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GOOD SEED. 



A Member: They would be formed in the center of the plant 

 and further from other hills. 



A Member: Do you know anything about California celery 

 seed? I have never had any experience with it that I know of. 



Professor Watts: I think it is generally conceded that the 

 French grown Self -blanching is superior. With the green varieties, 

 California is growing good seed. But a large part of the so-called 

 California seed is purchased through Philadelphia houses. 



Professor Watts: I would like to inquire how many produce 

 their own seed of anything. 



Mr. Fullerton: We have produced practically every seed we 

 have grown, and that is more than all the rest of you put together 

 have grown, with one exception, cauliflower. The only reason we 

 haA^en't grown that is that our neighbors say it cannot be grown. 

 I believe we can grow it as well as cabbage. The trouble is to keep 

 it. The average man won't take the pains necessary to keep it. 

 If you could only throw it out in a corner somewhere, leave it till 

 next year, and pick the seed, many would grow their own seed. We 

 have never had any trouble growing seed at all, and have always 

 found much better results when we have grown our own seed. I think 

 I will drop in and help you out. Only I am inclined to mention 

 names. I carry no advertising, I haven't a political job, and I can 

 talk out! When we started on the experimental station, it was the 

 object to show how much Long Island could grow, how many varieties. 

 Consequently, we planted things that had never been grown in this 

 country, that people thought wouldn't grow. They all grew. We 

 planted three hundred eighty varieties, and harvested three hundred 

 eighty crops. We planted alfalfa. I bought seed from everybody 

 and paid all sorts of prices for it. Some came up, some didn't. 

 Some was clover, some was ragweed, some was something else. 

 I imported pretty nearly every weed that is known and paid big 

 money for it. Then I bought seed from all those fellows again and 

 from some other fellows. We tested them out, had them tested at 

 Ithaca, Geneva, and Washington. I published a report in full after 

 having written to these seedsmen, saying, "You sold us on such a 

 date alfalfa seed. We purchased from you several different kinds 

 of weeds. What have you to say.^^ — because we are going to publish 

 a full report." Some answered the letter, some didn't. We pub- 

 lished a report. We headed it with the name of the firm, and full 



