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Mr. Taylor: How do yoti protect them from frost in shipping'? 



Mr. Chandler: We put a stove in the car* We pvit a false lining 

 in the car and that gives a dead air space all around the car, and 

 then we use a stove in the car such as we use in a potato car, and 

 burn wood. We had a verj^ favorable tiine going down and hardly 

 struck any zero weather. 



Mr. Wedge: There is no difficulty about shipping; that is of small 

 importance. This qviestion of storing and holding until winter and 

 spring is an entirely different matter from getting them to market 

 from the field withxaut any question of storage or after treatment, 

 and so, in considering the high price which Mr. Chandler gets for 

 his squash, we ought not to consider that they are worth that 

 amount in the field. I may not be right, but I am under the impres- 

 sion they sold for $10 to $12 this fall. 



Mr. Chandler: I consider that squash at $10 per ton in the fall of 

 the year are as good a crop as can be raised, if there is a ready mar- 

 ket in the fall of the year. A year ago last fall we had an active 

 market in Chicago, and I presume there was from thirty-five to fifty 

 carloads shipped out of this market. 



Mrs. Kennedy: What fertilizer do you use? 



Mr. Chandler: Barnyard manure, well rotted. Put two shovel- 

 fuls in the hill and mix it well. I put out from tliree to five seeds in 

 a hill and thin them out to two, after the bugs get through with 

 thein. I plant them eight feet apart. We never use any treatment 

 to prevent bugs. We have been troubled with gophers more than 

 with bugs. We have started sometimes and put in three or four 

 acres at one time. We must put them in at once, just as soon as 

 we can get them in, for if the gophers find out we are planting 

 squash they follow right up and take them out of the hill. You 

 want to get them in before thej^ know what you are doing. 

 (Laughter.) 



Prof. Green: On this subject of gophers — if you take bisulpliate 

 of copper, put some on a cloth and stick it in the gopher holes and 

 cover them up, it is effective and will kill them. It is the best 

 remedy I ever used. I have tried poisoning, and it never worked 

 at all. 



VEGETABLES. 



GEO. JEIIU, HASTINGS 

 I will endeavor to give a sketch of my observations the past 

 season. The early spring was verj- unfavorable on account of the 

 cold weather, and everything was about three weeks late. Potatoes 

 were a very poor crop on account of the dry weather. Melons were 

 a failure. There were a great many onions put in, but the crop was 

 poor, some planters not getting any. Early cabbage was a fair 

 crop, but out of 200,000 planted about 50,000 were marketed and those 

 very poor; the cause of failure was the drj'^ weather. Some planters 

 lost all by worms; another cause of failure was that we could not 

 plant early enough, the ground being so dry. I had a field of 15,000, 

 in which there were 2,000 of Child's Bismarck, which made ver}- fine. 



