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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_40_1 (find matches)
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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52 The Florists'Review •T^ June 21, 1917. Seed Trade News THE DETROIT CONVENTION. Largest Ever Held. Following on the heels of the most unusual season the seed trade ever has experienced, the attendance at the thir- ty-fifth annual convention of the na- tional organization of seedsmen ap- pears to be the largest on record. ■ The consensus about the Hotel Pon- chartrain, Detroit, where the conven- tion is being held, is that it has been a wonderful season. Of course, higher prices have accounted for part of the increase, but usually only for a small part of it. Everyone reports an in- crease, mostly forty to sixty per cent, but some 100, 200 or even 300 per cent. The marvel is, where did they get the stock to do it with? The high cost of food of course is responsible. It is ex- pected to continue. Consequently an- other big season is expected next year; not so large as this one, perhaps, as many an amateur's garden will fail and discourage him, but still enough to make the question of supply the all-im- portant one today. "What have you for sale?" It is the question heard on all sides. Stocks of vegetable and field seeds are at the lowest ebb in the his- tory of the trade. It appears there has been no unusual demand for flower seeds. Getting Down to Business. ii The program was outlined with only four sessions, two open and two execu- tive. President White introduced Wil- ber Brotherton to make an address of welcome and Watson S. Woodruff to re- ply. Each was brief, eloquent and witty. The president's annual address, which will be found in full in this issue, was referred to the executive committee, but for the members who registered for the draft Ailing Woodruff expressed hearty concurrence in the recommendation that the trade do not seek occupational ex- emption from military service. J. L. Hunt was named to act on the membership committee, in place of H. G. Hastings, unavoidably detained, and the committee subsequently reported favorably on twenty-four applicants, the largest list in years. J. A. Jossman, Leonard Vaughan and Lee Gillespie were named as a banquet committee. David Burpee, Linnaeus Allen and Ed. Leonard were appointed as the auditing committee. On motion of George S. Green, a reso- lution was adopted expressing the sense of the meeting that, in view of the cour- teous and full service which American seedsmen enjoy on the part of the Cana- dian seed control office, the Secre- tary of Agriculture at Washington be petitioned to grant similar facilities to Canadian seedsmen with regard to our import law. Committee Beports. In a general way, conditions in the seed trade have been less disturbed this year than usual and the committee re- ports, part presented at the open ses- sion June 19 and part at the executive session June 20, reflected the high de- gree of business activity and the abate-
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Kirby B. White. (President American Seed Trade Association.) ment of outside pressure. It was ap- parent, however, in the report of the May conference of the executive com- mittee with government officials at Washington and in some of the other reports, that pressure is being increased to secure the marking of all important packages of grass and field seeds with full information regarding the con- tents. Also, with the development of facilities for prompt tests, a change in the attitude of the trade is apparent. No seedsman of standing objects to stating the exact nature of the stock offered and many, indeed, believe volun- tary control measures will result great- ly to the benefit of the legitimate trade, the objection being to the application of impracticable standards and the im- position of harsh penalties for mistakes. The standing committees and their chairmen, most of whom reported brief- ly, are: Legislative—Jolin L. Hunt. Postal Laws—W. F. Tlierkildson. Experiment Stations—L. L. Olds. Government Ciiarges—C. D. Boyles. Tariit—J. C. Vaughan. Terms of Credit—L. B. McCausland. Nomenclature—H. G. Hastings. Pure Seed Growers' Associations—C. A. Burp- ham. There also was a report from Counsel Curtis Nye Smith, who also is counsel for and secretary of the American Asso- ciation of Nurserymen. The Association's Year. C. E. Kendel, sq^etary and treas- urer, reported on the business year as follows: RECEIPTS. Balance, June, 1916 $1,386,73 Initiation fees 500.00 Dues for the year 2,865.00 Contributions 100.00 Interest fund 58.72 Total $4,910.45 EXPENDITURES. Stenographer's ffervlces $ 120.50 Secretary's salary 400.00 Counsel's retainer 1,625.00 Counsel's fees and expenses 682.21 Retiring president's expenses ".. 50.00 Legislative committee expenses 25.66 Initiation fees returned 25.00 League dues 25.00 Printing annual report 276.85 Other printing 48.75 Cuts for report 3.85 Stamps and stationery 45.00 Badges 46.76 Incidentals 8.74 Total $3,383.31 Balance on hand 1,527.14 Total $4,910.45 The total membership for the year, including three honorary, is 196. Papers and Addresses. It seems that seedsmen no longer have anything new to say to each other, as the programs of recent years have been, in steadily increasing proportion, made up of papers and addresses by those the trade calls "scientists," men whose work is connected with agricul- tural research, instruction or the admin- istration of laws. This year the pro- gram announcements were limited to two, both at the open session Tuesday afternoon, June 19, as follows: "Voluntary Seed Control," by Hon. George H. Clark, seed commissioner for the Dominion of Canada. "Disease Resistance in Plants," by Dr. L. R. .Tones, plant pathologist at the University of Wisconsin. > At the executive session on the morn- ing of June 20, H. A. Johns, of Sioux City, la., led a discussion to which the secretary had assigned the title "Crop Stealing." It is a subject of which nearly every seedsman is sure to be full after a season of rising prices. The remedy lies not so much in the law as in cooperation. n

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