62 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



President Underwood: Has any one a remedy to suggest to 

 Mr. West for strawberry rust? 



Mr. West: All the strawberries in my section are the same 

 way. Mr. Danforth told me his looked just the same way mine 

 did. Mr. Kellogg told me I might get a crop of berries, but 

 he advised me to put on the Bordeoux mixture in the spring. 



Mr. Brackett: If I talk too much some one pull me down. 

 In regard to the frost. I was reading an article sometime ago in 

 reference to a method used in France for preventing frost. 

 The night you expect frost, take a kettle of coal tar and have 

 a pan hung just below the kettle of tar, and puncture the pan 

 with small holes: then start a drop or two and set fire to it, and 

 that burning in the pan will dissolve the tar and that will make 

 a continual fire and spread a cloud of smoke over the planta- 

 tion which will keep off the frost. The article I read spoke as 

 though they used it a good deal in France when they expected 

 frost. If there is anything in it, I think it would be worth 

 trying. 



Mr. C. L. Smith: I read that article too. I put my kettle of 

 tar out and set it on fire, and it made a column of thick black 

 smoke, and as near as I can guess it was about two hundred feet 

 high, just a straight black column of smoke, and I didn't get a 

 cloud, and the frost did kill them. (Laughter). 



Mr. S. D. Richardson: I had an experience in northern Illi- 

 nois about four years ago. We expected a frost, and as there 

 were plenty of old roots and stumps about we were up at three 

 o'clock building fires. We had lots of fires through the orch- 

 ard and a big smoke. There was a limb hanging out overhead 

 and it was frozen solid, and I made ap my mind when there is 

 a heavy frost smoke will nothelp matters worth a hill of beans. 

 When it gets down to freezing in Minnesota, you may as well 

 give it up. 



Mr. Smith : This year I had a lot of old stumps and grubs, 

 and I nearly surrounded the orchard in order to get my smoke 

 over it, and I piled on old slough grass that had been used for 

 mulching. There was no wind and the smoke would go right 

 straight up, and the frost came anyway and killed the straw- 

 berries. 



