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mense amount of fruit and frequently failing to mature, 

 matured all its fruit when grown in the shade, although 

 it had not done so in the sun. This is of interest — com- 

 ing back to the subject of the rust — to show that we must 

 look as far as possible to the cultivation and care necessitated 

 by the different varieties. We must also look to the resisting 

 varieties; but we will not find any that are entirely resistant to 

 it. There are some varieties desirable to be grown, with which 

 it will be necessary to use the fungicide. 



I would like to add just one thing more. I am in favor of 

 growing strawberry beds, and fruiting them two years. I favor 

 that plan. I notice this much, if you allow those old leaves to 

 remain on a strawberry bed and try to renew it by just letting 

 those leaves remain, and, perhaps, cutting out a little, you will 

 not have good success. The disease we have spoken of will 

 spread badly on the bed. If you will take a mowing machine 

 and cut all those loaves off and burn them, you will find that 

 the new growth that will come on the bed will be almost as 

 healthy as a perfectly new bed. If properly manured and cared 

 for, in the course of the year they will look like newly set 

 plants. You can burn the leaves right on the bed. It only 

 makes a light covering, and the weeds and leaves can be burned 

 off without any injury to the new growth that comes up, and 

 the new growth will be perfectly healthy. In this way you 

 will have destroyed the centers of infection on the leaves. 



Mr. B. C. Yancey, Edina Mills: It is my plan in renewing a 

 bed to plo V little strips right along the bed about a foot 

 wide, which I manure, and then put on the cultivator, start it 

 going and work it up as well as I can. Then I take a hoe and 

 go over those rows and cut out the weeds and about two-thirds 

 of the plants. The plants that are left will grow in good shape. 



Mr. J. A. Sampson: I am very glad that Professor Green 

 brought up this idea of burning the beds over. When Mr. 

 Elliot spoke to me last season about it, I was afraid to under- 

 take it, being afraid of injuring my bed. Consequently, I left 

 the straw on the ground, and it was a great annoyance in get- 

 ting the bed ready for another season. I would like to hear 

 from others upon that same question. 



Mr. E. J. Cutts, Howard Lake: I would like to ask Profes- 

 sor Green what time of the year be would do that mowing. 



Prof. Green: Just as soon as you get the crop gathered. 

 The sooner, the better. 



