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corn, wheat and potatoes. If the market price does not suit them, they 

 may store their product away for better conditions; but we are com- 

 pelled to let our berries go into the market, unaware of what we shall 

 receive as compensation until we get our bill of sales, some three or four 

 days after we consign our berries. 



Then, of course, the elements of rain and snow, and of frost, have 

 considerable to do with our success, and affect it very materially. We 

 find the frosts in the spring often kill our plants, and we are always 

 glad when we do not have that misfortune to contend with. 



I believe that is all that occurs to me now, but if you will ask any 

 questions, I may perhaps be able to answer them better than I can talk. 



Question: How wide apart do you place your rows? 



Mrs. Fawcett: Four feet apart, as a general thing, but this year 

 there was a very luxuriant growth, and we thought perhaps if they were 

 farther apart it would be better. As a general thing, however, four feet 

 is enough. 



Question: Do you trim the plants of suckers? 



Mrs. Fawcett: Not very much. Some varieties make more suckers 

 than others. The Senator Dunlap made a great many runners, and we 

 thouglit that perhaps if we had trimmed it, it would have been better. 



Dr. Wolfe: Mrs. Fawcett, can you not grow better plants than those 

 you bu}'? 



Mrs. Fawcett: I do not think so. I think the one we set out is 

 tlio bpst. A pedigreed plant is the finest plant there is. 



Mr. Burton: Suppose I want six plants to the foot— had those plants 

 better be set out six at first to the foot, or one to the foot and grow the 

 other five from the runners? 



Mrs. Fawcett: One should be set out, and the other five will grow 

 from runners. 



Mr. Burton: In a strong plant had you bettor sot out six to the 

 foot, or set out one and grow the other five from runners? 



Mrs. Fawcett: It is this way— it depends upon what you want to 

 raise. If you want to raise plants you set closer. And it depends upon 

 the soil, too. In our soil we want to shade the gi-ound as far as possible, 

 and if you plant too far apart it becomes dry with the evaporation that 

 is going on all the time. If you shade the ground you got better fruit. 

 We do not want the plants matted too close together, but we want them 

 close enough to keep the ground shaded. 



