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satisfied that on the most of my soil it wouldn't give the best results. 

 I know that with a liberal supply of stable manure I seldom fail to 

 get a satisfactory crop. 



Mr. Frank J. Kinney. Mr. Chairman., — I think Mr. Greenwood is 

 getting old, the same as myself; that is a very broad statement he 

 made. The older I get I believe the less I know. When I first be- 

 gan to talk before this Association I thought I knew something about 

 growing vegetables, but now that I have heard so much, I begin to 

 think that I don't know anything and never shall. Just as I think I 

 have learned something about the working of the ground some one 

 else steps in with his new ideas and entirely overturns mine. 



I don't think I can add anything to the paper that you have heard 

 and the remarks that have been made, unless it is that five years ago 

 the fact appeared that it was a great deal cheaper to use special fer- 

 tilizers than to pay the enormous prices which we had to pay for 

 stable manure. Since we began on fertilizers we have had the ad- 

 vantage ; I can better afford to haul from the city at Si. 50 a load the 

 same as I used to pay four and five dollars a load for. It makes a vast 

 difference, and I am a little afraid that it will affect my neighbor on 

 the right a good deal, as well as myself. I don't do it because I 

 think it is better myself, but because I think it is cheaper. We must 

 produce goods so that we can sell them cheaper, and still we must 

 keep our quality up. There are lines of goods that we cannot sell 

 in the winter, lettuce and other vegetables that are not eaten because 

 people think that they cannot afford to buy them. Now we have got 

 to learn to produce them cheaper. There is no doubt but what we 

 can save a large per cent, on help if we are judicious. We can get 

 better help. The help question has been the greatest drawback. I 

 have often had my attention called to the fact that so very few have 

 been brought up in the business. By the time that you have got a 

 man so that he is good for anything, somebody else wants him and 

 will pay him better. Now we have learned that we can take some 

 classes of foreign help that will learn better and that will do better 

 work than the American help that we have been fishing for. All we 

 have got to do is to keep our eyes open. I would rather have one 

 good Swede that will work at a good price, than to have any Ameri- 

 can man I ever saw. 



Mr. David Fiske, of Grafton. Thank you, Mr. President! I 

 don't think I can enlighten this company any in regard to raising 

 vegetables. The more I do the less I know. I believe that my 

 experience has generally agreed with the essayist as far as I know. 



