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do the best with the least tending of any plan we ever adopted for an old 

 plantation. In the small garden patch stretch two lines and spade under 

 a strip of old plants leaving equal amount of new plants to run and cover 

 the fresh dug earth and by changing the strips each year a successful bed 

 may be continued indefinitely if you keep the right proportion of pistil- 

 late plants. 



More failures among farmers have come from obtaining plants from an 

 old bed, getting all pistillates, than from all other causes; better go or 

 send to some successful dealer and get two hundred plants, four varieties, 

 and set them two rows of a kind and between these rows your plants will 

 be pure for next spring planting. 



DISCUSSION. 



M. Pearce : I see that our friend Kellogg is opposed to pick- 

 ing on Sunday. It is all right, but I wish to state things just 

 as they are. There is a class of men who believe that the 

 Sabbath was not made for man, but that man was made for the 

 Sabbath, and they do not pick on Sunday at all. They go to 

 work on Monday morning and probably pick from forty to 

 fifty cases of rotten berries, bring them to Minneapolis 

 and sell them. Which is the greatest sin, to pick the 

 berries on Sunday or sell rotten berries? This is just the 

 condition exactly. Now when berries are ripe we have got 

 to pick them or lose money. I believe every man ought 

 to rest one day in seven, but I believe I am committing a great 

 sin when I allow what has been given me to waste, or, in 

 other words, pick them on Monday and sell a diseased article to 

 people. It produces a great amount of misery. Now this is a 

 question we ought to discuss. I have stated it exactly as it is. 



E. H. S. Dartt: I think there is another way of getting 

 around this thing without picking on Sunday. We raised quite 

 a lot of apples last season, and I had a Seventh Day man, a 

 man whose duty it was to work on Sunday and rest on Satur- 

 day. He picked the apples on Sunday and kept off the boys. 

 Now you must have some Seventh Day fellows around. [Laugh- 

 ter.] 



R. P. Lupton: I raise berries and do not market them on 

 Saturday; if they do not keep over Sunday they may rot, and 

 I do not believe we lose anything. 



J. S. Harris: I would never pick any berries on Sunday, 

 and my boys, who do the work, say the strawberry bed is much 

 better for its Sunday rest. I pick as closely as I can on Satur- 

 day, because that is the day people buy berries to do two days, 



