them all the sunlight you can. When they are about two inches high,
have some four-inch flower pots and transplant, giving them a good
thorough wetting before removing them from the seed box to the flower
pots.

By this time it will be warm enough to have a cold frame, which may be
prepared by nailing four boards together any size desired. One three by
six feet will hold about 150 plants. Shelter it well from the north and
slope it a little to the south with enough dirt in the frame to hold
your pots.

You can cover them with storm windows or cloth tacked onto frames. Keep
well covered nights and give all the sunlight possible through the day.
After danger of frost is past, set them out. Sandy loam is best, which
must be well pulverized and fertilized.

After you have removed the plant from the pot and set it in the ground,
place the pot about two inches from the plant, also about two inches
deep in the ground. Then throw a small handful of dirt in each pot and
fill with water as often as necessary.

This is the best way of watering that I know.

Mr. Sauter: What kind do you think is the best for an early variety?

Mr. Purdham: Well, the Earliana is extensively raised and the Dwarf
Champion.

Mr. Sauter: What do you think of the Red Pear?

Mr. Purdham: I don't know anything about that, but for a late variety of
tomato the Ponderosa is quite a tomato; it is a very large tomato.

Mr. Sauter: How about the Globe?

Mr. Purdham: That is a good tomato.

Mr. Sauter: What do you know of the paper cartons instead of flower
pots?

Mr. Purdham: I have never tried the cartons; I should think they would
be all right.

Mr. Miller: In saving your seed from year to year, is there any danger
of the seed running out in time?

Mr. Purdham: I don't think so. If you take your best tomatoes I think
you will improve them.

Mr. Miller: I should think the germination of that seed would run out?

Mr. Purdham: That may be, I can't say as to that. There are people that
make a specialty of studying that.

Annual Report, 1915, Vice-President, First Congressional District.

F. I. HARRIS, LA CRESCENT, MINN.

In making a report for the First Congressional District, I will say at
the beginning, that all my observations and interviews were taken in
Houston and Winona counties, an especially favored locality this year,
and I am well aware that the conditions and results are exceptional and
do not form a just estimate for t