People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1895 — VICTIMIZED WITH POOR SEED. [ARTICLE]

VICTIMIZED WITH POOR SEED.

Report That Is of Vital Interest to American Farmers. Washington, July 3.—An immense amount of poor seed is sold to American farmers and gardeners, according to a report recently issued by the agricultural department. While other countries have been looking into the subject with a view to protecting their agi-iculturists from abuses, no investigations have been made in the United States except at a few experimental stations. Great apathy prevails, however, among purchasers, who, as a rule, buy the cheapest seed in the maiw.-i and trust'to luck for it to produce tne crop. Such seed, says the report, is dear at any price and the prin.-ipai source of the hosts of bad weeds, wnusn eradication costs vastly more than the few cents a pound extra which gaud seed would have cost. The report makes the charge that American seed has acquired a poor reputation in foreign countries, in 'some of which it is difficult for it to gain a foothoid through prejudice.