PROCEEDINGS OF 



District Horticultural and Good 

 Roads Institute. 



(HORTJCULTURAL DAY.) 



Held Under the Auspices of Purdue agricultural School, 

 New Albany, Ind., September 4, 1903. 



The meeting was called to order at 9:30 a. in., by the chairman, 

 Professor W. C. Latta, State Superintendent Farmers' Institute, Lafay- 

 ette, Indiana. 



The order of exercises was then taken up, the first being, "Conditions 

 of Success with Small Fruits." 



Mr. George B. Harrell, of Duncan, who was to have presented a 

 paper on Strawberries, was unable to be present, and Mrs. Ed. Fawcett, 

 of Floyd County was called upon to lead the discussion of this fruit. 

 Mrs. Fawcett addressed the meeting as follows: 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen— I will take for my subject 

 this morning, "An Acre of Strawberries, and How I Grow Them." 



I should begin by selecting my piece of ground, and I should like 

 to prepare this ground two years before I set it in strawberries. I should 

 begin with a rotation of crops, of something from which I could get 

 two crops a 5'ear, such as potatoes, onions and cabbage. Then, in the 

 fall before I am ready to set my strawberry plants, I would subsoil this 

 ground about sixteen inches deep. Some ground does well without sub- 

 soiling, while others do much better with it. 



When we subsoil, we pulverize the lower stratum; thus creating a 

 reservoir of water under the plants, which will carry them through th«! 

 long drouths. You will remember what a dry fall we had two years 

 ago, when there was no rain from the Fourth of July until October. 

 That season I set an acre of strawberries, for which I had subsoiled I he 



