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it free. The farmer is all right when he has his two rows and 

 keeps them side by side, but let him ge and set another plantation, 

 and he loses all his labor. 



Mr. Kellogg : Let him keep a record. That is because he does 

 not keep a record. 



Mr. Henry Husser : I think Prof. Shaw thinks too little of the 

 farmer. I think they have enough intelligence so they can keep 

 two rows apart. 



Mr. A. Brackett : Nine-tenths of the farmers never think of 

 labeling anything. When they come to plant a new bed, they will 

 pick out the nicest plants and plant fhem, and if they do not happen 

 to get a self-fertilizing plant they get nothing. 



Mr. Kellogg : I think it is the safest plan for farmers to plant 

 perfect varieties. There are plenty of perfect varieties, so there is 

 no need of planting pistillate. 



Mr. Underwood : Are not pistillate varieties a little better 

 producers ? 



Mr. Kellogg : They are. 



Mr. C. C. Hunter: What strawberries are the best shippers? 



Mr. Kellogg : The Dunlap and the Warfield. They can be 

 picked together and shipped together because they look alike. The 

 Brandywine is one of the best big berries, and another is the 

 Aroma ; they go together, and they are both perfect varieties. 



Prof. Shaw : I noticed Mr. Kellogg spoke very favorably of 

 the Clyde. I have taken a great liking to the Clyde, and I would 

 like to have him state the reason for his preference for the Clyde. 



Mr. Kellogg: The Clyde has some objections. In a wet sea- 

 son it rests too close to the mulching and rots, but I saw the finest 

 Clydes on a three-year-old plantation I ever saw anywhere. When 

 I first commenced to fruit it I thought I did not want anything 

 else, but it does not hold well in a wet season. 



Mr. R. A. Wright : What would you consider the best producer 

 for the market? 



Mr. Kellogg: I would plant the Aroma. 



Mr. F. M. Crosby : I would like to inquire whether they would 

 go without mulch? 



Mr. Kellogg : I would not do it. Mulch every time, and the 

 farther north you go the heavier you want to mulch. If you are 

 sure of having snow till April you don't want any other mulch. 



Mr. G. A. Anderson: Do they require heavy fertilization? 



Mr. Kellogg : Yes, give them forty loads of well rotted manure 

 to the acre, put it on the year before, and then also your ground will 

 be in better condition if you had it in potatoes the previous year. 



