No. 6. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 701 



MR. OHUBBUCK: In a j^ood com .year we j;(,'t fift^y bushels of 

 slielled eoni to the acre. Tliere was a question handed in that 

 Prof. Surface Avas requested (o answer. 



Tlu" SK('Iil^:TAKY: The question is: "Will J'rof. Surface tell us 

 something about spraying potatoes for bligiit? Also the cause of 

 blight?" Professor Surface is not here. Perhaps some other gen- 

 tleman will tell us. 



MR. FENSTEI\rAKP:R: I think Mr. Schwarz can satisfactorily 

 answer that question. 



MR. SCHWARZ: I spray all my potatoes and never have any 

 blight, but I have been traveling with a doctor of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, as a lecturer on potato culture, and I am convinced 

 that by spraying with Bordeaux mixture it will be prevented except 

 it is in a very wet season. It is claimed that it starts from the 

 leaf and the spores are washed from the leaf into the ground and 

 there produces the rot of the potato. I am entirely clear from 

 it and I always spray my potatoes witli Bordeaux mixture. 



The CHAIRMAN: We are now up to the closing remarks. Is 

 there any one present who has anything to say before we adjourn? 



The SECRETARY: I feel that I am under an obligation of grati- 

 tude to those who have responded so promptly, when asked, to take 

 part in the program. I am gratified with the fact that we have 

 gone through with the entire program. There is nothing left un- 

 finished. I shall go away from this meeting much refreshed and 

 with the thought that it was good for me to be here. 



MR. HERR: I have been watching the work of the State Board 

 of Agriculture for a good many years and when the Department of 

 Agriculture was created, the supposition seemed to be conveyed that 

 the Board was at the end of its work and its services would not be 

 of much value. But the longer we are in it the more interested 

 we seem to become and I am very much gratified with even 

 the little recognition the Board receives from the administration 

 and from the Legislature, as well as gratified that there are so 

 mau}^ members who stick to it, paj' their own expenses, attend its 

 meetings andtake an active interest. There is no other institu- 

 tion, no other body in the State, to my mind, that makes the 

 sacrifice, gratuitously, to do the work that is done by the Slate 

 Board of Agriculture, and they are doing a great w'ork, especially 

 in institute work and in co-operation with the Department of Agri- 

 culture and, it seems to me, they do not get proper credit for the 

 work they do. I think they ought to be credited with more than 



