The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-01-04

Charles Parker. Of Santa Clara. Cal, will
on January 10, begin to put up the seeds
| for Congressional distribution. He secured
the contract some months ago being the
! lowest bidder. He will employ a large
number of women and girls. who VIII l95e
the seeds in packets. so many packets to
the pound, and then assert these packets
/ into packages OF five packets each, Inc
work being done in Washington
/ Each member of Congress will then be
entitled to so many packages of each kind
OF seeds which will soon be flying through
the mails TO voters all over the country.
/ When the flowers. vegetables, or grasses
push their tiny heads above the ground,
the voters will rise up and call their Rep
/ rcsentatives in Congress blessed.
To adjust the seed distribution properly
as TO the varieties of seeds most suitable
| 10 different localities was matter OF
great difficulty and was never done salts
| factorily until r. J. Whittleton. Chief OF
! the Seed Division. took the matter in hand.
Under the law Representatives in
| Congress must receive, as nearly
as possible. seeds of equal value.
/ By carefully scanning price lists. invesu-
eating the seeds of different sections of
the country and juggling with various fig
| lures Mr.. Whittleton has produced table
which shows at glance what seeds a
member OF Congress il entitled 70.
The seeds are divided into five classes
| vegetable. flower, tobacco. cotton, aud
| lawn grass. Vegetable seeds come first
1 g
I bles are in demand and ten times as many
packages Of these seeds are distributed a.,
OF Others.
Theoretically a Representative is entitled
| to some OF each OF the Eve kinds Of seed
but as cotton is not grown in sOES local.
ties or tobacco in others. there are few
who receive all five kinds of seeds.
The Senators from Arkansas and the
! Representatives from the Fifth and Sixth
districts OF that State tho Senators and
members from Florida. the Senators from
Georgia. and the Representative from the
Ninth district OF that State. the Senator
and Representative from Mississippi. the
1 Senators from North Carolina. and Repre-
sentatIves Of five North Carolina d's'Fi- Is.
all the Representatives from South Carolina
] and all from Tennessee except the Repre-
| sentatiyes from the First ard Second dis
| tricts receive 4.S9O packages OF vegetable
Z
! packages of tobacco seeds. 230 quarts Of
: cottonseed. and 50 packages CT Iswn-g grass
seed.
Every member Of Congress receives
| 900 packages Of flower seeds adapted T.
the locality from which be comes.
Some districts produce Gotten. but no TO-
| bacCo. while others produce tobacco, bu,
no cotton and some produce neither. Sc
when a member gets cCttOusced or tobacco
10. a
is diminished prCpoTtiOnally. as pack
/ age OF tobacco seed is counted equal To a
package of vegetable seeds.
| These who receive 10 packages OF tobac-
| so seed lose 10 packages OF vegetable
! seeds. C0jtonseed comes 10y the quart and
go quarts equal go packages Of vegetable
! seeds. Lawn grass grows everywhere, 80
all members are given go packages Of these
goods.
Tobacco seed is sent to districts in Arkan-
sas. Connecticut, Florida, Georgia. Illinois
Indiana, Kentucky. Maryland. Massachu-
| sets. Mississippi Missouri, New York
North Carolina Ohio Pennsylvania. South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wesi
Virginia. and Wisconsin Certain Repre-
seuIatives from Alabama, Arkansas, Flor
/ ida Georgia, Louisiana. Mississippi. North
| Carolina. South Carolina. Tennessee. and
! Texas receive cottOnseCd. The others gel
nothing but vegetable, flower. and grass
seeds. Senators are treated on par viii
[ the most favored Representative
| The asserting OF seeds is done with great
care. One package OF vegetable SEEDS Will
! contain beet cucumber. onion, radish. and
| bean seed; another pea, sweet corn, radlsh
] lettuce. and onion seed. and so on, the
packages being as near equal in weight as
possible.
OF the beet seed 1.164 coo packets are
| purchased running Ga TO the pound and d.
vided into six varieties. Ten thousand
pounds of cucumber seeds give b0QO0'
packets. n. GOO pounds Of four varieties ol
lettuce seed are made up into 243,20O pack
cts. five varieties OF muskmelonS turnlsn
$50. coo packets.
| An equal number OF packets OF water
| melon seeds are bought. or onion seed
5000 pounds are distributed, which are d.
vided into 2 i96. 600 packets and comprise
five varieties.
There are 2.496 600 packets OF radish
| seed while ? 900 bushels OF peas and the
| same quantity of beans yield 100000 pack
cts OF each, and the same number OF pack
cts is obtained from 5000 bushels Of sweet
corn.
There are four varieties OF peas and
higher. so only 300 pounds of this seed are
purchased OF FIVE varieties, Of which 81,
200 packets are made.
| COttOnsecd to the amount Of 725 bushels
yields 1920 packages, or quarts, and the
$4,000 pounds Of Kentucky bluegrass, done
up in half-pOund packages. furnishes 5000
packets. About million packets OF flower
seeds are distributed, comprising many va