The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1885-05-09
HIGH-PRICED SEEDS.
$500 an Ounce for Flower Seed-Oats
at 95 Bushei.

In many OF the Offices around and
in the big Produce Exchange there
are numerous little shallow boxes
piled on window slls, tables, and
desks. The boxes are generally filled
with corn and wheat and other grain,
samples OF the stocks held in the big
elevators and stores along the river
fronts and in the fleets of canal boats
in the Brooklyn basins. A grain
dealer was running his hand through
a sample of No. spring wheat when
a ayonng man said
Good as gold"
"ies, but unlike other farm pro-
db,ts; 1t is not worth its weight in
gold
"squashes, for instance ?"
perhaps you would like to know
something about high priced facm
products. There is u new variety OF
oats, called the Clydesdale. A meas
urcd bushel weighs fifty one pounds.
While they will not retain their full
weight in this country, they double
the market value OF the product OF an
oat field. The enterprising farmer
pays s. a bushel for his seed. There
is the new Fife spring wheat, which
sells for $3 "A bushcl, and the new
styles OF field corn known as Chester
Mammoth and Golden Dent sell for
about the same.
''In the matter OF garden seeds, the
farmer must pay prices that make
him squeal. Last year Newark
man brought out what is known az
st.tt Ii
Unlike common celery lit does not
need to be banked up to whiten the
leaves, and, what is more, these
leaves are as much like ostrich feath-
ers ~ anything you can imagine.
During the American Institute Fair
the plants on exhibition were ire
quently torn to pieces by guests who
used the leaves for buttonhole bou-
quets. The seeds man who is intro
ducing the plant paid $3.50 for small
truck load OF the plants, and he now
sells the seed at $40 pound.
"A new French bean is selling at
so cents a quart The new Eclipse
beet seed sells for $3.50 pound,
while the seed OF the new lettuce
called the Oak Leaf sells for 81 an
ounce. Even new variety OF par
sley is high priced, the seed OF the
style called Emerald selling for 81 a
pound.
E. "You sarcsstically mentioned the
squash. That was because you didn't
know all about squashes. There was
specimen OF new squash on exhibi-
ton in this town last fall for several
weeks that weighed 223 pounds. Its
fiavor was as excellent az its size was
enormous. The seeds obtained from
this big squash sell for 3 cents apiece
or " All ounce.
But when you want to find farm
products that are really worth their
weight in gold you must take the
HOVER seeds raised by the farmers
wiie. This year there are a great
variety OF new flowers. II would be-
wilder you to name them. These
seeds are always sold by the packet,
AT IRON 70 to 80 cents a packet. That
sounds cheap, but there are new
styles in daisies, lady's slippers,
pe'unlas and pansies, the seeds Of
which are worth in the market by the
ounce sum that will take your breath
away. The petunia grandihora is a
sample. 1t is an exceedingly beauti-
iul Hover. TIE packages OF seeds
contain 300 or 400 seeds each, AT the
seed is an impalpab BILE powder almost,
~ Is so fine. The package retails at
10 cents, but by the ounce the seed is
worth $500. An ounce will make
1900 packages. You can see what
the retail price Of flower seeds and
the retailers profits are from that
statement"