BEST THREE VARIETIES OF STRAWBRRRIES. 97 



best three, but should think they would be the Crescent, War- 

 field and Bederwood; those are the best three I can think of 

 now. That takes in at least five years. The Warfield some 

 years has dried out, but this is the first year we have missed 

 for six or seven years. 



Pres. Underwood: Any one else three varieties"? The three 

 varieties we would choose at Lake City would be the Warfield. 

 the Crescent and the Bederwood. 



Mr. Spickei-man: I had a field twelve rods square last year, 

 and along one side I had two rods wide of Princess and Jessie, 

 and from those two rods wide I got more berries than from all 

 the rest. 



Mr. L. E. Day : The three best varieties with me were the 

 Warfield, Crescent and Captain Jack. I had a fair crop this 

 year. 



Mr. Busse: I would like to ask Mr. Kellogg on what kind 

 of soil he is raising his strawberries and on what three or 

 four varieties he has realized the most money in the last twenty 

 years? 



Mr. Kellogg: He goes back too far. We never had any thing 

 better than the Wilson forty years ago. The Wilson is now 

 run out. Tne Wilson and the Michel's Early are not worth a 

 cent. I could have answered that question fifteen or twenty 

 years ago. 



Mr. Busse: Do the kinds you have at present give the same 

 satisfaction and the same money? 



Mr. Kellogg: I sat down between two rows of Enhance and 

 Vick's and picked twenty- two quarts on two and a half rods in 

 one day. 



Mr. Smith: What kind of soil? 



Mr. Kellogg: Prairie loam. 



SOILS ADAPTED TO STRAWBERRIES. 



O. M. LORD, MINNESOTA CITY. 



What soils are adapted to growing- the strawberry? "Anj^ soil that 

 will produce good corn or potatoes," has been the standing answer 

 to this question; and it is well known that corn or potatoes will sue 

 ceed on any of our rich prairie or on tiinber soils if not too wet. M5' 

 experience has been mostly confined to a sandy loatn and to an 

 alluvial soil. The sandy loam has been the more productive, as it 

 is naturally the more retentive of tnoisture and not so liable to be 

 affected by drouth. The strawberry on any soil at blossoming time 

 is peculiarl}' liable to be injured bj^ frost or by wet weather; but if 

 the soil be well drained naturally or artificially, the plant is rarely 

 hurt by frost or by wet weather at any other period of growth. In 

 ray opinion, success with the strawberry does not so luuch depend 

 upon the composition of the particular soil as upon its condition 

 and upon the varieties adapted to it; one of the mysteries of nature 

 we have not been able to solve, except by trial. 



