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A[r. Heath — Can you go deeper than eight indies? 



Mr. Youngers — Yes, sir; you can go down sixteen inches if you 

 put on horse power enough. 



Mu. Heath — Is it desirable to go very deep? 



Mr. Youngers — We have never exceeded sixteen inches; I think 

 we started in at about fourteen inches. 



The President — One word further in regard to the Perine sub- 

 soil plow; his latest and best plow has two points made from very 

 excellent steel tempered hard. You can have your blacksmith temper 

 them each time you have them sharpened, and by sharpening the 

 points daily you can penetrate a very dry subsoil much more readily 

 and to a greater depth. 



Question — How long will the effects of subsoiling last? 



IVIr. Youngers — It will last four or five years. 



Mr. Brown — I believe the third year is better than the first. 



SUCCESS WITH STRAWBERRIES. 



L. O. WILLIAMS. 



Success with most any business enterprise is accompanied with oc- 

 casional reverses, and successful strawberry growing especially is not 

 unmixed with more or less frequent failures. The failures, however, 

 may be due to causes outside of our control, and our success must be 

 largely measured, therefore, by the ability with which the grower per- 

 forms his part of the work, — "Act well your part, there all the honor 

 lies," — let God and nature do the rest. It will be my aim then in this 

 pa})er to name some of the conditions of success that lie within the 

 range of man's abilities. 



The first condition of success I would name is the selection of a suit- 

 able soil and location. The saying that any good corn land is suitable 

 for strawberries I would amend by substituting garden soil for "corn 

 land." Strawberries certainly appreciate good soil as well as good 

 cultivation, and though corn land may be good, garden land is cer- 

 tainly better. Any soil that will grow good potatoes is very suitable, 

 and there is no crop better than potatoes or other root crops to precede 



