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Mrs. O. C. Gregg: We have not had any trouble so far. 



Pres. Underwood: Did you have any strawberries this year? 



Mrs. Gregg: We have a couple of rows and we had several 

 hundred quarts of berries. 



Pres, Underwood: I understood Mr, Gregg had considerable 

 strawberries, and they did better out there with that treatment 

 than they did here with the treatment we gave them. 



Dr. M, M. Frisselle: In what j)art of the state, I would like 

 to ask Mrs. Gregg, are they growing strawberries? 



Mrs, Gregg: In Lyon county, in the southwest part of the 

 state. 



Mr. C. L. Smith: It is the highest, driest and roughest part 

 of the state, and where the wind blows oftenest, longest and 

 strongest. (Laughter). 



Pres. Underwood: That is the most severe trial we can give 

 the strawberry, and if they can make them succeed there they 

 ought to be made to succeed in more favorable situations. 



Judge Moyer: Before we close this disussion on the straw- 

 berry I would like to hear from Mr, Dewain Cook. 



Mr. Cook: There is one point brought out in the paper read 

 by Mrs. Gregg I was glad to hear, and that is the setting of 

 staminate and pistillate varieties in the same row. I think be- 

 cause that is not done is one cause of failure. I think that 

 nurserymen when they sell strawberry plants should send them 

 in such a way that they cannot be set in any other way. 



Mr, S, J. Kellogg: Some of them are mixed badly enough 

 now. There is one particular thought in regard to the location 

 of the strawberry bed I did not hear brought out this afternoon. 

 Go on the highest ground you can find on good soil, and you 

 will not be troubled with spring frosts. 



Fruits and Health. — There is an increasing demand for fruit of 

 a g-ood quality. This is now supplied by the home market. It was 

 formerly considered a luxury to be used only on rare occasions. 

 Fruit and health are well known associates, I regard the apple as 

 staple food. Many a person has observed an increase of weight 

 during the autumn months when apples are plentiful. No one ever 

 suffered from apple dyspepsia. In fact, I believe such a condition 

 impossible. Its influence is to increase digestion. It acts ener- 

 getically upon all the digestive organs and promotes assimilation. 

 The grape is now in every yard, easy of culture, and may be ranked 

 with the milk and honey in the land of plenty. At the bedside of the 

 weak, aged and feeble, wine and grape juice are welcome agents to 

 restoration and strength. Fruit is the best food we possess, and the 

 more eaten the better we are in health as a people. M}^ patients do 

 better when they eat plenty of ripe apples, peaches, plums, cherries 

 and apricots. O. J. FARMER. 



