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this way, then we water them about once in ten days, generally give them 

 four or five waterings through the season, and we raise as high as 200 

 bushels to the acre." Then he quit. Then I got up. I said, '.'Now, gen- 

 tlemen, I thought that was just about the way. Now, I will tell you how 

 to raise potatoes. This gentleman commences just right. He hauls out 

 ten or twelve loads of manure to the acre in the fall and plows it in 

 eight inches deep. That is just right. Leave it rough till spring, and from 

 that time on he is radically wrong. In the spring of the year, as soon as 

 the ground gets dry enough, take your disc and disc it crosswise, then har- 

 row lengthwise, and work it over until it is perfectly fine and nice, but 

 don't plow the furrows with your mold board plow. Take a shovel plow 

 and if it is a long one, which mine is — I have one 14 inches long and 14 

 inches wide at the top — you take a gunny sack and roll it up until it is 

 three inches wide and wrap that around the plow six inches from the 

 point, put a piece of wire once around it and twist it good and tight and 

 keep it there, and bring the wire up around the sandboard of the plow so 

 it will not slip down and slip up, because the plow is wider, then 

 run your furrows two and a half feet apart, six inches deep, then in place 

 of cutting your potatoes through and making two sets of it, cut the nose 

 end off, where so many eyes are, and cut them so you will have two eyes 

 on a set, and drop your potatoes in the ground two inches apart in the 

 way that the e3'e will be down." One man said, "Hold on. please; tell 

 us the reason for putting the eyQ down." I said. "I suppose you never 

 knew anything to come up out of the ground until it took root, and if 

 you put the eye up the roots have to go clear around that potato and 

 into the ground. If the eye is down it will take root immediately and 

 then the sprout comes right up and they will come up several days quicker 

 that way." They were satisfied. "Then when you get them all planted 

 in this wise take your leveler and level the ground off nice, and just as 

 soon as ever the first leaves appear starting out of the ground take your 

 harrow, with a bo}'' and a span of horses, and harrow them lengthwise, 

 and when you get through at the other corner leave the harrow there and 

 in a week's time set the boy on again and harrow it crosswise." 



MR. CHILCOTT: Mr. Chairman, I desire to interrupt the speaker 

 on account of a peculiar condition here that the Executive Committee is 

 in. It offers a resolution, and it cannot proceed with its other work until 

 it knows whether this resolution will receiA^e the sanction of this Congress. 

 If it does then the}^ can proceed with their work, and if it does not they 

 are at a standstill, so I am going to ask the present speaker to allow me 

 to introduce a resolution which will take but a moment. I am very sorry 

 to have to interrupt the speaker in this way. Do I get recognition from 

 the Chair for the reporting of this resolution? 



CHAIRMAN M'CABE: Go ahead. 



PROF. CHILCOTT: This resolution originated in the Executive Com- 

 mittee, was reported to the Committee on Resolutions and has been ap- 

 proved by that committee. 



