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any soft or overripe berries, they should go to the home 

 lunrket or be canned. The picking of a large field is no small 

 task and you must have your pickers well managed. To 

 find good careful pickers is a hard job, for one careless one 

 can easy spoil and leave on vines more than his picking 

 amounts to. I believe where there are many growers there 

 should be a good growers' association to market at the best 

 advantage. I might add a few words as to spraying. I am 

 intending to use the best spray. Sometimes the Dunlap is 

 bothered by the leaf rollers. I will use Paris green with the 

 lime for this purpose, being careful not to spray after berries 

 have set. 



There is much more that could be written about the deli- 

 cious strawberry, which has become as staple as our bread, 

 meat and sugar. I find that the more we think we know about 

 the strawberry the more we find that we do not know. I might 

 answer a few anticipated questions. In growing these heavy 

 yields of berries I have never used any commercial fertilizer 

 only plenty of good stable manure and good cultivation. 

 Best results have been obtained by a thin mated row about 

 fourteen inches wide. I would like some information as to 

 best method of tall^dng and paying pickers. I have thought 

 of having metal checks so as to give a check for each carrier- 

 ful as they are brought in and have them cashed at the bank 

 the same as a paper check. I use only large well rooted 

 plants from new plantings. 



DISCUSSION. 



President Green : In regard to this method of tallying, if 

 there are any questions you would like to ask in regard to this 

 strawberry growing proposition, put it into the question box 

 and we will have it answered. There are several competent 

 and good straw^berry growers present, and if there is anything 

 you want to ask about, write it on a piece of paper and put in 

 the question box, and we will have it answered the last thing 



