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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
“FREE SEEDS'’ 
Up to and until about the time the pussywillows bloomed and 
the maple buds swelled, it looked as though one of the most 
ancient and time-honored little grafts of the Congressmen of 
these United States was endangered. Apparently the “free-seed 
graft” hadn’t a friend on earth. It had looked that way many, 
many times before. 
This year, however, when Secretary of Agriculture Wallace 
asked Congress for funds needed in his department, right joy¬ 
fully did he leave “free seeds” off the list. Seedless the bill went 
through the House Appropriations Committee. Then when it 
came before the House, some sterling husbandman, thumbs cal¬ 
loused by contact with his vest armholes, rose up and wrote $360,- 
000 worth of “free seeds” into the bill and the House approved. 
An unfeeling Senate committee, over the votes and protests of 
Senators William J. Harris, of Georgia; Pat Harrison, of Missis¬ 
sippi, and Lee S. Overman, of South Carolina, again eliminated 
the measure. On the Senate floor some other sterling son of the 
fields policital brought it up and it was beaten, 29 to 24. 
Naturally, Washington had a right to be amazed. Seemingly 
the puissant Senate had made good its biennial threat. Not so, 
Lo and behold, the Senate reconsidered and tenderly and sooth¬ 
ingly tucked it all back into the measure, 31 votes to 30! As it 
had been, so was it to be. There will continue to be free seeds 
and the springtime will remain regular and orthodox. 
But who wants them? The embattled farmers of the “farm 
bloc” were not ordered to get them. The American Farm Bureau, 
that made the “bloc” and in whose hands it is as warm putty, 
for months has been referring to the whole business as “that 
free-seed graft.” Farmers grin when you mention “free seeds” 
and usually use them in the grain mash for the hens. Backyard 
gardeners even sneer at them. Secretary Wallace tried to ignore 
them and is doubtless considering mournfully the many things 
that $360,000 might have done. 
Who then does want them and plant them? That’s easy. Con¬ 
gressmen want them and Congressmen plant them in those politi¬ 
cal furrows that are surrounded by their political fences. They 
are to grow all over the honorable members’ districts and flower 
into votes. Here is the time-ordained chance to dump numerous 
little packages with his facsimile signature in the upper right- 
hand corner, “M. C.,” and all complete, in the mails. He pictures 
these manilla envelopes going out over the district each carrying 
maybe four withered lima beans, or six grains of Early Bantam 
corn or a spoonful of Mammoth Yellow beet seed to the folks back 
home. It makes his heart warm. Has he not reminded every 
voter on the mailing list that he is down in Washington, toiling 
away and saving the Nation and yet finding time to think of 
the voter and remembering to send him these gracious little gifts? 
He has. Wherefore no caitiff hand of budgetaire is to come be¬ 
tween the member of Congress and his “free seed.” And there, 
or therabout, in a manner of speaking, you are !—Philadelphia 
Public Ledger. 
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