122 NEBRASKA STATE I lUltTlCL ETL'UAL SOCIETY. 



A Member: Is stable maimiv as satisfaetorv to iiuilch 

 with as straw? 



A Member : ^'o. The best Jiiukh iu the world is prairie 

 hay or wheat straw. 



A Member : What time should manure be applied to straw- 

 berries, and what is the lite of a strawberry bed? 



Mr. Nation : Whenever you have time to haul it out, but 

 since you said summer manuring killed them 1 have held my 

 breath. I remember the hrst time I had a hired man he in- 

 sisted on carrying it across tiie lot, so we drove it all around 

 the fence. I have an acre and a half and I am going to man- 

 ure the whole patch as soon as I can get on the ground after 

 it dries out a little, I don't know what is the best time. 



Mr. Harrison : Why don't you haul it out now? 



Mr. Nation : I am on the road all the time and can not 

 now as I am only home on Sundays, about two Sundays in 

 the month. I don't think any particular time hurts straw* 

 berries unless you put it on too thick and kill them off in that 

 way. 



Mr. Christy : I believe with certain varieties where you 

 manure too long you get too much nitrogen in the soil and 

 then you get a large plant growth and a small crop of berries. 

 They run to vines, as the soil has too much nitrogen and there 

 is the trouble. With Senator Dunlap on the ground that 

 never had been fertilized is where I get the berries. I have 

 gotten the most berries where there wasn't too much manur- 

 ing. 



A Member : What is the best varieties of strawberries for 

 marketing in Lincoln? 



Mr. Shaver: I should say that my experience has been the 

 Warfleld and Senator Dunlap, but the Senator Dunlap turn 

 black too quick; they don't hold their color, they are too dark 

 and if they liave to be carried over until the next day they 

 Bay, "Why those berries are spoiled." They do not resist the 

 frost as well with me as others. On this manure question, T 

 want to say a word on that. In planting strawberries I don't 



