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of Bordeaux mixture, say three or four times early in the sea- 

 son, will prove an effectual remedy. 



J. S. Harris: In regard to hoeing- strawberries in the spring, 

 my experience and my observation have both convinced me that 

 it is dangerous to put the hoe or cultivator between the rows of 

 strawberries in the spring. If you run a cultivator in the straw- 

 berry patch on an afternoon of those days preceding a hard 

 frost the next day you will find them done for; and if you run a 

 cultivator through before the blossom they will not fertilize. 

 Now I am convinced that the failure of the strawberry crop 

 spring before last was on account of cultivation. I was in a 

 patch where there should have been one hundred quarts a day 

 picked, but there were not ten. My neighbor had nearly a 

 total failure of strawberries last spring, and he kept his men 

 and women at work in the patch hoeing and working up the 

 soil; on my place where we did not even pull the weeds we had 

 the best crop in fifteen years. 



Wm. Somerville: I ask for information. I am going around 

 trying to induce farmers to raise fruit, and especially strawber- 

 ries, as we know they can be raised all over Minnesota, and I 

 recommend some six varieties that would do best from the 

 farmers' standpoint. These farmers do not want too many var- 

 ieties, and I have made a selection here of some six varieties 

 that I recommend to farmers, and the information I want is 

 that if there is anything better I want to know it, for the farmer 

 wants the very best he can get. I have recommended the Cres- 

 cent, Jessie, May King, Captain Jack, Warfield and Bubach. 

 Now if there is anything better I can recommend to farmers, I 

 want to know it. 



M. Cutler: I believe by setting two rows of Crescent and 

 one row of Glendale farmers will get more berries than from 

 any other two kinds of the whole list. I know this from my 

 own experience on low land and high land. I have beds that 

 have produced three large crops in succession without any cul- 

 tivation after the first year. From about one-fourth acre on 

 low land I have obtained nearly one thousand quarts three suc- 

 cessive years, and that small patch was not cultivated after the 

 first year. The Glendale is a very hardy variety and holds its 

 own until the berry has exhausted itself. 



Geo. J. Kellogg: With us the Glendale has become almost 

 a failure. It produces a large berry with a great deal of straw 

 around the butt end of it. The calyx is the biggest part of the 

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