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Mr. Fullerton: You weren't talking territory. You were 

 talking men's methods of roguing. They are liable not to rogue 

 carefully. 



Professor Watts : When you sift this down, the whole question 

 is — we must have good seed to make good crops. I wish we could buy 

 all our seed from seedsmen and always get it good. I believe the 

 seedsmen are doing the best they can, most of them. 



Mr. Work: I think it is clear in our minds that we do have 

 difficulty in getting good seed. Ever since this New York State 

 Vegetable Growers' Association was organized, it has been working 

 first along educational lines; but all the while it has been trying to 

 inaugurate certain lines of work that will be of definite, tangible, 

 dollars-and-cents value to its members. We have done two or three 

 small things, that perhaps have been of a little value. This seed 

 question has been attracting a great deal of attention. A great 

 many are of the opinion that we can work out some kind of an ar-. 

 rangement so that this Association will be of definite value in getting 

 hold of good seeds. There are some members that are in a position 

 to get good cabbage seed for us, there are others who are able to get 

 good onion seed, or good tomato seed. Can't we work out some 

 scheme by which that can be done.f^ Tomorrow afternoon is our 

 business afternoon, and that will be the time at which the whole 

 work of the Association will be up for discussion. Those that aren't 

 familiar with the work will have an opportunity to find out what 

 the past work has been, and the ideals of the future for the Associa- 

 tion. I hope you will keep this good seed question in your mind. 

 Be ready with your ideas. 



As to varieties of seed potatoes out of one lot. I have handled 

 a good many thousand bushels of seed potatoes. One reason I gave 

 up was that I could not compete and do an honest business. I 

 couldn't sell. I couldn't get the orders, for other men were under- 

 selling me. One potato seed house bought from a carload of potatoes 

 I got in Michigan. They were a Rose potato, and very nice stock. 

 I sold the firm sixty -five barrels of potatoes. They were put up in 

 the car, and he sent his man to see to the shipping. My man told me 

 there were nine different varieties that went out of the sixty -five 

 barrels. 



President White: We want the seed, and we want to go at it 

 right to get it. 



