90 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



In some varieties one row will fertilize four of the pistillate varieties, 

 while in others, which blossom less profusely it requires two. Care 

 should be taken to plant together those which blossom at the same time. 



The female plant is equal in importance to the male in the fecundation 

 of fruits. When the stigma is mature and moist with receiving fluid it 

 only requires one grain of pollen to each pistil. 



We have heard of large crops of trashy strawberries, but we prefer a 

 nice crop of bright, plump berries that have quality and will bring the 

 cash. 



The following are good sellers in our market: Sharpless, Cumber- 

 land, Crawford, Jessie, Long John, Brandywine, and Gandy, for fancy. 

 For general use: Beder Wood, Van Deman, Crescent, Greenville, and 

 Warfield, and I see no objection to Belle of La Crosse, and some others. 



Mr. Nelson: I would like to know how you select strawberry plants. 



Mr. Wilde: My idea is to select a plant in the spring, from a bed used 

 the previous year. We eliminate all the weakness by propagating from 

 a robust plant, a perfect plant that shows a large crown. It is a simple 

 method and pays; then I cut off all the blossoms before they open, for the 

 purpose, as I explained, of preventing pollen exhaustion. Then I let one 

 or two berries grow. I watch them, and scale from one to ten, from the 

 most perfect plant down ; I then cut off the other plants, and if necessary 

 put on a weak solution of manure, and then I cut plants, and keep a proi)a- 

 gating bed, and next year I take them to this bed and let them root. The 

 next year, I set the fruiting field from this bed. The next year, I make 

 a selection again, taking care to cut off the runners. I don't care about 

 cutting the runners from pistillates; I would just as soon they would 

 keep themselves exhausted ; I depend upon perfect flowers set near them. 

 I have investigated this matter thoroughly and have satisfled myself 

 beyond question that it is of the greatest importance to keep them 

 restricted, and in full vigor. 



Q: You say you pot your plants? How many from the same runner? 



A: All I can get. 



Q: Hasn't it a tendency to weaken the variety to take four or five 

 away from the parent plant? 



A : I don't like to pot because it is a bother, but in potting the plant 

 you only take one runner for a pot, and nip off the wire beyond that, 

 and it will root much quicker. Be careful not to let them get pot bound; 

 I don't think much of potted plants. 



Q: What would be your list for the local market? 



Mr. Kellogg: I left out the whole question of varieties from my 

 paper on purpose. You say that a certain variety is a fine berry, and 

 some one will jump up and say it isn't so, because he has tried it. You 

 might succeed with one variety here and it would be no good at all some- 

 where else. 



For local market, I would set on rather heavy sandy soil, or heavy clay, 

 the Warfield. But in the Institute work I have found a great many who 

 had failed with the Warfield, because it would not root on sandy soil. 

 After I got through with the Warfield, I would set the Haviland, and the 

 Cumberland, if it can be kept in good shape and not allowed to run out. 

 For a later berry, the Greenville is the coming berry. The Enhance is a 

 good fertilizer for it, but it is a little irregular. In some localities it is not 



