No. 4.] MODERN POTATO CULTURE. 75 



from Maine for planting we finally got seed of our own 

 growing, only to find a falling off of from twenty-five to 

 forty bushels per aere. 



Professor Woods. How are your potatoes kept? 



Professor Brooks. Kept in a cellar, at a fairly low tem- 

 perature. It may be our potatoes are all right, and it 

 may well be that if we* planted later, especially for seed, we 

 could get as good results as } r ou ; but it looks to me as 

 though it was quite doubtful whether it would pay. It 

 seems as though it may generally be better for us to take 

 our seed from Maine. I believe the greater cost of the seed 

 is much more than paid for by the superior value of the 

 crop, both because we have more, and because it is a little 

 earlier, which is of considerable value to us here. 



Ex-Governor Hoard. I think there is a great deal in 

 this question of the transfer of seed. Around Greeley, Col- 

 orado, is one of the greatest potato-growing sections of the 

 United States. They grow enormous quantities of them, 

 and they find there it is very much to their benefit to send 

 up into what is known as the potato section of the sandy 

 belt of Wisconsin for seed, and carloads of potatoes go into 

 Colorado from Wisconsin for seed alone. 



Professor Woods. Several of the experiment stations in 

 the country, in co-operation with the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture , are considering the effect of climate on 

 the potato. I would like to say that in Virginia they have 

 been experimenting with home-grown seed, especially planted 

 for seed ; and I think when we get short in Maine we could 

 very well go down to Virginia and buy seed, because they 

 are getting so much better results from the home-grown seed 

 there, growing it for seed and taking care of it. I am of the 

 opinion that proper growth and care of the seed are of greater 

 importance than latitude. 



Afternoon Session. 

 The meeting was called to order at 2 o'clock, by First Vice- 

 President Sessions, who said : The lecture this afternoon is 

 of peculiar interest in many ways. The title of it is con- 

 fined to the shade-tree problem, one of the greatest problems 



