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A Member: Do you set the plants in rows, and how far 

 apart ? 



Mr. R.\ce: If I were going to set Bubachs, I would set them 

 4 feet apart one way and about 12 inches the other; Mammoth 

 Beauties, 15 to 18; Brandywine, 20 to 24. Those kinds that 

 produce a great many plants ought to be set far apart. I aim 

 to have a row about two and a half feet wide, a matted row. 

 That w'idth leaves about a foot to walk in. The Mammoth 

 Beauties will sometimes come so close together that pickers that 

 are anxious to get the most quarts will step on a good many of 

 the green berries. 



A Member : What size crates do you use, and where do you 

 get them? 



Mr. Race : I buy of my groceryman when he has the face 

 to ask me to bu}'. Sometimes he gives them to me; in fact, 

 he has had so many of mine that he owes me. 



yiR. Flight : You say you raised about ten thousand quarts 

 on an acre and a half. Does the Mammoth Beauty do better 

 than the Wilson and those old sorts ? We think down our way 

 four to five thousand quarts is quite a yield. I have read in 

 the papers of where they got six hundred bushels off an acre; 

 but two hundred is an awful big crop. 



Another ]\Iember : I was a little surprised that you put the 

 yield so high. I consider four to five thousand quarts to the 

 acre is a good yield. 



Mr. Race : \\'ell, sir, some men w'ill lie about their berry 

 crop. You don't raise one acre at a time. When you keep a 

 dozen cows, they don't do quite as well as when you keep only 

 one and she gets all the care and feed — do you ? 



A Member: Have you any plants to sell — of Mammoth 

 Beauty ? 



Mr. Race: I don't aim to sell plants, although if a friend 

 wants a few I don't refuse.* I don't raise plants to sell. 



A Member: What do you recommend for mulching plants? 



]\Ir. R.\.ce : You can use hay. If you sow corn thick enough, 

 it would not be too coarse. Let it grow not too high; don't 

 put it on too thick. Oat straw is just the thing. 



A Member : How do you set the plants ? 



Mr. R.\ce: My land is not very heavy, nor is it light, but 

 we have stones. That is whv I don't use Allen's tools for 



