REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 



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MARKET GROWERS JOURNAL 



Another point in this connection. The Market Growers Journal 

 was last year adopted as our official organ. The management of 

 this paper has agreed to allow our members subscription at half price, 

 provided it comes through the Secretary's office. This is undoubt- 

 edly the leading commercial vegetable paper of the country. 



SEED SERVICE 



We have perhaps put more energy into and given more thought 

 to work with reference to good seed than any other phase of our activi- 

 ties. It has been the feeling from the time the Association was 

 organized that, although our work was primarily educational and 

 the place we were to fill was similar to the place filled by the Western 

 New York Horticultural Society for the fruit growing interests, yet 

 the need has been felt for some actual dollars-and-cents benefit to 

 members. This is a phase of the work in which we must proceed 

 with considerable caution. We are looking into our offerings very 

 carefully. All of the old members have received letters offering 

 certain strains of seed. Among these were two splendid strains of 

 onions, one grown in this state, and one strain grown in Ohio, $2.00 

 a pound in both cases; but many growers are glad to paj^ the price 

 for such strains as these, and they feel that the results come when 

 they gather the crop. It does not take very much difference in an 

 acre of onions to change the returns to the extent of $6.00. However, 

 I hope that as soon as we can handle larger quantities of seed, we mil 

 be able to get considerably better prices. In fact we are already 

 negotiating for the growing of a quantity of high grade seed under 

 contract for 1914 planting. 



(Upon presentation of the details of the plan, members present 

 agreed to take a total of 72 pounds of this seed.) 



Mr. Work: Here is another proposition. Last year quite a 

 little was said about the high price of seed peas. We have exerted 

 some effort to find a source of good seed peas. We must always 

 face this difficulty, that wholesale dealers do not want to handle 

 small quantities, but we are getting in touch with growers and 

 dealers here and there who are willing to do this. We are investigat- 

 ing, and corresponding with one or two Canadian firms. We are 

 offering this year seed of several varieties from one of them at a very 

 low figure as compared with seedsmen's prices. 



