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EVENING SESSION. 



The program was opened by the reading of Mr. Kellogg's paper 

 on "Strawberries," by Assistant Secretary Stearns. The paper is 

 as follows: 



STRAWBEBBY EXPEBIENCE. 



By Geo. J. Kellogg, Janesville, Wis. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 



My first experience among strawberries was in the meadows 

 about Fulton, N. Y,, which did not vary much from that of Wis- 

 consin, which began at Kenosha, 1835, about a tea cup full for a 

 half days' hunt, about the size of peas; but was'nt they good; what 

 better now? 



The thousand miles traveled and three years spent in California 

 does not recall a single wild strawberry among its mountain mines. 

 Only one feast of wild grapes on the Sacremento and one of choke 

 cherries on the western slope of the coast range, were all the wild 

 fruits (except the Grizzly Bear berry of the chaparral, and the 

 seed of the Mountain Pine) that I saw in that land of gold, which 

 now excels in choice fruits. After three years of hard tack and 

 scurvy, no wonder I took the strawberry fever on my return to 

 Kenosha, in 1852, since which time I have raised strawberries all 

 the way from the size of a pea to larger than pumpkins in June, 

 and all the way from nothing to more than double the ordinary 

 yield of potatoes to the acre. 



