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GOOD SEED. 



potatoes, if as well preserved and in as good condition, were just as 

 good as Maine seed potatoes. 



A Member: I think there is a difference in keeping potatoes or 

 raising our own seed. Principally we spray for two reasons, for 

 long life and for the blight. I don't think myself that a mature 

 potato is as good as a green potato for seed. 



Mr. Fullerton: I would hate to plant a green one. I haven't 

 time. If you haven't maturity, you are likely to get nothing from it. 



Mr. Aldrich: We had people who bought their seed in Maine, 

 came down, and delivered them. We saw those potatoes planted. 

 We know that they are Maine seed. I bought two carloads in Maine 

 and saw them loaded. I know that invariably we buy lots of Maine 

 seed, and as a rule it does better than our own. Sometimes our own 

 will do better. Of late years it has been a little more of a lottery in 

 getting Maine seed than it used to be. We don't stand quite so good 

 a show of getting good stock now as several years ago. I grow cab- 

 bage seed. I know something about how it is managed down on 

 Long Island. I know that the seedsman I grow for selected stock 

 seed out of my field. Out of five acres he bought about one hundred 

 heads. That stock seed was kept separate. I raised that stock 

 seed, and that was what he used. When it comes to roguing, he 

 does it. I don't. If there is anything that doesn't suit, he cuts it 

 off. I have nothing to say about it. That is the way cabbage is 

 grown on Long Island. The seedsman goes through and looks over 

 the field, and picks out a few heads that just suit him. That is what 

 we call stock seed. There is another item, — the varieties of Early 

 Wakefield. 



Professor Watts: There is no ciuestion about there being 

 different types of Jersey Wakefield. 



Mr. Aldrich: A great many times cabbage is set late for seed, 

 and if the seed is dry, it won't head. It will not form hard heads. 

 Of course, if they start out true to name, they don't open up. 

 Whether that deteriorates cabbage or not, I don't know. 



Professor Watts: I didn't want anyone to get the idea I 

 was knocking at Long Island. It is simply a lack of care. If you 

 sow a pound of cabbage seed and it does not come true to type, there 

 has been poor breeding somewhere. 



