26 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Question. Do you leave them on after the rose bugs go 

 away? 



Mr. FuLLEETON. Yes ; all the way through. 



Question. One year I spent three days bagging, and it 

 was so much work I thought it would be better to let the bugs 

 have them. 



Mr. FuLLEETON. You would be no man to bag grapes. 



Mr. Tower. I notice the lecturer spoke of forwarding 

 cauliflower fourteen days by irrigation. I would ask if he 

 had the same success in forwarding other crops ? Have you 

 tried it on sweet corn and potatoes ? 



Mr. FuLLERTON. We have only tried it experimentally. 

 Next year I shall have 5 acres under irrigation. We have 

 tried it on carrots, onions, radishes, lettuce, cabbages, cauli- 

 flower and celery. The effect on celery was tremendous, over 

 three weeks ; on onions, nearly three weeks ; on strawberries it 

 increased the yield nearly three times. I think it would be 

 particularly good on tomatoes. There are a great many crops 

 I haven't tried. This year I shall try the Skinner irrigation 

 system. But of course there is a great difference in people; 

 not all will do well with the same methods. I have planted 

 onions one morning which proved a success, and with the 

 same seed and same soil planted some the next morning, and 

 had no success. 



Question. Do you believe in signs ? 



Mr. FuLLERTON. Why, yes ; out west, if a man pulled a 

 44 gun we always put up both hands. 



Afternoon Session. 



The meeting was called to order at 2 p.m. by Secretary 

 Ellsworth, who presided throughout the session. 



Seceetary Ellsworth. I am pleased to introduce to you 

 Prof. Eugene Davenport, dean of the College of Agriculture 

 of the University of Illinois, and director of the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station. 



