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nice hoe aud I am imich obli.uc'd to Mr. Ileury for it, but I lilie a lioe 

 about forir inches -vrider. Mr. President, we have tlye best stra"wbcrry 

 grower In the State with us, Granville Cowing, and I would like to hear 

 from him. 



Granville Cowing: I don't know why you should call on me. My son 

 Louis here can tell you more about this than I can. 



Amos Garretson: I want my friends all to know that this is Granville 

 Cowing, who is my dear old, friend whom I almost worship. 



Granville Cowing: I have been growing strawberries for over fortj' 

 years in my present location here. We always aimed to have the very 

 best strawberries in the market. We always market berries with the 

 stems on them. We tell the pickers to take the stem in their fingers and • 

 give it a quick jerk. I have never sold berries for less than 10 cents a 

 quart. Last year we sold twelve thousand quarts in Muncie. They 

 ranged, in price from 10 to 20 cents a quart. We have our regular trade. 

 I sell but very few beri'ies, but my son has just planted five acres. I 

 thought this morning as I passed the field that I never saw such a perfect 

 field of strawberries in my life. We like the Warfield, Buback, and. the 

 Eidgeway and Dunlap. Well the Dunlap has not been very satisfactory 

 to me, but was more satisfactory this year than ever before. My friend 

 Garretson told me that the Marie did remarkably well for him, but they 

 didn't for me. The ground makes all the difference in the world. I 

 haven't much to say, but if you have any questions I would be glad to 

 answer them. 



President Stevens: We would like to hear from our friend Garretson. 



Amos Garretson: I haven't much to say. The strawberries that do 

 well on my farm will not do well at all on somebody's else farm, so you 

 oan not advise people. I had a fine large crop of berries this year. I 

 always instruct my pickers to put the nicest berries out of sight, putting 

 the ordinary ones on top. If they find an exceptionally nice one I want 

 it hid aAvay. I'll tell you my berries sell themselves, for people know 

 just what they will be. Take care of your ground in the fall so that the 

 berries can grow. 



President Stevens: We will have to discontinue this subject and take 

 up the next. I have the pleasure of introducing to you a young man who 

 has had a great deal of experience along this line. He is now running 

 quite an extensive canning factory that he has built up from a small 

 beginning on his mother's stove. He is a sane-minded young man, and 

 writes for some of our best agricultural papers. I refer to Klmer G. 

 Tufts, Aurora, Ind. 



