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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Afbil 6, 1911. 



Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Mr. 

 Adamson was a member of the com- 

 mittee during Mr. Mann's chairman- 

 ship. He has attended the hearings 

 given the seed trade and has a good 

 grasp on the subject of pure seed leg- 

 islation. That Mr. Adamson does not 

 take the matter so seriously as does 

 Mr. Mann, but that he nevertheless 

 expects to see progress along the lines - 

 of recent restrictive legislation, is 

 shown by his reply to Kirby B. White, 

 of Perry & Co., at the hearing of Feb- 

 ruary 2: 



Mr. White: "Is Congress ready to 

 embark on the field of federal regula- 

 tion with regard to saying that the 

 purchaser of every 5-cent packet of 

 seeds, or every $2 pair of shoes, or 

 every ice cream freezer, or anything 

 of that kind, shall get his money's 

 worth!" 



Mr. Adamson: "We have already 

 entered upon it, and in less than 

 twenty-five years they will trim the 

 corns and toe nails and name the 

 babies. ' ' 



DODGING THE DUTIES? 



Congressman James E. Mann, who is 

 not from Missouri, but who nevertheless 

 has to be shown, harbors a new suspi- 

 cion of wrongdoing against the seed 

 trade — he fears dutiable seeds may be 

 escaping the payment of duty because 

 of similarity of appearance of seeds 

 that are on the free list. Pursuing in- 

 vestigation along this line, he and Kirby 

 B. White, of D. M. Ferry & Co., had 

 the following dialogue at the recent 

 hearing on pure seed bills at Wash- 

 ington: 



Mr. Mann. Can you tell sugar-beet 

 seed from garden-beet seedf 



Mr. White. N«, sir. 



Mr. Mann. Can you tell mangel-wur- 

 zel seed from garden-beet seedf 



Mr. White. I am not a seed expert; 

 I do not know whether they can be dis- 

 tinguished, but I can not tell them. 



Mr. Mann. You say you are not a 

 seed expert. I supposed you were here 

 as a seed expert. 



Mr. White. I have been engaged in 

 the seed business for seventeen years, 

 and of necessity any business is diver- 

 sified and requires specialization, and 

 my specialization has not been along 

 the line of determining from the ap- 

 pearance of the seed what that variety 

 is, 



Mr. Mann. But you come as an ex- 

 pert and tell us that you can not mix 

 weed seed with garden seed, that you 

 can not tell the varieties of garden seed, 

 and that it is impossible to tell the 

 viability. 



Mr. White. I have told the things 

 which I knew. 



Mr. Mann. Are you an expert on 

 those three things f 



Mr, White. So far as the statements 

 I have made here are concerned, I 

 know they are true. More than that, I 

 make no claim to be an expert. 



Mr. Mann. Is the trade able to dis- 

 tinguish the difference between a man- 

 gel-wurzel seed and a garden-beet seedf 



Mr. White. So far as I am concerned, 

 I can not. I do not know what the 

 rest of the trade can do. I can refer 

 you to some other seedsmen here who 

 can answer that. 



Mr. Mann, You know, there is a 

 tariff of 4 cents a pound on garden-beet 

 seed, and no tariff on mangel-wurzel 

 seed or sugar-beet seed. 



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