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I counted up to fifty berries on one plant, but they were small. My experi- 

 ence with them is to have them in hills, keep runners off, fertilize good and 

 you will have all kinds of berries the same year. 



I got three plants of No. 3 June-bearing. From these three plants I 

 got 584 plants, which I set out last spring, three foot one way and a foot 

 a part in row. Last fall the whole bed was covered with plants so thick you 

 could not see the ground and besides I got a full crop of berries, the biggest 

 strawberries I ever saw. Not a plant missed to bear fruit, not a sign of 

 rust or blight on them. My soil is a heavy clay loam. — Frank W. Johnson, 

 Braham. 



Appropriation for the Horticultural Society. — The late State Legis- 

 lature made ari appropriation of $6,500 per annum for this society for the 

 two years beginning August 1, 1917. As heretofore, $3,000 of this appro- 

 priation is to be used for the needs of the society, and $3,500 to pay for the 

 printing of its magazine and reports. This appropriation is the same in 

 amount as that made two years ago, which at that time was sufficient for 

 the needs of the society. The cost of printing, however, has advanced mate- 

 rially, and especially in the price of paper, so that by August 1 of this year 

 there will be a considerable deficiency in the printing account, something 

 over $1,000. As the cost of printing is not likely to decline at present, the 

 expense of printing our reports will continue to increase the deficiency. 

 Just how this will be met has not yet been decided, but the Executive Board 

 of the society has the subject under consideration. Meantime the work of 

 the society will not be in any way crippled, but will go on the same way as 

 usual during the next biennial period. 



Program, 1917 Annual Meeting. — The year rolls around, already are 

 we nearer to the 1917 annual meeting than to that of 1916. In a general 

 way, the program for the coming meeting has been laid out and some mate- 

 rial secured. As a member of this society interested in what takes place 

 at the meeting if you can not attend, at least in what is published in our 

 monthly — and you know that all of the papers and discussions appearing at 

 the annual meeting are published in the monthly at some time during the 

 year — would you not like to have something to say about the program of 

 the meeting? Are there not some subjects that you would like to have pre- 

 sented at that time? Perhaps you have in mind some one whom you con- 

 sider especially fitted to present a subject that you would like to have con- 

 sidered. It may be that there is some subject pertaining to some branch 

 of horticulture that you have had under consideration and would like to 

 present yourself on that occasion. The secretary is very open-minded and 

 desirous of doing the things that please the society as far as possible, and 

 would be especially glad to receive suggestions from the membership. It 

 is not, of course, always practicable to make use of all the suggestions 

 presented, though they would never be thrown aside carelessly but given 

 full consideration. If there is no subject you care to discuss, perhaps there 

 are questions that you would like presented at the meeting for reply. The 

 secretary would be glad to receive such questions also. 



