36 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Wednesday, June G — 9 a. m. 



Meeting called to order by the President, and the Secretary read a 

 letter from Wild Bros., who sent some trees from cool storage for the 

 Society to plant and test. 



The Secretary asked Mr. D. A. Robnett to take charge of them 

 and see to their distribution to parties who would take care of them 

 and report at our winter meeting. 



Sarcoxie, Mo , June 4, 1894. 

 L. A. Goodman, Secretary M. S. II. S. : 



Dear Sir— Enclosecl And $1.00 membership fee. We also today express prepaid one 

 bundle of trees taken from stock In our storage building; this stock tender to the members 

 of the Society with request that they give it a ti-ial, and hope that members will report to 

 the Society at Its next meeting as to results, etc. 



If possible one of our Arm will attend the meeting. With best wishes for the success- 

 of the meeting, we are Yours truly, James B. Wild & Bkos. 



The following parties were given trees 



Samuel Miller Bluffton 



S W\ Gilbert Thayer 



A. Nelson Lebanon 



F. D. Evans Harrlsonvllle 



J. J. Blakely Platte City 



W. B Scruggs Harrlsonvllle- 



J. B. Durand Prairie City 



M. P. Whalen Holden 



J. C. Evans N. Kansas City 



D. A. Robnett Columbia 



The Strawberry. 



Much has been said and written about the cultivation and market- 

 ing of this fruit, and still we have a great study before us, in new meth- 

 ods, new varieties, new soils to develop etc. The question of " How 

 best to grow them ?" is an important one, and as yet I am not satisfied 

 with my system. For four yeais T have been cultivating in the matted 

 row — setting the plants in checks three by four feet, and cultivating 

 both ways until plants begin to form runners lively, and then train the 

 runners to fill the three foot space. It has been almost an endless task 

 to keep the plants from getting too thick in the row and thereby caus- 

 ing many small berries. This spring I have set five acres in matted 

 rows and ten acres in hill culture, putting the plants about two and 

 one-half feet apart each way. I shall endeaver to keep all runners off 

 of the plants and produce some of the largest berries ever grown in 

 South Missouri, in 1895. The ground where I am growing berries is 

 very rocky — in fact, most of it is completely covered with flint rocks ; 

 so that mulching is not necessary. I prefer a southeast slope, either 

 near the top of the hill or right on top, so that the early morning's sun 

 will dry the patch off early in the morning. 



