620 BOAED OF AGRICUI.TUKE. 



deal better for your having destroyed the:fee young ones. This is the 

 case when raising strawberry beds for plants as well as for fruit. This 

 month and next month go along and tear up the runners. 



Mr. DeVilbiss: Take a weeder and go over the patch and you can 

 take three rows at a time. 



Mr. Henry: A weeder isn't strong enough; it takes more muscle. 



Mr. Van Deman: If you will use the weeder long enough and quick 

 enough I think you can succeed. If you wait a day too long you will 

 not succeed. 



Prof. Latta: The meeting- stands adjourned until 1:30. 



WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON SESSION". 



Prof. Latta: The meeting will now please come to order. I think 

 that we might take a few minutes right here in regard to the question 

 that Mr. Stanley asked last night. He wanted to ask it again this 

 morning, but it seemed that we did not have time for it. I think we can 

 discuss it here now while Mr. Van Deman is getting ready to give us 

 his discussion. His question is in regard to cultivating during a di*y 

 time. As I have said, it should have come up this morning, but we 

 passed it then, so we will take it up now. Mr. Stanley, will you please 

 repeat the question as you would like to have it put? 



Mr. Stanley; I put the question as to the advisability of plowing 

 corn frequently during drought in extremely sandy soil, but I will 

 change that to any soil, and if there is any difference I should like for it 

 to come out in this discussion. 



Prof. Latta: Well now I would like to ask first how many corn 

 and strawberry gi'owors do ciiltivate their corn or strawberries, and 

 keep it up during the dry weather? Are there any that cease cultivation 

 during the dry time? If so, will you please i-aise yoiu' hands. Noav the 

 reasons that we will have will be from practice. We will have your 

 views first, Mr. Stanley. 



Mr. Stanley: I will say that I cultivate during dry seasons, because 

 my father did so and he was a successful corn raiser. I simply did it 

 because he did. I do not believe I ever destroyed a crop by doing so. 

 I have loam, clay and sandy soil. 



Mr. DeVilbiss: I cultivate during a dry time with a fine-toothed 

 cultivator, and If it l>ecomes an extremely dry time so that there are 

 cracks in the ground I take an old mower wheel and hitch a horse to it 

 and drag it through the rows. This will close up the cracks and in the 

 driest time will keep the corn green and keep it from firing. 



