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use in sprinkling that high-priced stuff between rows 3 feet 

 apart, and leaving it to dissolve and disappear. 



Question. How can we tell where and how to get pure 

 seed? 



Mr. FuLLERTON. I am glad you brought that up. We 

 have our experiment stations, testing seeds and analyzing fer- 

 tilizers, and then they publish that No. 16 contained so and 

 so. Well, who is No. IG ? Why isn't it published in every 

 newspaper that Bill Smith sold dodder and called it alfalfa ? 

 If he sold rat poison, it would be. I have been told foxtail is 

 a good thing. Perhaps it is ; but when I buy alfalfa I want 

 alfalfa, and not foxtail. I*once wanted to plant 10 acres of 

 alfalfa, and I got seed from all over the world and from 

 Europe. I had it tested by three separate institutions, and 

 their results tallied wonderfully.. Then I published the re- 

 sults. I said " Bill Smith's alfalfa seed contained not alfalfa, 

 but 9 parts dodder." I was asked if I was not afraid of being 

 sued for libel; but, as I had 30 pounds of that seed left, I 

 wasn't badly scared. That should be done with all seed. Let 

 the world know what Smith's seed really is, and he will make 

 it better, and give you what you order. You want to raise all 

 round-headed cabbage, not some flat and some loose-leafed and 

 some nothing. Let them guarantee everything. It can be 

 done. I have done it ; Burpee did it. The present condition 

 has grown out of the fact that a great many want to get rich 

 about three years sooner than they are entitled to. 



Mr. Thomas Barnard. I would like to inquire if you have 

 a remedy for stump root on cabbage ? 



Mr. FuLLERTON. The only remedy I know of is to stop 

 raising cabbages on that ground, and stop for j^ears. The 

 long-continued raising of any particular thing on any par- 

 ticular soil will fill that soil full of the enemies of that par- 

 ticular plant or vegetable. Whole communities in the south 

 have been put out of condition for potato growing, with in- 

 fected tubers. Our main trouble is lack of rotation. In the 

 south certain sections have been ruined for celery. On Long 

 Island we are planting more cauliflower and leaf crops on our 

 ground, to get rid of the stump root. But you can't always 



