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blunder in our failure to follow it out. Pedigree means breeding a plant 

 from certain known parentage. 



Levi Chubbuck, St. Louis. — Does pedigree mean simply the known 

 part of the life ? Has not every seedling a pedigree ? 



L. E. Clements. — One thing has as much pedigree as any other, 

 but it is not always known. 



W. H. Barnes, Topeka, Kan. — Pedigree usually means a record of 

 ancestry. 



Murray. — Advertised pedigrees means nothing; the whole is not 

 known. 



STRAWBERRIES:— THE DEMAJs^D; THE SUPPLY. 

 By G. A. Atwood, Springfield, Mo. 



The strawberry season of 1899 is closing as this State Horticultural 

 meeting opens. Many growers are saying that the supply has been far 

 in excess of the demand. Those who have lost the money paid for 

 crates, for picking, who paid large sums for cultivation, or, who per- 

 formed that work themselves at the cost of many backaches, whose 

 berries only sold for enough to pay freight and refrigeration, insist that 

 the supply has been in excess of the demand. 



Some of the unfortunate strawberry culturists will not agree with 

 this paper. For no class of workers have we more sympathy than for 

 the men who are making a specialty of growing this best of all fruits, 

 and our earnest purpose in presenting these pages is to give facts and 

 opinions that will help, in some measure, to improve the conditions that 

 surround thousands of berry gi'owers in this section which is specially 

 adapted to the production of strawberries.. 



It is pertinent to remember here, in considering this question, that 

 north Arkansas and Missouri are inseperable. The measure of success 

 made in Missouri is largely regulated by the record made of the earlier 

 crop in our sister state. In 1897 Missouri led Arkansas in amount of 

 berry production, but this year twice as many berries were grown in 



