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The President : That does not faU off ? 



Mr. Movie : No, it sta3'S right on the leaves. I think you can 

 get one of those guns for thirty-five cents. You can go over quite 

 a large acreage. 



Mr. Benjamin: Can cabbage be successfully pitted? I know a 

 market gardener who pitted several tons, and he lost them all. 



Mr. Moyle : It is not safe as a rule, and for that reason they 

 use a storage house. Several growers have gone to work and 

 pitted on a large scale, and sometimes the result was that all 

 their cabbage rotted. Occasionally it goes through all right, 

 and they realize handsomely, but as a rule it is not satisfactory 

 to pit. 



The President : The storage is on shelves. 



Mr. Moyle : Yes, they put them on shelves. 



Mr. Benjamin: Do you store them and market them later? 



Mr. Moyle : They have two kinds, the green and the white 

 head, and one is cut immediately and marketed. At the pres- 

 ent time they are paying $8.50 for green and $7.50 for white. 

 After they are stored the outside leaves wilt and dry up, but 

 the inner side is left hard. 



Mr. Kellogg: Is this machine they use for planting cabbage 

 made especially for that purpose? 



Mr. Moyle : It is made especially for cabbage. 



Mr. Kellogg: Is it not almost the same thing as the straw- 

 berry planter? 



Mr. Moyle: Well, no, it is somewhat different. 



Mr. Kellogg: In using the tobacco planter for planting 

 strawberries we found that the pressure was not sufficient to 

 hold the strawberries in place, and we had to go along and set 

 the plants in firmer. We have used them a good deal. 



The President: Are you using them now, Mr. Kellogg? 



Mr. Kellogg: No sir, we are using a spade. 



Unused Portions of the Farm. — Nearly every farm has at 

 least a few acres which are of little value for growing agricultural 

 crops. This land should be set aside for a woodlot and devoted to 

 the production of fuel, fence posts and timber for farm uses. 



