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The Rorists' Review 



Jdlt 3, 1018. 



Onions for seed in Ohio are not look- 

 ing any too well. 



Beans are looking fine to date. 

 Weather conditions from planting to late 

 June were ideal. 



There have been good rains in parts of 

 Michigan and Wisconsin. Not all the 

 peas will have been hard hit by heat. 



The weather has been extremely dry 

 and hot for over a month in the prin- 

 cipal seed growing sections of the middle 

 west. 



The death of Sam Sibley, for many 

 years traveler for the Leonard Seed Co., 

 Chicago, is recorded in this week 's obit- 

 uary coliunn. 



J. W. Edmundson, of the California 

 Seed Growers ' Association, San Jose, Cal., 

 spent July 1 in Chicago, en route home 

 from the seed trade convention. 



The temperature at Sacramento June 

 30 was 92 degrees in the shade with a 

 16-mile wind. The damage to the crops 

 up the river must have been considerable. 



Reports from Holland at the begin- 

 ning of June, when lifting of tulips had 

 been begun, were not of optimistic char- 

 acter. Crops will not be up to last 

 year. 



The onion set crop at Chillicothe is not 

 any too flourishing. Harvesting has been 

 begun at LouisvUle. At Chicago the 

 present outlook is for not over half a 

 crop, less if rain is long delayed. 



The board of public works of Evans- 

 ville, Ind., temporarily turned down the 

 petition of the Ohio Valley Seed Co., for 

 a switch from the Southern Eailway 

 tracks into its property on Indiana and 

 Eowley streets. 



Contrary to all early expectations, the 

 turnip seed crop at Nashville, Tenn., has 

 proven almost a failure. Just as the 

 plants were in full bloom, there was a 

 freeze that caused blighting and just be- 

 fore maturity the aphis got on them so 

 badly that there were some fields unfit to 

 cut at all. The leading grower there is 

 said to be delivering ten per cent on his 

 contracts. From present indications there 

 will be a short crop of cow peas, even if 

 there should be plenty of rain from now 

 until the end of the season. There are 

 many fields that have already started to 

 die. 



Most seed stores will close from Thurs- 

 day, July 3, to Monday, July 7. 



Of the Barteldes Seed Co., Denver, 

 J. R. Kern and J. M. Wiesel are joint 

 managers. 



Apparently the peas will get their 

 usual backset again this year. The three 

 weeks following June 20 ordinarily are 

 the critical time with the crop and the 

 weather has been unusually hot and dry 

 this season. 



ti. '"^KKK^' ' 



Charles C Massie. 



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There are reports in the daily papers 

 of rains in California but telegraph ad- 

 vices July 1 say there has been po pre- 

 cipitation of consequence in the seed 

 growing sections. Bain at this time of 

 course would do at least as much harm as 

 good. 



A VERDICT of $3,000 has been returned 

 against the widow of the late W. "V^. Eaw- 

 son, the Boston seedsman. Katherine 

 McLeod, the nurse who attendcid Mr. 

 Rawson, was injured by a fall on his 

 stairs. She brought suit. The Superior 

 court found for the defendant; but the 

 Supreme court, June 20, returned a judg- 

 ment against the widow. 



SEED TBADE CONVENTION. 



Oleveland Meeting Concluded. 



In The Review for June 26 there was- 

 a full report of the first two days of 

 the thirty-first annual convention, 

 which opened at Cleveland June 24; 

 report of financial and membership 

 strength, papers read, committee re- 

 ports and a general survey of the busi- 

 ness before the convention, which prin- 

 cipally related to seed legislation and 

 the parcel post. The convention, which 

 was a three-day affair, concluded 

 Thursday morning, June 26, v^ith the 

 election of the following officers: 



Officers Elected. 



President — Charles C. Massie, of 

 Northrup, King & Co., Minneapolis, 

 Minn. 



First vice-president — W. M. Lupton, 

 of J. M. Lupton, Mattituck, N. Y. 



Second vice-president — W. F. Thir- 

 kelson, of Storrs & Harrison Co., Paines- 

 ville, O. 



Secretary and treasurer — C. E. Ken- 

 del, of A. C. Kendel, Cleveland, O. 



Assistant secretary— S. D. Williard, 

 Jr., with A. C. Kendel, Cleveland, O. 



Executive committee — Charles N. 

 Page, of Iowa Seed Co., Des Moines, 

 la.; L. B. McCausland, of Ross Bros., 

 Wichita, Kan.; Kirby B. White, of D. 

 M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Mich.; Mar- 

 shall H. Duryea, of Nungesser-Dickinson 

 Co., New York; F. W. Bolgiano, of J. 

 Bolgiano & Son, Baltimore, Md. 



Membership committee — Albert Mc- 

 CuUough, of J. M. McCuUough's Sons 

 Co., Cincinnati, O.; Arthur B. Clark, of 

 Everett B. Clark Seed Co., Milford, 

 Conn.; J. C. Robinson, of J. C. Robinson 

 Seed Co., Waterloo, Neb. 



The place of meeting is determined by 

 the executive committee at its meeting 

 in January. 



New Members. 



The membership committee reported 

 favorably on the applications of the 

 following, and election ensued: 



W. H. Morehouse & Co., Toledo, 0. 

 Stanford Seed Co., Buffalo, N. Y. 

 Van Antwerp Seed Co., Mobile, Ala. 

 Pittman & Harrison Co., Sherman, Tex. 

 Canghy & Curran Co., Detroit, Mich. 

 Charles D. Boylea, Chicago, 111. 

 Porter- Walton Co., Salt Lake City, Utah. 



This brings the paid-up membership 



to 179 and gives the association the 



The American Seed Trade Association Visited John D. Rockefeller at Forest Hill, Cleveland, June 24. 



