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dom less than that. The ordinary prices start in at about $1.50, 

 and run quite a while at $1.50 a dozen, but we haven't this year 

 sold any celery, and we didn't last year, at less than $1.20 a 

 dozen. 



A Member. Did I understand you to say that you couldn't 

 grow the Golden Self-Blanching celery? 



Mr. Garrahan. No, it doesn't pay. They can raise it back 

 in the country further — up on the hills where there is better 

 drainage. I've known farmers back in the country to have 

 a few plants in their garden, and they did well, but we are 

 in the valley, and it doesn't pay. We find it will blight and 

 heartrot. 



A Member. Did you ever try any sulphur sprays of any 

 kind? 



Mr. Garrahan. No, not on celery. 



A Member. Do you have the commercial onion sets? 



Mr. Garrahan. We don't grow them in our section. We 

 have had so much trouble with the commercial sets. The com- 

 mercial sets are raised from the little yellow Strasburg. It 

 doesn't make a big onion, and they usually use an inferior grade 

 of seed, but our yield from sets will run on an average of about 

 400 bushels to an acre, but with the late onions we consider 600 

 bushels a fairly good crop. We have had it run over that and 

 we have had it run less. This year our late onions run about 

 500 bushels. 



A Member. How much spraying are you doing on tomatoes? 



Mr. Garrahan. Not any. Some one asked me a while ago 

 about a sulphur spray. I tried that one year on tomatoes, — 

 Sulphurcite, I think it was called, — but it must have been too 

 strong as it knocked off all the blossoms. Possibly we had it 

 too strong, but we w^ent according to the formula given by the 

 manufacturer. 



A Member. Do you have any particular mode of setting 

 tomatoes? 



Mr. Garrahan. Practically the same as setting cabbage. 

 We cut them out with a butcher's knife with as much dirt as 

 possible retained on the root. Those plants are grown in flats 

 about 4 inches apart, say for two weeks before we want to plant 



