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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
THE AMERICAN CHILD HEALTH ASSOCIATION, 370 
SEVENTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY 
Should Add Fruit Growing to the Experiment 
Fargo, North Dakota, has been experiencing a boom 
in the seed trade for garden vegetables, according to re¬ 
ports to the American Child Health Association. And 
the result is that probably more vegetables have been 
grown this season in that citv than ever before. 
The reason for the boom is that the city is trying a 
huge experiment in finding out just what progress can 
be made in child health conservation by any community 
which goes at the task in a systematic manner. The 
demonstration, as the experiment is called, which is the 
first of three in the Commonwealth Fund Child Health 
Demonstration program, revealed at the outset that this 
hig grain-producing country was allowing undernourish¬ 
ment of children through lack of vegetables. So Dr. Wil¬ 
liam J. French, director of the demonstration, and Miss 
Cara L. Harris, expert in nutrition, began a campaign 
among the Fargo folks for the planting of more vege¬ 
tables. Now Miss Harris is busy with the extra work of 
showing Fargo housewives the hest method of preserving 
these health foods. 
WASHINGTON ELM DEAD 
The Washington elm at Cambridge, Mass., is dead. 
The official demise of the famed tree beneath which 
Washington took command of the Continental Army was 
announced by Dr. C. S. Sargent, director of the Arnold 
Arboretum, of Harvard University, in a letter to Mayor 
Edward W. Quinn, of Cambridge. 
Mayor Quinn is eager to raise a fund from the school 
children of the country for a shaft to mark the historic 
spot when the tree has disappeared. 
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES 
PRESS SERVICE 
Julius H. Barnes, president of the Chamber of Commerce of 
the United States, in an address before the National As¬ 
sociation of Insurance Agents, cited ten production records that 
have been established in industry during the last few months. 
They are: 
The largest pig iron production; 
The largest cotton consumption; 
The largest steel ingot production; 
The largest crude oil production; 
The largest automobile and truck production; 
The largest residential construction; 
The largest production of locomotives; 
The largest volume of mail-order sales; 
The largest volume of retail sales; 
The largest volume of railroad car loadings. 
Mr. Barnes also made several significant comparisons cf 
changes that have taken place in the United States since the 
pre-war year of 1913. The more important of these comparisons 
are: 
“The population of the United States has increased fourteen 
millions of people, with their enlarged requirements. 
“The annual national income has increased from thirty-four 
billion, to fifty billion. 
“The aggregate savings deposits have increased from six bil¬ 
lion to fourteen billion dollars. 
“The deposits in national banks have increased from six bil¬ 
lion to seventeen billion dollars.” 
SAORSTAT EIRE ANN 
The above name perhaps will seem strange to many, but 
will be recognized by Irishmen as the name of their coun¬ 
try—The Irish Free State. 
A notice has been received from the Federal Horticul¬ 
tural Board of the United States Department of Agricul¬ 
ture relative to importation of plants from other coun¬ 
tries into the Irish Free State. 
The order requires that each consignment shall be ac¬ 
companied by two copies of a certificate issued after 
inspection, and not more than 14 days prior to the date of 
shipment, by a duly authorized official of the country 
whence the plants are exported. The form of certificate is 
prescribed in the order. The original must he forwarded 
by post to the department by the exporter before the 
plants are despatched. The plants must be certified to 
be healthy and free from any of the diseases and pests 
named in the order. Moreover, plants will not be deemed 
to he healthy which are attacked by any insect or pest 
mentioned in the Sale of Diseased Plants (Ireland) Order 
1922. In the case of consignments imported through the 
post a copy of the certificate must be affixed to each 
package. 
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES 
The Chamber of Commerce of the United States has 
created a Bureau of Agriculture. This bureau has been 
set up by the National Chamber to function upon agri¬ 
cultural problems, as agricultural lines of interest cross 
or touch those of business in general. 
The new bureau will have as its manager, William 
Harper Dean, of Washington, formerly with the United 
States Department of Agriculture. In keeping with the 
general policy of the Chamber of Commerce of the United 
States this new bureau will make no effort to formulate 
on its own iniative any plans to offer for adoption by 
either agricultural or other industries but rather to serve 
as an investigator of their problems and to offer the re¬ 
sults of these studies for such action as that may seem to 
warrant. 
It is more than likely that some of the problems in 
connection with the nursery industry will be worth while 
putting before Mr. Dean. There are problems such as 
uniform inspection laws and others of national character 
for which the National Chamber of Commerce might give 
invaluable aid. 
A POOR GROWING SEASON IN THE EAST 
The growing season in some parts of the country at 
least, has been anything but a good one. 
The nursery centers along the Atlantic seaboard have 
suffered very much on account of the drouth. The 
spring plantings have had very little rain on them, with 
a resulting high death rate and poor growth of those 
that did survive. 
The late growing plants of course have lots of time 
yet to make up and the welcome rains of the last few 
days have made things look much more cheerful. 
