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right at home. Mr. Chandler is the king of squash growers in 

 Minnesota, and I would like to ask him about keeping the seed 

 pure and improving it. 



Mr. Elliot: I do not think Brother Allyn needs to look very- 

 far for the modern squash. I had a talk with Mr. Chandler 

 after he had been down and engaged all the squashes Mr. 

 Allyn had, and he said to me that they were the finest 

 squashes he had seen this year, and gave me the average 

 weight of the squashes, which, I think, was somewhere in the 

 neighborhood of fifteen pounds apiece, which is an extremelj' 

 heavy weight for squashes of that variety. I think Mr. Allyn 

 has just as good seed as there is in Minnesota. 



Mr. Allyn: I sent for the first seed to Mr. Gregory o 

 Marblehead, Massachusetts, and the pure Hubbard squash did 

 not weigh over five pounds apiece. I have been trying to 

 enlarge my squashes, and I think I made a mistake; I think 

 they are too large for profitable shipping. What we want is to 

 keep them in a commercial condition and demand good prices. 

 We might as well put our land into squash growing, and make 

 more money than we can any other way. We got seventeen 

 dollars a ton for our squashes. It was a remarkable price. 



