so STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



same is true. I saw yesterday a lady who raised 300 chickens in a 

 jjlumyard, and had a fine prospect for a good crop of plains. A per- 

 son needs to be nearly a specialist to succeed ; at any rate he must 

 give special attention to what he undertakes. 



Mr. Evans says that he learned from one gentleman that he got 

 more berries and more money off of 9 acres of strawberries than his 

 neighbors did off of 75 acres. 



Mr. Durand — The word intensely has not been explained satisfac- 

 torily. 



Mr. Blake — Plow deep ; cultivate shallow. 



Wednesday, June 6 — 2 p. m. 



Meeting called to order by the President. 



Prof. Chas. A. Keffer was called upon for a paper on " Breeding 



the Strawberry." ( Not at hand.) 



The Strawberry in Southwest Missouri 



Is grown mostly by the matted-row system. They are set in the spring 

 in rows about four feet apart. Any soil that will grow good corn or 

 I)otatoes will produce good crops of strawberries, and any location 

 will do, but one that is higher than that surrounding it is best on ac- 

 count of immunity from frosts. The planting should be done early in 

 spring, on land that has been plowed and harrowed until it is thoroughly 

 pulverized, and on which, if not already fertile, old thoroughly rotted 

 manure has been spread. Plant from one to three feet apart, accord- 

 ing to the variety, in rows four feet apart, by any one of the many 

 methods used that appears to be the best suited to the land, the amount 

 to be planted and other surrounding circumstances ; but whichever 

 method is used, the plants, when set, should be in a perfectly straight 

 line and the rows of uniform width. 



Cultivation should be commenced early and be done thoroughly 

 and often by some shallow-going tool like a spring-tooth or Planet Jr. 

 cultivator. It is important that it be done often, as it is much easier 

 and better to cultivate three times before the weeds get a start than 

 once afterward. Each time they are cultivated they should also be 

 carefully gone over with a hoe ; but if they were set perfectly straight 

 in the rows, the cultivator can be run right up to them and very little 

 will be left to be done with the hoe. 



As soon as runners form they should be trained along the row so as 

 to fill it up as soon as possible to about one foot in width, after which 



