Professor Butz asks, " Should farmers raise their own vegetable seeds ? " and answers the question in the negative. "The question in its scientific aspect presents itself in the following form : Are seeds which have matured under high cultivation (as on our best seed Farms) better for our less enriched farm soils than seeds which have matured on this poorer soil ? The answer must be found in a comparison of results regarding earliness, productiveness, vigor and quality of the products. The conditions at the station were very favorable to the work, and last year seeds were gathered from the best of those vegetables that seeded. The ground in which they grew is not a rich garden soil, but only an ordinary farm soil. These seeds were planted this year along with seeds of the same varieties from the seed houses of Landreth, Dreer, Thorburn and others." The results are as follows, the plants tested being numerous varieties of beans, lettuce, peas, radishes and tomatoes: "In the majority of cases the earlier marketable products were obtained from the purchased seeds. The greater yield, with but few exceptions, was obtained from purchased seeds. Lettuce from purchased seed produced heads that did not "shoot up " to flower as early as the plants from station seed.

Radishes from purchased seeds were larger, more tender and more uniform than those from station seeds. On the whole, the results are strongly in favor of seeds from good soil, however rich that may be".

Goff on Cutting Potatoes.

Potatoes in Wisconsin.

Kinney on Cutting Potatoes.

Potatoes and Latitude.

This is an interesting experiment, and one which needed to be made. The results are undoubtedly correct for "farmers," if that term is used in its ordinary sense, to designate those who practice a rather large and mixed husbandry. For market gardeners who grow particular crops, the results may sometimes be different, particularly in cauliflowers, cabbages and onions. Professor Butz has made a good point.

The bulletin also gives descriptive notes upon various vegetables, but no summaries of adaptation are drawn.