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and we have quite a bit of seed for planting in the spring. I am 

 going to work it pretty hard another year. 



Prof. Waldron : We have some notes on Minnesota No. 3 

 as compared with fourteen other varieties of strawberries for 

 the year 1916. It was a poor year, very wet, a cold spring, and 

 the highest yield we got was at the rate of 4,000 quarts per acre. 

 That is very big for strawberries, as you know. The Minnesota 

 No. 3 led the list, at 4,042 quarts per acre; Haverland, second, 

 3,742 ; Perfection, third, 3,358 quarts ; Brandywine, fourth, 3,232 ; 

 Fendall, 3,000 ; Warfield, 2,851, down to Dunlap . 



Mr. Clausen : I would like to ask if Mr. Haralson has any 

 reports about No. 1017. 



Mr. Haralson : No reports especially. The only point I 

 heard about it was that some people claimed it had rust and was 

 not satisfactory on that account. Of course, this year was 

 rather trying, and it might do better another year. As far as 

 fruiting is concerned it has given satisfactory results. 



Mr. M'Broom : There are quite a number who have diffi- 

 culty with the 1017. It is rather erratic. I know with me 

 quite a lot of my plants didn't make a runner, and others spread 

 over a lot of ground. It is a matter of soil and location. I 

 would like to know what location is suitable for that plant. 



Mr. Gardner: I want to say that I set out some of the 

 1017 this spring on my place, set them out in a patch where I 

 had fifteen or twenty other kinds. I would take people through 

 there, and there was not a time that ever I took anyone down 

 across that row but what we found nice berries on those little 

 plants. Quite a number spoke about having blight; I haven't 

 had a single case of it. 



The President : Mr. Gardner has rather a heavy black soil. 



Mr. Gardner: Where these berries are it is first class 

 limestone soil, and where that patch stands it is down ten feet 

 to solid rock. All that land is limestone soil except on the east 

 side it slopes off into black soil prairie, so we have a few acres 

 of black soil prairie land. There wasn't any blight on that 

 plant. There is only one thing that didn't strike me favorably. I 

 don't exactly like the looks of the berries — the shape of them. 

 If they were as large as they are and shaped like the Progressive 

 I would like them better. 



Mr. Clausen : I have been growing it for a couple of years, 

 the 1017, and I haven't found it bothered with rust at my place. 

 I had it on different soils, but I think the way to grow it is in 

 hills. I have grown some in hills this summer, and they gave 

 me lots of fruit, probably more than most of them. I feel like 

 saying to the horticulturists here, don't be too quick to condemn 

 a new kind of fruit until you try it thoroughly. That is the 

 trouble with a good many of us, if they don't do good one year 

 we give them up. I want you to try until you are sure. 



Mr. Kellogg : My boy had this 1017 growing for two years, 

 but the last year the drouth was so severe that all his small fruit 

 failed, and I cannot make a good report, but from what I saw 

 at the farm it is ahead of anything we have ever had. I have 

 great faith in it. 



