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half to death. I said, "Lay that thing right up." I ran out and told hint 

 to ''sit down! stop! Take this a^^ay and never take it into another straw- 

 berry held." It was a blunder. But I would use the Breed weeder on 

 spring-set raspberries. I do that now. I have not thrown my weeder» 

 awav. I would use them on corn, but I don't use them on strawberries. 

 T wish to call your attention to one thing: You must not use anything that 

 will jam a strawberry crown. When you injure the crown the plant never 

 will grow. Pinch a strawberry plant and it will not grow. I would 

 rather take that weeder into the cornfield than any tw'O other imple- 

 ments of which I ever read. 1 assume it is good, soft, loam soil. So I 

 would in most anything else. I raise a good many blackberry plants and 

 I use the weeder among them. I never have found anything equal, as a 

 whole, for strawberries, to a twelve-tooth cultivator with a fertilizer 

 attachment. There are several of them that we use on the farm. 



Mr. ^lason : I used the Breed w-eeder all summer in my strawberries, 

 but I took out tw^o teeth where they come near the row\ I can take twO' 

 teeth out of my Breed weeder and do nicer work than Mr. Kellogg can 

 with his Planet jr. cultivator. I have also used weeder in my young 

 peach trees when they were not an inch high. 



Mr. Kellogg: Well, they have no roots to rip off near the surface. 



Mr. Morrill : I w'ould not wish the Breed weeder to get into bad repute 

 anywhere, because I use it. 

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