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Mr. Bearclsley. It probably was the Excelsior. I want to 

 say that I take a little exception to Mr. Sampson's paper on 

 tomatoes. He says he transplants about three inches apart. 

 That is all well enough in a greenhouse, if you have lots of 

 room. We, as gardeners, make a bed of fine manure and on 

 that place our hotbed. Some use quart fruit boxes to set their 

 plants in. When I use them, I set them right on this fine man- 

 ure, and then our tomato stalks get very heavy and stocky. In 

 that way it makes them about four inches apart each way; and 

 then we take them up and slip the dirt out of the boxes and set 

 that lump of dirt right in the ground; that is. we have one 

 tomato plant in a box. I find that a very successful plan. I 

 hate to see Mr. Sampson go back on the Acme tomato as bad 

 as he does, because that is our standard tomato. We have to 

 grow a tomato for color. We take a light tomato on the mar- 

 ket, and, no matter how pretty it is, we cannot sell it. The 

 Acme has just the color that will sell it. I raise the Acme 

 tomato, and I have no trouble with the rot. 



Mr. Pearce: We are very much interested in tomatoes 

 where I live. The trouble wdth the Acme is they come too 

 late. There may be something in the way the Acme is handled, 

 but, as a rule, the early fruit has rotted and continued to rot 

 right along; and I have discarded them. 



Col. Stevens: For the last four or five years I have attended 

 the market place pretty panctually, aad I have never seen a 

 rotten one. 



Mr. Harris: If seed is kept properly, it will grow ten years 

 after, anyway. I find, however, it is not a safe rule to follow, 

 because it takes a certain length of time to establish a new 

 variety and get it fixed as a permanent thing. 



Mr, Beardsley: Yesterday afternoon in sitting here we 

 heard about apple trees on paper. We have a great many 

 seedsmen who sell seeds on paper. I think it is a very simple 

 matter for a man who has a good tomato to pick out his choice 

 tomatoes and take out the seed, and it is a very simple matter 

 to wash those seeds out, and I think it is the w^ay to keep our 

 seeds pure. We have got lots of paper seedsmen. 



Mr. Brackett: What kind of tomatoes are they using at the 

 canning establishment at La Crosse V 



Mr. Harris: Livingston's Perfection. 



