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gentleman, after I got through telling about this, said, "Do you harrow 

 the potatoes after they are dug?" "Why, certainly," I said. "We have 

 a machine in our country where we raise potatoes and have them come 

 along with the wagon and they shovel them out with the scoop shovel into 

 a bin and a boy turns it and the large potatoes drop in one sack and the 

 small ones in the other. That is the way we harrow them after they are 

 dug." You will find if you plant your potatoes in this wise they won't 

 be lumpy. If you water them after they are set they will have some lumps. 

 Now that is the way to raise potatoes. 



Now then, there Jire lots of people that will ask lots of questions after 

 this meeting is over. When you go home* they will want to know many 

 things. Many people will come to me. I have had them here. I scarcely 

 had time to go and eat my lunch after the first meeting, and I am willing 

 to go without a meal in order to tell people what I know about dry farm- 

 ing in all its parts, but wherever I go they have told me, "Why don't 

 you publish a book?" I did so, and I have a book which can be bought 

 at the Deseret Book Store. Many people say, "You ought to charge a dol- 

 lar for that book." I said, "No, we want the people to know and two bits 

 is all we ask for it." You can get it for that, for two bits, which, if I 

 knew just one-half as much as I tell the people in that when I first com- 

 me^nced it would have saved me several thousands of dollars in loss of 

 my crops. You can go home, if you take one of these books, put it in your 

 bookcase, and when you want to raise wheat, oats, barley, potatoes or 

 trees for fire wood. Every farmer, and dry farmers especially, ought to 

 have one corner in his farm in trees, say two or three acres, and in a few 

 years you will have plenty of timber to make your fire wood without 

 suffering from the coal famine like we did a year ago. I have plenty of 

 wood on my farm today that I can commence taking now. Say where 

 there are three or four trees growing up I can take two of them and leave 

 the rest, and that way I will have plenty for years for fire wood, and the 

 next year go out and get another one and have plenty of wood for an- 

 other year, etc. If you will plant black elders you will find when they 

 get big enough for fire wood just cut every other tree, and after they 

 get big enough to make a stick of stove-wood cut them off and then they 

 will spread out and grow ten feet high, and in three Or four years they 

 will make three or four times the timber, and you will have all of the 

 fire wood you want. It is a hardy wood, and makes a good singletree 

 or double tree, and fence posts, a good post, and it lasts well in the 

 ground, and you will have plenty of fire wood and fence posts right at 

 home without having to send off and buy posts at twenty or twenty-five 

 cents apiece. Just black elders. Remember that. Plant them deep. When 

 you plant them out dig the holes big enough and deep enough until you 

 have moisture, and work that ground' over nicely and plant them and 

 then you can let them go and they will do all right. 



MR. HOLDAWAY, of Utah: What process do you take your seeds 

 through to get them to germinate — the black elders? 



