• Winter Mcctins^. -67 



The "spice of life" is never lacking-, for variety is always in evi- 

 dence. The differences in the seasons and conditions keep us con- 

 tinually interested and guessing, and I, for one, find much satisfaction 

 in the experiences that fall to my lot as a commercial strawberry 



grower. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Geo. Holsinger.— A\'e want to set our strawberries early in 

 the spring, and we can get our own earlier than plants frpm the 

 north. The plants T have bought are not equal to our own home- 

 grown plants. 



Mr. Speakman.— I am glad to find that the strawberry has been 

 given a place at the winter meeting, as strawberry growers can not 

 attend the sumer meeting. It comes just when they are busy pick- 

 ing and marketing their fruit. 



Mr. McNallie. — I have not prepared a paper upon the subject as- 

 signed me by "the secretary. You know my views and practices. I 

 am glad we have with us a distinguished strawberry man from JNIich- 

 igan. I call for R. M. Kellogg. 



Pres. Robnett.— Mr. Kellogg will address us. 



Mr. Kelloers'. — I ousfht to be glad that I am introduced as Air. 

 Kellogg. Some call me Strawberry Crank Kellogg. I bear the 

 high official honor of being the ambassador of the horticulturists of 

 the State of Michigan, to carry the greeting of the fruit growers of 

 that State to the citizens of the land of the big red apple and of straw- 

 berries by the train load. I am a crank and I glory in it. I want to 

 talk to you people on strawberries and rattle your heads together till 

 this floor is covered with ideas which I can take back home with me to 

 my people. There has not been a waking hour in the last twenty years 

 in which I have not been stud}- ing, planning and trying to devise some 

 way to grow more and better berries. I am often asked for a method 

 gf growing better berries b}' men who say they have no time to wait 

 or experiment. I tell them to sit down and wait till they are not in 

 a hurry. If you go at it right you can m.ake more money out of a 

 strawberry bed than anything else I know. It has been said that 

 the proper way to train a child is to begin with his great, great, great 

 grand-father. You want to begin three or four generations ahead to 

 grow strawberries. I will tell you that I am now preparing land in 

 which to set strawberries in 1905. I am getting manure from the 

 Chicago stock yards, 137 miles away. I will spread twenty-f;ye tons 

 per acre on eighty acres. This manure is from the stock pens and is 

 pure excrement. In the spring when the ground is dry enough to 



