STRAWBERRY CULTURE ON A LARGE SCALE. IOQ. 



point they have abandoned fruit growing for something else. 



Mr. McColly: Do they think it has become less profitable? 



Mr. Herbst : Xo, but they think some other business would be 

 more profitable situated as they are. 



Mr. Taylor : Do you practice irrigation ? 



Mr. Herbst : No, sir ; we do not. 



Mr. A. K. Bush : Do you find less trouble with cutworms and 

 white grubs in fall than in spring plowing? 



Mr. Herbst : I do not know that much can be saved by plowing 

 in the fall. 



Mr. McColly: How often do you cultivate in the summer? 



Mr. Herbst : Sometimes twice a week, sometimes once. We 

 always cultivate immediately after a rain. 



Mr. McColly : Do you ever use a weeder ? 



Mr. Herbst : We used the Breed's Weeder one year but did 

 not like it. 



Mr. McColly : Would you not get better results by taking the 

 covering off from the strawberries until they color and laying it 

 up between the rows? 



Mr. Herbst : Do vou mean take it off and then put it on again ? 



Mr. McColly : Yes. sir. 



Mr. Herbst : I think for the results you would obtain it would 

 not pay you to do it. 



Mr. Colly: Is it not a fact that the ground will be hard and 

 the vines will not produce so well? 



Mr. Herbst : That might be true on clay soil. 



Mr. R. A. Wright : I have never found ground that is mulched 

 becomes hard. 



Mr. R. H. L. Jewett : Don't you find it to be the case that along 

 the row next to your mulch you have the best berries? 



Mr. Herbst : ' Yes, sir. 



Mr. Jewett : Is that not an argument in favor of mulch being 

 as good as cultivation? 



Mr. Herbst: I should think so. It was stated a while ago 

 that larger berries were found on the outside than in the center of 

 the row. The plants are not so thick there. 



Mr. Clarence Wedge : W T hat do you think of irrigation ? 



Mr. Herbst : I saw it practiced only once. 



Mr. Wedge : I understood there was a man at Sparta who had 

 an irrigating plant. 



Mr. Herbst : He used it only once and never had any use for 

 it after that. 



Mr. A. J. Philips (Wis.) : They were irrigating a plantation 

 at Angelo one year. They had an artesian well. I did not know 

 but what you might be familiar with the results. 



Mr. Herbst : I do not remember of hearing of any great re- 

 sults from irrigation. There was an irrigating plant put in there 

 one year, but they never had an occasion to use it. 



Mr. Wedge : ' There was a question of what you did with poor 

 pickers ? 



Mr. Herbst : Fire them, let them go. 



