 

 to prove in his lecture, on "Research 

 and Seed Testing," just how important 

 it is to keep trueness to ty])e j)aramount. 

 He showe(i the many angles that an 

 analyst must work from, explained the 

 difficulties presented in a study of 

 dormancy and described methods of 

 seed treatment. Vegetable seeds and 

 flower seeds, he explained, require 

 varied attention. He proved to satis- 

 faction how important it is for seeds- 

 men to present their problems to the 

 analyst, so that a spirit of mutual h(d])- 

 fulness may develop between those who 

 arc commercially engaged and those 

 who work in theory only. 



Ap])ropriately following Mr. Toole, 

 W. C. Pfaender, commercial seed an- 

 alyst of the Albert Dickinson Co., Chi- 

 cago, arose to deliver a pa])er on the 

 "I'roblenis of a Commercial Seed An- 

 alyst." The actual testing of seed, Mr. 

 Pfaender said, was not the greatest 

 trouble of a commercial analyst. Tag- 

 ging stfick for the different states pre- 

 sents tlie chief ])roblein. There ar(> 

 thirty-eight states witli seed laws and 

 they arc jiractically all different, he 

 explained. Wome require one method 

 of description, some another, and wdien 

 th(> same stock is sent to different states 

 with different laws the analyst must be 

 jierpetually watchful to see that no laws 

 are broken. -And mistakes are bound 

 to occur. These difficulties, it would 

 seiMn, are all pointing to uniformity in 

 seed laws. "We don't ask for tlie 

 abtdishnicnt of seed laws," said Mr. 

 T'faender; "what we want is uniform 

 ity." 



Next ajipcared Leonard If. Vaughan, 

 Chicago, with his ]ia]ier, "Safeguards in 

 the Seed Pusincss." This paper will 

 aj'pear in this (le|)Mrt iiicnt next week. 



The Seedsman's Side. 



(iroige S. (iiH'cn, of the Illinois Seed 

 Co., Chicago, in his ])aper on "Some fif 

 Ihc Difficulties Field Seedsmen Encoun- 

 ter in Securing Clean Seed,"' stated 

 that metliods and practices of iccleaners 

 of se(>(ls had improved under ;i more 

 gener;il dciuaiid for better seeds. "The 

 most diflicult ]iriible7n in the ajiplic ation 

 of seed analysis to the practical work 

 of the seedsman," said Mr. (ireeii. "is 

 the measure of exactness aii<l ]iurit\- 

 which is jiossibli'. rimsidrriug the i-aie- 



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less or even slovenly habits of Mother 

 Nature in putting weeds where they are 

 not wanted." Mr. Green pointed out 

 that the seed laws were still too lax. 

 lie listed six difficulties encountered by 

 the recleaners of seeds. "The efforts 

 for direct marketiufj and the elimina- 

 tion of middlemen will result in a net 

 loss to agricidture, if they do not recog- 

 nize the ]dace and service of the re- 

 cleaner of seeils who knows his business 

 and who is willing to conduct it along 

 projier lines," said Mr. Green. 



Following Mr. Green's talk, W. L. 

 Oswald spoke on "Cooperation." 



As Banqueters. 



Taking leave of business Thursday 

 excning, June 22, the seedsmen and tlie 

 analysts, the latter as guests, came to- 

 gether .'it the Sherman for a rousing 

 banquet. There was singing; there was 

 sjieaking; there was laughter; there was 

 j(i\'. T'lifford Coriieli was toastmaster. 

 He was introduced by President Olds. 

 " Kejiaratioiis and the Allied Debts" 

 was presented by Prof. G. II. Moulton, 

 of the l'ni\ersity of Chicago. A. E. 

 Hiiinker, jiresident of the Liquid Car- 

 lioiiic Co., Chicago, discussed present- 

 (la.^• conditions and ])ut a punch in his 

 talk with many humorous sidelights. 

 Tie predicted better business conditions 

 in the immediate future. 



Friday Morning. 



At llie Friday uKirniiig and final ses- 

 sion, H. H. Miller, of Hlnouiington. 111., 

 chairm.'in of the committee on experi- 

 ment stations, r(>poited results obtained 

 state by state, showing how, slowly but 

 surely, each locality was being planted 

 to till' iiKisf suitabli> crojis. C. C. Massic, 



of Minneapolis, chairman of the com- 

 mittee on seed-testing apparatus and 

 publicity, reported. 



At this point an interesting feature, 

 not scheduled, took place. J. E. Huber, 

 of an experiment station in the Argen- 

 tine, South America, was introduced. 

 He told of the big demand for American 

 produce in the foreign countries and of 

 the opportunities in South America for 

 young seedsmen. He predicted that 

 American corn could take the German 

 market entirely. He advised American 

 seedsmen and groA'ers to build humus; 

 specialize on ])ower gardens and not 

 depend on hand power, and to watch 

 irrigation. "There is plenty of land 

 worth millions in the south," he stated, 

 "which could be developed into wonder- 

 ful places — natural hothouses— but 

 which are being sold cheaply for other 

 purposes." 



.lames R. Howard, president of the 

 American Farm Federation, discussing 

 "The Farmer and the Seedsman," said 

 the farmers' bureau was, first, educa- 

 tional; second, social; and, third, eco- 

 nomic. H(> ex])laiued that the farmer 

 does not care for a great variety of seed 

 nor for many-paged catalogues, but that 

 the farmer does want to know what he 

 is getting — reliable seed standardized 

 and honestly merchandised. 



H. G. Hastings brought before the 

 meeting the discussion of bulletins is- 

 sued in certain states, at the state's 

 expense, which are practically nothing 

 but classified advertisements which can 

 be used by anyone, tradesman or not, 

 to advertise stock — at state expense. 

 Thes(> ])ulletins have the second-class 

 mailing rights and do not pay, as do 

 other publications. Since they were 



