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Mr. Williams: I would rather take a dibble, a hand dibble, made 

 to order, and I put them out three to five hundred an hour, and I 

 don't work hard either. 



Mr. Christy: I have seen you planting them, and I believe I can 

 plant two to your one. 



Q. What would you do with the strawberries where it was sunny 

 and windy for a week or two, — about planting them. 



Mr_ Christy: I do not know, unless you could go on a north 

 slope and you can get them where the wind won't strike them. You 

 might do like I did with the Everbearer the first year I received them. 

 I built a frame and put a covering over them so that I would have them 

 sure. I was going to be very careful so that I would not loose them. 

 Of course you can't do that with a big bed. Yet where the wind 

 blows out west, you must get them where it won't strike. I think it 

 wo'uld be well in a place like that to have them where you could 

 irrigate them and mulch them. Now the finest berries that are grown 

 down in our country, are by one fellow there who usually puts from 

 four to six inches of manure over his berries and leaves it there. He 

 takes just enough off from the row so that the plants can get through; 

 the plants will bear for a long time. 



Q. You mean as soon as the plants are put in, — in the spring? 



A. No sir, but on in the fall after growth has stoppei. 



Mr. Brown: If you have to plant the strawberry plants in the 

 summer time, — of course, if you can possibly wait, why wait, but if 

 jou must plant them, nine times out of ten, if you take your knife and 

 take off the foliage, you Avill save your plants. 



Mr. Christy: The strawberry stores enough material in the 

 crown of the plant in the fall to start growth, and if you will put 

 them out that way, there is enough strength in the plant to start it 

 in the spring. Now do not wait until that growth is started, get the 

 plant early. 



Q. Do yru consider that when plants are received by a planter 

 that to put them in a cool place, and cover them with some brush 

 would be a good thing? 



A. No sir, plant them right at once. 



The Chairman: The next paper will be by Professor F. M. Har- 

 rington, of Ames, la., on "Horticultural Practices in Oregon." 



HOKTICULTUKAL PRACTICES IX OREfvOX 



Prof. F. M. Harrington, Ames, la. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is perhaps the idea of many 

 of central and eastern United States, that the fine, perfect, highly col- 

 ored apples which may be and are grown, in sections of the Pacific 

 Northwest, are the results of climatic and soil conditions which could 

 not result in anything but fine fruit — that is, a natural result which 

 could not be otherwise. However, I wish to show in this paper that the 



