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accurate account of the berries sold from one-third of an acre. Fif- 

 teen hundred quarts were picked, which sold in our home market 

 for $165, and in addition to this about 5,000 plants were dug from 

 the same patch in the spring. This year the same patch, with an 

 addition of about ten square rods, produced 1,400 quarts, which sold 

 for $130, the price averaging about 2 cents per quart less this year 

 than 1902. 



Mr. Barnes : When do you put on your mulch ? 



Mr. Anderson : Just about the time it is frozen hard enough 

 so the wagon will not cut through. 



Mr. Alfred Hawkins : I would like to ask Mr. Anderson what 

 he uses in preparing the ground. Last summer I plowed my ground 

 and sowed it to millet. I plowed it under this fall and intend to 

 plant it to strawberries next spring. 



One-third acre of strawberries on place of G. A. Anderson, at Renville, yielding 

 in T903 over 2,000 qts. Several thousand plants dug from it the previous j-ear. 



Mr. Anderson : I have had no experience with millet as a crop 

 before strawberries, so I cannot say how it would do. 



Mr. Gardner : What variety do you fertilize with ? 



Mr, Anderson: The Warfield. 



Mr. J. A. Shephard : I have sowed millet the last two seasons 

 before planting. It chokes out all the weeds and is a great benefit. 



Mr. Elliot : Do you cut the top ofif or plow it under ? 



Mr. Shepard : I cut it off. 



Mr. Elliot: Millet is a gross feeder, and it will injure the fer- 

 tility of the soil. 



Mr. Shephard : Before sowing the millet I give the ground a 

 heavy coat of manure. 



Mr. Geo. J. Kellogg (Wis.) : I wish to ask Mr. Anderson 

 whether he restricts his plants in the row and what varieties he rec- 

 ommends for planting. 



