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ever saw. Some of them would weigh one pouud. They were thick. 

 I don't believe in thinning out onions too mucli, because they will 

 push each other out of the ground. The ripest ones will come out of 

 the ground lirst, and they will go to market first; and then the 

 others will come in later, when you need them. My idea of telling 

 you this is, that I think that the parsnips made a fertilizer that 

 suited the onions. I hear a great deal about sowing clover ; I sup- 

 pose it is on the same principle, the rot goes into the ground and 

 forms a fertilizer. 



Mr. James Draper. I don't know as you want to hear from me. 

 I don't know anything about vegetables ; my friend, Mr. Hartshorn, 

 here, can tell you a great deal more in that line than I can. How- 

 ever, I will take one moment. I don't think we want to encourage 

 those onions of our friend O'Connell, that will weigh a pound. 

 When we commence to work the scaling down of size, and scaling 

 up of quality, 1 remember the indignation of our friend Goodwin, 

 who hired a truckman to bring up a good load of enormous squashes, 

 that all came from one vine. He expected enough money in prizes 

 to pay the expense of bringing them, and he was very much pro- 

 voked because I did not award them the prize. Also, our Mr. Pond, 

 who brought in some spinach, one plant of which was large enough 

 to fill a bushel basket, and he was very much surprised to think that 

 we did not encourage that enormous growth. I believe that is one 

 of the best things this Society has been doing, the scaling down size 

 and requiring an exceptionally fine quality. 



Mr. a. E. Hartshorn. 3Ir. President, — In regard to cabbage, if I 

 could see any signs of disease, I would watch the plant and treat it 

 with kerosene emulsion ; that is the best remedy that I know of for 

 cabbage. 



Question. Kerosene emulsion with milk? 



No ; that I spoke of was mixed with water and sprayed onto the 

 plant. That will almost always fix the green worms. 



I would like to ask this brother who had trouble with club-foot, 

 if he grew the cabbages two years successively on the same ground? 



Mr. O'Connell. Yes, I did, and I had trouble with plants that 

 grew on new ground. They grew club-footed during the season. 



Did you raise your plants or did you buy them? 



I bought some, and I raised some. I found both affected. 



Mr. O'Connell. About the maggot in the onion. I always find 

 they come up very good in the beginning, but when they are about 

 five or six inches tall, the trouble begins. Now this is a disease that 

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