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its crop well, lasting throughout the season. The Kyle is a light colored, 
not very acid berry. It has given a good crop, nearly all of good size. The 
Clyde is one of the best market berries, although rather soft for a long 
shipment. Otherwise it is a very good commercial berry. Splendid is one 
of the best. It ships well and bears from the earliest to the latest of the berry 
season. 1,000 is one of Crawford’s leading berries. It is dark, solid and 
very good. Louis Gauthier is a French berry, almost white, of high flavor, 
and a very fine berry. Jewett’s Seedling bears a large, well colored fruit. 
It shows a little soft, but gives much promise.” 
Questions in regard to watering, brought out the fact that Mr. Jewett 
has an irrigating plant. He pumps the water by means of a gasoline engine 
from a lake into a reservoir, distributing it through three inch pipes by 
means of ditches. His soil is a black loam, with a good mixture of sand and 
a clay subsoil. From a 4% inch cylinder, with a 10-inch stroke, he can 
pump from 1,000 to 1,200 barrels a day. His strawberry patch has had 
two waterings this season. The best time to water first is when the fruit 
begins to form. ‘ 
In reply to the question, what varieties are the best for Minnesota, 
Wm. Lyons said, “The Clyde yields the best; the Enhance stands the drouth 
best.” Gus Johnson has found the Dr. Stamen and Brandywine doing the 
best for him. ; 
Professor Shaw asked what could be recomfmended for a farmer who 
wanted to raise but one variety, a variety that is hardy, strong and vigorous, 
a self-fertilizer, and prolific. The Bederwood, Splendid and Brandywine 
were mentioned by different ones. Mr. Harris would get out of the diffi- 
culty by having all three of these,—the Bederwood because of its prolific 
yield, Splendid because of its long bearing season and ability to endure 
drouth, and the Brandywine because it has such a fine flavor and is the best 
for canning purposes. 
Mr. J. M. Underwood, in response to a call from the president, gave in 
his usual interesting and forceful style, an account of a recent trip to Cali- 
fornia. What he had to say about the orange crop and about irrigation 
was of the most interest to horticulturists. The orange crop is harvested 
from the middle of December to the middle of April. He was there to see 
this fruit brought in great four-horse wagon loads, and when packed filling 
train after train, answering the query he had made on his outward journey: 
why so many lines of railroad over the desert? Those oranges that come 
from the coast regions all have to be washed, as the fruit being more or less 
damp from the fogs gathers dust and becomes so black and grimy that it 
is in no fit condition to ship until cleaned. Several fruit farms are watered 
from one irrigating plant. One that was noticed in particular had a well 
135 feet deep, with sixty feet of water. The well was six inches in diameter. 
The water is pumped through a five-inch cylinder, extending eight feet in 
the water, at the rate of 2,500 gallons an hour. The owner of the plant gets 
twenty-five cents an hour for furnishing the water. Deciduous tree fruits 
do not need artificial irrigation as much as the orange and other citrous 
plants. 
The points of greatest interest to Mr. Underwood, in addition to those 
mentioned, were the mountains, with a special trip up Mt. Wilson, the sea 
gardens viewed from Catalina island, where one can see the curious and 
