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getting started, and having roots an inch or two long, will ijroduce fruit 

 the next year, and they will load so enormously that they can not carry 

 the crop through, if in matted rows; in narrow rows or hills, it out-yields 

 anything, but suffers badly from drought. It may be that you suffer 

 from dry weather in Oceana county, and in that case Hayerland will 

 undoubtedly surpass it. 



Mr. Hale: I tried it three years in succession. With me, Parker Earle 

 heads the list. 



Mr. Rork: Hoav does Warfield compare in size with a good Wilson? 



Mr. Morrill: It is far superior when grown as I suggest. 



Mr. Hale: Has anyone tried Lovett? 



Mr. Rork: The catalogue recommends it highly. 



Mr. Morrill: It is a very good berry; a really good berry. 



Mr. Gebhart : What kind of soil did Mr. Welch grow Warfield on? 



Mr. Welch: My Warfields Avere grown on good moist soil, and they 

 have gone ahead, with me, every year, of any other variety. It is a good 

 large bern- and has stood the drouth as well as other varieties, consider- 

 ing the amount of fruit. Jessie picked a light crop, though it stood the 

 drouth. Beder Wood, I think, it not quite so early as Michel's Early, 

 but it is a good-size, firm berry. I have not grown Michel myself, because 

 several of my neighbors have grown it, and said it was only good for one 

 01- tAvo pickings, and Beder Wood is certainly a very productive berry; 

 it is a light red in color, firm and round. 



Mr. Burdick: What about VanDeman? 



Mr. Morrill : It is a slight improvement on Michel's Early ; is a trifle 

 firmer, perhaps. 



Mr. Burdick: I have grown it some, and have thought it was Wilson. 



Mr. Morrill : It is a little longer and darker. 



Mr. Burdick: I am using it for a fertilizer. What about Timbrell? 



Mr. Welch : I have neighbors that grow it and they speak well of it. 

 It has been of good size, jjroductive, and late. There is one thing in 

 regard to strawberries that perhaps we become confused on. I have 

 set but few early varieties. There is no money in them for me. I want 

 something that comes in the middle of the season and later, and I see 

 That many are resetting Avhere they have early varieties, and this matter 

 should be taken into consideration, where a person is setting a bed. 



Mr. Morrill: Do you like the manner of ripening of Timbrell? 



Mr. Welch: What little I have seen of it, I do not. I have hardly 

 proved it enough to form a just opinion. The first year of Warfield I 

 was a little disappointed, but after that it proved good. 



Mr. Rork: It colored well with me, but it showed scald. 



Ml'. Morrill: It ripens as though it had measles. 



Mr. Rork : Last year, at the top of the berry, before it was fit to pick, 

 it softened. 



Mr. Morrill : It will do that, if the temperature reaches 100 degrees. 



Mr. Rork: It was pretty warm; other berries, however, were not 

 afiected in the same way. 



Mr. Rice: It has been suggested to me, by persons in the upper pen- 

 insula, whether it would not be possible to grow strawberries there, and 

 to get good prices. They report heavy yields and fine quality, but it was 

 questioned whether, coming into market after the season was about over, 



