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will make 4 sets and will give you four plants. If you have 1,000 

 you Avill have 4,000 hills. By leaving a little space between every 

 four there will be less liability of mixing when digging. Cultivate 

 and spray the crop as you have done before and plan to dig it by 

 hand, throwing the four hills from each individual together so that 

 it will make a thousand hills. Now, carefully go over each and 

 throw out all the poor hills. Put all the good ones into individual 

 bags or weigh them in the field, probably 10 will be found to pro- 

 duce a heavier yield than any others. These should be kept by 

 themselves and all of the crop planted in a row, so that we have 10 

 rows, each planted with the progeny of one individual. If they 

 continue to yield well these can be saved, but probably one or two 

 may lose vigor. They will need be dropped. Those which hold up can 

 be kept and put into a multiplying plot until enough can be secured 

 for seed. If this be kept up each year one will increase the pro- 

 ductive power of his strain of potatoes. It has been shoAvn by 

 this means that the yield can be increased considerably. There is 

 one difficulty which immediately comes in in regard to the fruit 

 grower turning potato grower. He probably intends to be a fruit 

 grower and is merely using potatoes as a stop-gap for a little while, 

 and therefore, it does not appeal to him to go ahead and reach the 

 summit of the potato-growing profession, and it may not appear to 

 be worth while to undertake such a piece of work as this outlined. 

 This is one of the difficulties of the situation and one of the reasons 

 why I feel that I cannot look after more than one or two things 

 and need to contract rather than spread myself out over more. 

 To be a success all one needs is to be able to grow one variety of one 

 crop better than anybody else. 



There is one other problem, that is the securing of a good saw 

 for pruning. We have had considerable difficulty but think we have 

 a good tool now in the No. 20 Disston Pruning Saw. It is a modified 

 No. 7 Ship Carpenter's Saw, which this firm has kindly changed at 

 the suggestion of myself and others. We think it is a good tool. 

 At the point it is but an inch wide, the back is holloAved ; it is 26 

 inches long and has the largest handle ever put on a saw, so that 

 a man can use it with his mitten on his hand. 



CO-OPERATION IN MARKETING APPLES 



BY HON. S. L. LUPTON, Winchester, Ta. 



Your president has invited me to talk to you this afternoon on 

 "Co-operation in Marketing Apples," and, as on day before yester- 

 day, I think I will ask to modify the program and call my talk, 

 "Co-operation in Orcharding." Co-operation extends all through 

 the business of orcharding, not only in the marketing of the fruit 

 but in the growing of the orchard as well. I do not know just 



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