The evening times., 1900-01-04
SAMPLE Seeds FOR MANY
The Annual Distribution to Farm
ers to Begin Next Week.
An Equal Portion Allotted to Each
Member Of Congress and by His
Direction Forwarded to His Con-
stituents-The Appropriation for
the Work Amounts to 100000.

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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 large
number of women and girls, who will place
the seeds in packets, so many packets to
the pound, and then assert these packets
into packages of five packets each, the
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
resentatives 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 satis-
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. investi-
eating the seeds of different sections of
the country and juggling with various fig
lures Mr.. Whitleton has produced a table
which shows at a glance what seeds
member of Congress il entitled TO.
The seeds are divided into five classes
vegetable. flower, tobacco cotton, and
lawn grass. Vegetable seeds come first.
fer in every section of the country vegeta-
bles are in demand. and ten times as many
packages of these seeds are distributed a,
of others.
Theoretically Representative is entitled
to some OF each of the five kinds of seed,
but as cotton is not grown in some locali-
ties or tobacco in others there are few
who receive all five kinds OF seeds.
Tne Senators from Arkansas and the
Representatives from the Fifth and Sixth
districts of that State. tho Senator'S and
members from Florida. the Senators from
Georgia. and the Representative from the
Ninth district OF that State. the Secat1is
and Representatives from Mississippi the
Senators from North Carolina. and Repre-
sentatives of five North Carolina d's'ri is
and all from Tennessee except the Repre-
sentatiyes from the First ard Second dis
tricts receive 4.s90 packages of vegetable
seeds 400 packages Of flower seeds. 10
packages of tobacco seeds. go quarts OF
cottCnseed, and so packages CT lswn-grass
seed
Every member OF Congress receives
400 packages of flower seeds adapted to
the locality from which he comes.
Some districts produce Gotten, but no to-
bacco. while others produce tobacco, but
no cotton and some produce neither. So
when a member gets cOttonseed or tobacco
seed. or both, his quota of vegetable seeds
is diminished prCportionally, as a 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. Cottonseed comes by the quart, and
go quarts equal go packages of vegetable
seeds. Lawn grass grows everywhere, so
all members are given 60 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, West
Virginia. and Wisconsin. Certain Repre-
sentatives from Alabama Arkansas, Flor
ida, Georgia. Louisiana, Mississippi. North |
Carolina. South Carolina, Tennessee. and
Texas receive cottonseed. The others get |
nothing but vegetable, flower, and grass
seeds. Senators are treated on par with !
the most favored Representatives.
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, fadlsh, |
lettuce and onion seed. and so on, the |
packages being as near equal in weight as |
possible.
OF the beet seed 1164 coo packets are |
purchased. running 6i to the pound and dI-
yided into six varieties. Ten thousand
pounds of cucumber seeds give SenO0O |
packets, I5.0 eco pounds of four varieties OF |
etuce seed are made up into 24S, 200 pack
Its. five varieties of muskmelons furnish
$50 .0O0 packets.
An equal number of packets of water
melon seeds are bought OF onion seed
,6 600 pounds are distributed, which arc di-
,ided into 9. f96. 900 packets and comprise
i've varieties.
There are 2496.000 packets Of radish
seed while 5000 bushels of peas and the
,ame quantity OF beans yield 100000 pack
It's OF each, and the same number of pack
is is obtained from 5000 bushels of sweet
,orn.
There are four varieties OF peas and
leaas and five of corn. Tobacco comes
higher, so only 300 pounds of this seed are
purchased, of five varieties, of which 9l,-
00 packets are made.
Cottonseed to the amount of 725 bushels
-ieldS %. 200 packages, or quarts, and the
s 900 pounds of Kentucky bluegrass, done
p in half-pound packages, furnishes $4,000
ackets. About a million packets of flower
eeds are distributed, comprising many va