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is for all to set out strawberries if only enough for your own 

 use. 



While my wife and I were at the Lewis and Clark Exposition 

 this fall at Portland, we went down through the State of Oregon 

 and over the Siskiyou range by Mount Shasta and down the 

 Sacramento Valley to San Francisco and thence to Los Angeles 

 in Southern California. As I passed along I saw them setting, 

 cultivating and picking strawberries all in the same field. They 

 can have strawberries 8 months out of 12, but I was disappointed 

 in the apples and peaches, they lacked the flavor of ours. The 

 apples were coarse and punky and the peaches were sour and 

 lacked that peachey taste. Let me say right here that if we 

 Vermonters would cultivate, spray, thin, pick, grade, and pack 

 as carefully as they do in the great apple sections, especially 

 Hood River, we would soon get a reputation for our fruit that 

 would make us hustle to supply the demand at prices that would 

 leave a substantial margin. California, Oregon, Washington and 

 Idaho are coming to the front with leaps and bounds. They 

 have progressive, live, energetic and loyal men and the next 

 25 years will see wonderful changes all through those states, 

 but water is to be the sesame, the door through which a large 

 s.hare of their greatness will come. If we Vermonters would be 

 as loyal to our state, counties and towns as they are, we would 

 see a great wave of prosperity sweeping over our fair state. We 

 are not the little cold despised state that a great many would try 

 to make us believe ; there is less waste land here than most any 

 of the states we passed through, and of our trip of over 9,000 

 miles this little state of Vermont was the greenest state when 

 we went out of it September ist and the greenest state when we 

 returned October 31st of any state we passed through, and we 

 came back satisfied to remain a Vermonter and raise strawberries 

 and other small fruit. 



; CO-OPERATIVE APPLE CULTURE. 



BY T. L. KINNEY. 



Co-operation is a necessity of the times, in agricultural pur- 

 suits as well as most every other business enterprise. The high 

 price of first class machinery as well as help makes co-operation 

 many times a necessity on the farm. The harvesting and thresh- 

 ing of grain in the west compels the neighboring farmers to co- 

 operate, as no one farmer can care for the grain as fast as it is 

 threshed by those mammoth machines. 



