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face produced a berry measuring 4^ inches, and from this to hard clay) I 

 can not see why they will not open a new and successful era in straw- 

 berry culture throughout the strawberry belt. 



" Respectfully, 



" GEORGE J. KELLOGG, 



" Chairman Committee. 

 " f concur in the above. 



"JAMES HELMES, 



" Superintendent.''^ 



After reading the two resolutions as above given, Mr. 

 Kellogg said: ■ "Now if you have anything to say against 

 the variety, trot it out. I believe from the report of Presi- 

 dent Smith, of sixty-seven berries on one plant he set last 

 fall on his grounds, as lie reports, and with the showing of 

 the variety we saw on the ground, and the parched condi- 

 tion of the soil, where you could stick your hand right down 

 in the cracks between the plants, and the small amount of 

 manure applied, it is ahead of anything I have ever seen 

 under cultivation. 



Mr. Tuttle — I am in favor of that resolution, and still it 

 seems to me it doesn't do Mr. Loudon justice. It does not 

 speak of a single berry. What seems to me most wonder- 

 ful is that he should have produced such an amount of 

 strawberries. I believe that Mr. Loudon's strawberries are 

 of more value to the country than all the different straw- 

 berries originated in the whole country in the last few 

 years. 



President Smith — I would like to say a few words about 

 this. I wanted to put in a few varieties last fall for a par- 

 ticular object. My object was to try the Manchester for 

 fall setting. Just that day I received a few plants of the 

 Jessie, from Mr. Loudon. I set them in the same bed with 

 the Manchester and the Wilson. The plants came in 

 good order, and I set them just as I did the Wilson and 

 Manchester. They grew well during the fall, and during the 

 winter I covered them. In the spring one of them was 

 dead from some cause, the others lived and are alive yet, but 

 two or three of them are somewhat injured. The day be- 

 fore I left home, I examined one, the best of the lot, and 

 counted sixty-seven berries on it. They had moderate sized. 



