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on top of the ground, so that when the strawberry patch is 

 finished we change it to the raspberries or gooseberries. 



Mr. Gardner: You have got it so you can shift it easily 

 from one place to the other? 



Mr. Rasmussen : Yes. 



Mr. Gardner : Have you had any experience with overhead 

 irrigation ? 



Mr. Rasmussen : I have not. The Skinner overhead system 

 is better and more practical, but it costs considerably more 

 money. 



Mr. Kellogg: How many acres have you irrigated from 

 that pump? 



Mr. Rasmussen: One acre and a quarter of strawberries 

 and two of raspberries. 



Mr. Kellogg : What power is that engine ? 



Mr. Rasmussen : Horse and a half engine. 



Mr. Brackett : In making your plant selections, do you find 

 those individual plants remaining constant in the production of 

 runners? 



Mr. Rasmussen : No, sir, but I think I can see improvement 

 in the strain. I do not find as many of the plants that have too 

 many small crowns. 



Mr. Brackett: Do you spray? 



Mr. Rasmussen: Yes, sir, we spray once with bordeaux 

 mixture when the first blossoms appear. 



A Member : How high up is the tank? 



Mr. Rasmussen: We have a 25 foot trestle. It is on 

 the highest point of our land. We have to figure to have a 

 twenty foot pressure, anyway. 



Mr. Kellogg: How would you work it on ten or twenty 

 acres? 



Mr. Rasmussen: You would have to have a better well, 

 to begin with. 



Mr. Brackett: Those plants you have then are pedigreed 

 plants you raise from the runners ? 



Mr. Rasmussen: I do not know how I am going to get 

 the pedigree. 



Mr. Brackett: I know of some people who are advertis- 

 ing perigreed plants, and I was at a meeting in which that 

 was discussed. There was a gentleman there who had been in 

 the strawberry business a great many years, and he said he 

 got some of those pedigreed plants and planted them. He 

 also planted some Dunlaps that had been grown in an old 

 orchard and had been neglected for ten or fifteen years, and 

 he took out some of these plants and planted them beside the 

 pedigreed plants, and he couldn't see any difference — and I 

 don't think there is the least difference. A Wealthy apple tree 

 is a Wealthy apple tree anywhere in the United States, because 

 it is the whole tree that Peter Gideon originated. A Dunlap 

 strawberry plant is a part of the first Dunlap that was ever 

 grown. It has been produced by an offset, and it is a part of the 



