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Mr. Baldwin : The point is not to cover tliem with dirt, but 

 put them down to keep them in place and then cover them with dirt 

 after it is frozen. It' is very easy to cover them then. 



Mr. Preston McCully : I think that is a mistake about the time 

 of covering. Out in our section we aim to put down almost every- 

 thing except the King and Loudon. One fall a neighbor put down 

 the Loudon early, and I put mine down late, and that fall we had 

 particularly warm weather, and those that were put down early 

 nearly all winter-killed. They ought to be put down as late as 

 possible. I prefer not to put them down until the 20th of October. 



The Chairman: Do you tip them over or cover them? 



Mr. McCully : I put them down and cover t'hem over entirely. 



Mr. Latham : You would be afraid to put them down v^^hen the 

 leaves were on? 



Mr. McCully : No, I would not. Some commence to put them 

 down the first of October. I believe that is too soon. 



The Chairman: It would be all right to put them down just 

 to hold them ? 



Mr. McCully : Yes, that w^ould be all right. 



Mr. Older : Some people cover t'hem too deep. A gentleman 

 said he had a nice strawberry bed by spreading hay over them 

 thinly in the fall and then- covering them deep after it froze. I 

 never missed but one crop in twenty-five years. Whenever we 

 cover lightly early in the fall we never have any trouble with our 

 strawberries. Put a little hay over them before the first frost 

 comes and then after it freezes cover them deep for the winter. 

 I see everybody advises covering them when tlie ground freezes. 



Mr. Bush : I said not before the ground freezes, but after 

 the first frost comes. 



THE ADVANTAGE TO THE MINNESOTAN OF PLANTING 

 HOME GROWN STOCK. 



W. L. TAYLOR, HOWARD LAKE. 



The people who settled in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and other 

 middle states found no trouble in starting orchards from eastern 

 nursery grown stock. They could buy from almost any nursery 

 and their trees were equally at home and would grow and bear 

 fruit. But Michigan and Wisconsin settlers had more trouble to 

 grow stock purchased from^ other states. The first settlers of 

 Minnesota soon began to try eastern and southern grown trees, 

 but their failures were so total and complete that most of them gave 

 up in despair and said "We shall never raise apples in Minnesota." 

 Many of the old members will recall the words of Horace Greely 

 when he said 'T would like to live in Minnesota, but you can never 

 raise apples here." 



