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Ml'. Kelloji'^: I (lied lluil. Yon nmy train your men 1o iiso them, but 

 I tell YOU lliey Avill nut ji'et down thcic, and they have to adjust it; but 

 they take a knife like that, a thumb and pen-knife, and they can just 

 reach right in there and do it. 



Mr. ]\roi'ri]l: I jiiiarantoe you some of them will start the roots. 



Mr. Kellojij;: ^'o, you will not if you use a sliarp knife. They are 

 pretty tender when they are small; after they are big and blossomed 

 out and get long stems you must look out. But the way we put plants in 

 you don't si art the roots. 



Mr. Slayton : I do not wish to discount anything Mr. Kellogg has said, 

 but I move to amend. I wish to encourage everybody to raise as many 

 strawberries as their families can eat, or else buy them. I once set 220 

 plants. Within eight weeks T picked eight quarts of strawberries from 

 those ])lants. The next spring 1 picked four bushels and four quarts 

 from them; with proper care and cutting off all runners, the next spring 

 I picked four bushels and two quarts; the next spring I picked over 

 three bushels and a half; and the next spring they bore a fair crop. That 

 was on sandy land in the village of Whitehall, on the first plateau, above 

 the level of the lake twenty feet, where, if you dug down two feet, you 

 would come into white sand the same as on the lake shore. 



Mr. Morrill: You have no evidence but if you had taken the blossoms 

 off the first year they would have borne ten, have you? 



Mr. Slayton: No; that is Mr. Kellogg's part of the story. I will simply 

 say that the four bushels and four quarts, when there was plenty of cream 

 and good white sugar, went well enough. 



Mr. Morrill: I have no doubt but you would have gotten ten if you had 

 taken the blossoms off the first year. 



Mr. Croy : I wish to say, for the benefit of Mr. Pitt, that some years ago 

 I had five or six rows of strawberries in my garden. They were Bubach. 

 Well. I hoed and I cut runners off, and I fertilized, and I did everything 1 

 could; I worked hard. I was left like Mr. Pitt. I did not have any berries 

 to reward me for my labors. I became discouraged. I went down to Mr. 

 Mason's. '' Why," he said, " I will tell you what is the matter with your 

 berries. You set a perfect-flowering sort along with them and you will 

 have berries." I got some plants and set them out, and the next spring 

 I had bushels of berries off of those Bubachs. That is what is the matter 

 with those plants. You should get some perfect-flowering sort and you 

 will have berries. ■ 



Mr. Morrill : He speaks of having Jessie. We found Jessie an excellent 

 pollenizer for Bubach. 



Mr. Kellogg: The pollen seems to be weak in Jessie. Some years there 

 is no potency to it. 



Mr. Morrill: So far as that is concerned, I would rather have Michel 

 Early than any of them. 



Mr. Croy: If you do not have any frost very early in the spring, Jessie 

 is all right: if you do, it is all wrong. 



Prof. Tracy: I wish to say a word regarding one thing Mr. Kellogg 

 suggested from his experience — that the family which sat and just stuffed 

 strawberries all the time, did so for his benefit, and I have had somewhat 

 the same experience in regard 1o vegetabh s. I am so situated that 1 have 

 an opportunity to produce vegetables fresh from the garden, and this has 

 been an experience that has occurred time and time again. I have asked 



