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Mr. Wilson: I am sorry that I did not have time to prepare a 

 paper, but I have some points jotted down that will bring out discussion. 

 I have been growing berries for possibly twenty years. 



GROWING STRAWBERRIES FOR MARKET. 



THEO. WILSON, INDIANAPOLIS. 



The selection of varieties. This is a puzzling question. Varieties I 

 grow on my fruit farm: Haverland, Bubach, Warfield, Pocomoke, Senator 

 Dunlap, Wm. Belt, Clyde and Gandy. Do not set too many varieties. It 

 is said no variety does equally well in all soils and in all localities. 



I have said in my few remarks on the paper that a man must 

 have capacity to grow strawberries. This reminds me of the old man 

 that was sending his son to college to take a mathematical course. 

 Finally he received word that his son was not getting along just right, 

 so he went to see the Professor himself. The Professor said to him, 

 •'Your son lacks the capacity," and the old gentleman answered: "Well, 

 just furnish him with anything he needs and I will foot the bill." 

 Success with strawberries all hinges on a system, and this system 

 must be strictly adhered to. With the wide opportunities which open 

 to the ambitious and wude-awake, energetic strawberry grower, there 

 ' is no limit to the greatness he may attain. 



The first berries that I have any recollection of is the Wilson's 

 Albany. This berry was first produced by John Wilson, of Albany, 

 hence the name, Wilson's Albany. This was a grand, good berry. I 

 have never yet seen strawberi-ies that will come up to this berry. The 

 berries did not get soft and mushy, and had a delightful flavor. I 

 wish I had ten acres of these berries, now, as they used to be. 



Strawberry growing in Indiana is a big thing. Our soil and climate 

 seem to be adapted to their growth. In the j'ear 1903 there was produced 

 in Indiana more than five thousand bushels of stra-wberries. This much 

 corn would not amount to much, but in strawberries it means a good deal. 

 It would mean a value to the grower of eight hundred thousand dollars. 

 Marion County alone in 1903 produced nearly thirty thousand cases, equal 

 to twenty-two thousand five hundred bushels, in money value to the 

 grower of $40,000. Indianapolis is a great distributive center. Our large 

 commercial houses here are doing a wonderful business. They are known 

 all over the United States. Berries come here early in the spring from the 

 South. They come in from the. southern part of the State itself early in 



