en?

Mr. Hegerle: Well, we prefer the Refugee, both in wax and green. We
prefer them because they are the best in flavor we have.

Mr. Sauter: Which is the best, the flat or the round of the wax?

Mr. Hegerle: Round is preferred by the trade, by the grocers or jobbers.
I have kept the flat wax beans for my own use of those that we can.

Mr. Sauter: Don't the flat ones bring a little more than the round ones?

Mr. Hegerle: Well, probably the first or second picking, but you can't
pick them as often as the other variety. The Refugee you can pick four
or five or six times, and the flat beans can only be picked two times.

Mr. Anderson: I would like to ask what you pay for beans for canning
purposes?

Mr. Hegerle: We pay from 3/4 of a cent up to 4 cents a pound. Sometimes
a man brings in some that are almost too good to throw away, they are
big and stringy, and rather than send them home we think we have got to
take them and pay him something for them. We would rather not have them,
and we usually dump them. Starting from that we pay up to three and four
cents. Four cents for well sorted and mostly small beans. They have got
to be graded, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Number 1 is the smallest, and they bring
the best price. We pay in proportion to the number 1's and 2's in the
load.

Mr. Sauter: What tomato do you find the best for canning?

Mr. Hegerle: Well, the Earliana.

Mr. Sauter: Do you have any trouble with those bursting the cans?

Mr. Hegerle: No, sir.

Mr. Sauter: We had that trouble in canning for our own use. They burst
the can, they expanded.

Mr. Hegerle: That is the fault of the man, not of the tomato.

Mr. Sauter: They were picked and canned the same day.

Mr. Hegerle: Probably not sterilized enough. Sterilizing fruit is the
main thing. A tomato is really one of the easiest things to can.

Mr. Sauter: In other tomatoes we don't have that trouble. It seems to
hurt the sale of them to the women folks.

Mr. Hegerle: Sterilize them a little more.

Mr. Sauter: About how long would you cook them?

Mr. Hegerle: I am not the man at the wheel on that part. I don't know.
We have a superintendent that handles that part of it.

Top-Grafting.

AN EXERCISE LED BY A. J. PHILIPS, WEST SALEM, WIS., AT 1915 ANNUAL
MEETING OF THE SOCIETY.

Mr. Philips: When I first talked top-working in Minnesota, Professor
Green and some of the knowing ones felt a little leary about it, but I
kept right on just the sam