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plants Avlien tlicy become lou lliick, bill, careless people never do iliat, 

 and therefore are forced to sell their fruit at any price they can get. 



A longer experience has convinced me that the use of the Z. Breed 

 weeder in strawberries is a mistake. It is too harsh, and does more 

 injury on most soils than is at lirsL apparent. The new roots come out 

 above the old ones, very close to the surface, and the teeth of the weeder 

 tears them otr, thus destroying the growth of the plant. Many growers 

 have repoi'ted that it loosened the })lants in soft ground, and on hard 

 ground mashed and tore the crowns so the plants died. We have aban- 

 doned its use entirely, on our grounds, and use only the Planet jr. twelve- 

 tooth cultivator with pulverizer attachment. 



From the time the plants are set until freezing, they are cultivated 

 every week, going about three inches deep in center of the row and 

 barely breaking crust next to the plant. This brings the oxygen of 

 the air into contact with all ])arts of the soil, rendering plant 'food 

 available and effectually destroying capillary action. The water then 

 rises to the loose earth and passes out toward the plants, where it is 

 taken up by the roots. Crust which forms after a rain should be broken 

 at once, to let the air in to the roots and conserve moisture. 



The successful grower is always one who loves the business. Love is 

 born of success in any business. If he does everj'thing at the right time 

 and in the right w^ay, good results are quite sure to follow. He must and 

 will learn to look upon every plant with affection, and minister to its 

 w^ants from innate love. He never tires of the manure-fork, hoe, or culti- 

 vator. He is never satisfied with moderate things. He goes at his work 

 with vigor and energy, because he finds more pleasure in it than in any- 

 thing else. If a person can not bring himself to this condition, by all 

 means let him keep out of horticulture. You will find it a whole list of 

 disappointments, and an unprofitable business. Failure is born of aver- 

 sion, w^hich is another phrase for lack of energy and ability to put life 

 into the work. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Cook: I noticed one item in Mr. Kellogg's paper, and that was 

 the use of water by irrigation. Now, the thought which occurred to 

 me w^as, is water that he gets from wells and other sources equivalent 

 to the rain that falls from the clouds, as a fertilizing medium? Is 

 there anything we do not get in the water — don't we get from the atmos- 

 phere, or water falling through the atmosphere, something we do not 

 get from wells or from reservoirs from which we irrigate? . 



Mr. Kellogg: Scientists tell us that the snows bring down a con- 

 siderable amount of ammonia from the atmosphere, and the rains bring 

 <lown a very little, not so much as the snow. We use the water from 

 the river, from the millpond. We have a centrifugal pump and i)ump 

 it up 1,200 feet thit)ugh a six-inch pipe, and this we connect with a large 

 hose — the hose we use is eight inches in diameter. I use a centrifugal 

 pump driven by a wheel at present. I shall i)ut in a large gasoline 

 engine next year, unless I can make better arrangements with an 

 electric light company for doing the pumping by water power. We take 

 the water from a flume, and from it we get unquestionably a large 



