92 Vermont Agbicultukal Repokt 



value of northern grown seed,, especially of potatoes. Maine is 

 shipping thousands of bushels south and west each year for this 

 purpose. We predict a very considerable increase in this demand 

 within a few years, especially as the importance of disease re- 

 sistance is recognized as a factor in seed selection. It will, we 

 believe, be found by experience that the highest degree of dis- 

 ease resistance will be secured only by selection among varieties 

 with attention to maintaining vigorous strains and by careful at- 

 tention to cultural conditions under the most favorable of north- 

 ern climates. Vermont conditions both of climate and culture 

 are unexcelled for such purpose. Disease resistance also seems 

 a characteristic of certain of the recently originated strains and 

 is apparently bound to decline with age. We would, therefore, 

 advise potato growers and seed dealers to follow closely the de- 

 velopments as to the relative disease resistance of the newer vari- 

 eties and prepare to improve the opportunity to revive potato 

 culture in Vermont along these lines. 



