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grown on the same land adjoining, and some on the salted land, and 

 any one can see the great difference. Four bushels per acre is enough. 



Dr. Porter had agreed with him to make some experiments in this 

 line also, and we would have the results next winter. I think the salt 

 makes properties of the soil available for plant food. 



Mr. Holloway — Sold a man a bill of pear trees, and he set them 

 out on gravelly loam, using salt very freely. He has never had pear 

 blight. 



Mr. Hartzell advises fine soil as our best mulch, and salt as the 

 best fertilizer. 



Mr. Turner — The question of early and late blooming of the straw- 

 berry is a question of crop [or no crop some seasons like the present. 

 Can we have a good berry that blooms late? 



Mr. Murray could not give dates of blooming of strawberries, but 

 thought the point made by Mr. Turner a good one, and one we]should 

 look after in securing new varieties. 



Mr. Miller — Parker Earle and Timbrell are late bloomers, and are 

 among his very best berries. 



Mr. Gilbert — Parker Earle and Gandy are his latest bloomers. 

 Michel's Early is no good. 



Mr. Murray has retarded blooming of some varieties by mulching ; 

 thinks we should all take notes of time of blooming of our fruits. 



Mr. Speer thinks Mr. Murray is on the right track. Orescent is 

 one of first to bloom and also one of the latest, so that we nearly 

 always have some Crescent. Late bloomers are what we want in all our 

 fruits, like the Geniting apple. The Lady Rusk stood the frost best of 

 anything. 



Mr. Miller finds that it takes from 23 to 30 days for strawberries to 

 ripen. 



Mr. Whalen is the only friend of Cloud Seedling. It does well 

 with him. Stayman's No. 1 is looking well, is firm, and will stand rain 

 for three days at picking time. 



Mr. Hartzell wants to know what Mr. Gilbert means by plowing 

 four feet deep, and what Mr. Blake means by intensive farming ? 



Mr. Gilbert — I do not mean that I plow four feet deep, but just 

 as near that as possible. Mr. Hartzell has a plow that I tried, but could 

 not use it on account of the rock in our soil, but if I could use it I 

 would not take a lot for it. I think it the best plow made. 



Mr. Blake — Intensive faroaing ! That, practically, means that, 

 farming thoroughly 20 acres of corn, the man gets just as many bush- 

 els as the one who farms 80 acres poorly; and in horticultural lines the 



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