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doubtedly a seedling of the Early Ohio, it has white and pink 

 eyes, a very good quality. 



Mr. Keyser: Of late potatoes, what variety? 



Mr. Cass: I have a second varietj^ the Eureka, an excellent 

 quality. I had intended to have brought up a sample of each 

 of them. 



Mr. C. S. Harrison: Don't you find you get better results 

 in getting seeds from the north? 



Mr. Cass: I think every man should secure northern grown 

 seed from the Red River country; it will pay him to buy it even 

 if he has his own seeds free. We then get a cleaner seed and 

 a change in climate seems to produce better results. I have 

 planted northern grown seed myself this spring. I sent to 

 Shennendoah, Iowa, to Fields and I got two and a half bushels 

 of these White Early Ohios northern grown seed, which cost 

 me $6.00 laid down here, express and all, and I thought I was 

 well paid for the expenditure of the money. 



Mr. Harrison: I got a barrel from northern Wisconsin and 

 got 300 bushels on a half acre of ground. 



Mr. Williams: How about your scab treatment? 



Mr. Cass: I don't know as it is a new plan but I have adopted 

 it. If a potato is badly diseased I throw it out. If a man is 

 short of seed and only a very little scab on that, he can use that by 

 using the sulphur treatment, or the corrosive-sublimate treat- 

 ment. Dissolve it in hot water and put in about 15 gallons of 

 cold water and then put your potatoes in that from 40 to 90 

 minutes. I cut my potatoes, and when I get ready to plant 

 them I spray them with water just to make them moist and use a 

 pound of flour sulphur to a barrel of potatoes after they are 

 cut. The sulphur adheres to the surface of the potato and the 

 results I have had from that treatment has been very satis- 

 factory. 



Member: Would you recommend sending for the northern 

 grown seed each year. I think the seed should be changed 

 once in four or five years? 



Mr. Cass: I don't believe it would be a good- plan for a man 

 unless he could get it very conveniently to send every year for 



