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ditions, the Norfolk Savoy would be a good variety for your 

 late fall or early spring crop, but such varieties .as Long 

 Standing v^ould be better for your summer work. 



Question: Is spinach ever killed back by winter freez- 

 ing? 



Professor Johnson: Very seldom in the Norfolk region. 

 Sometimes severe freezes will check its growth, but a liberal 

 application of commercial fertilizer usually revives the crop 

 within a few days. 



Question: How is spinach sold on the New York mar- 

 ket? 



Professor Johnson : The Norfolk-grown spinach is al- 

 most all sold on commission on the New York market. The 

 Southern Produce Company, a cooperative organization of 

 about four hundred members, selects a list of commission 

 merchants in New York and other cities, with whom it makes 

 contracts to sell spinach and other crops for its members. 

 The association acts as the agent of its members in shipping 

 the materials to these commission merchants. The commis- 

 sion merchants are selected after very careful examination 

 of their business methods and financial responsibility. The 

 association maintains an attorney who looks after the mat- 

 ters of collection and freight rates for its members without 

 expense to the individuals. The commission merchants sell 

 the goods immediately on receipt and make prompt returns. 



Mr. Bonney: At this period we have before us the sub- 

 ject of precooling. Mr. Ramsey does not seem to be present. 

 We have with us a man whom you probably all know or have 

 heard of, a government expert, a man that we always like to 

 hear because he knows what he is talking about. Professor 

 Corbett. 



PRECOOLING. 



L. C. Corbett, Washington, D. C. 



It may be well in the outset to say something about what 

 precooling really is and what the object of precooling work is. 



