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address, then told how much we paid for it, the day we purchased it, 

 and what happened. I think it was as much as thirty-six hours 

 after that was published before I had the first libel suit started. The 

 head of my corporation called me, and asked what I was going to do 

 about it. I told him, "Nothing." He said, "You had better be 

 mighty careful." I said, "This is the finest advertising in the world. 

 The best thing for the farmer is for these fellows to sue me for libel." 

 A libel is telling something that isn't true, or injuring somebody's 

 business when he hasn't done anything to warrant it. We were never 

 sued. 



I believe the Professor is right. The Vegetable Growers' Asso- 

 ciation is going to do a whole lot if it is going to take up good seed 

 work. I know of a man who buys two varieties of potatoes, Irish 

 Cobbler and Green Mountain, and he gets out one of the most beauti- 

 ful catalogues I ever saw of potatoes, in which he listed last year 

 forty-seven varieties. His prices were $1.35 a bushel to $7.00. It 

 would pay to raise your own potatoes. I don't think any man can 

 afford to let next year go by without raising his own seed. Wherever 

 a person raises his own seed, the next year the crop has been double, 

 treble, ten times as great and one hundred times as good. It is then 

 naturalized in your own climate. I do not believe that the Cali- 

 fornia seed is going to hold up. It isn't the place to grow seed of cold 

 country vegetables. It is entirely too tropical. 



Mr. Work: I would like to ask again how many are growing 

 their own seed of anything.^ Ten. 



A Member: We select the best bulbs of onions, twenty-five 

 bushels out of about a thousand, and plant them, the same as potatoes. 

 That is the seed we use. 



President White: I grow my own seed corn. 



Professor Watts : How do you do it? 



President White: The plan I have is hill selection, as far as 

 possible. 



Mr. Hunter: I grow my own tomato seed. I select my hills, 

 also select my tomatoes from the hills. It pays. I save my sweet 

 corn seed, and that pays. 



Mr. Waid: I grow seed for lettuce in the greenhouse. Has 

 Professor Watts known of holding over an individual plant by taking 

 cuttings from it? 



