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month of October for both the strawberry and this cover 

 crop, and the cover crop will take it first and the strawberry 

 suffer. 



MR. WHEELEE : That is right . 



^IR. TAYLOR: Under some conditions the cover crop 

 growth of both the oats and barley is not sufficient to 

 thoroughly protect the strawberry plants from the freezing 

 and the thawing that will take place in early spring. 



MR. AVHEELER: I do not advise it entirely, although 

 we find our soil very heavy and tliere is no danger of the 

 robbing of the soil of its moisture. 



MR. JENKS: I might say I have been using :\lr. Wheel- 

 er's suggestions in my raspberries, blackberries, and cur- 

 rants, but carrying it one step further and planting Canad- 

 ian field peas to get some Legumes, (the field peas.) Our 

 difficulty has been serious, to add nitrogen to the berries the 

 following spring. 



Any further questions? 



.MR. :\facDOUGAL: I world like to ask Mv. Taylor what 

 he recommends for a trellis for raspberries and gooseberries. 



MR. TAYLOR: Conditions differ decidedly in New 

 York State. In Western New York you will scarcely find 

 the trellis. In Eastern New York in the Hudson Valley you 

 will find the trellis the rule. This is partly due to the fact 

 that in the Hudson Valley particularly they grow a number 

 of small fruits on the same ground and in order to keep them 

 within liounds they use the trellis and the rule in the Hudson 

 Valley wht»re they use the trellis is a series of posts with 

 either one wire to which are tied the canes, or with two 

 wires side by side, the canes being supported between the 

 two wires, which are fastened together at intervals to keep 

 them from spreading. 



:\IR. JENCKS : :\Ir. Chenoweth and myself had the 

 pleasure of going through the Hudson Valley last summer 

 viewing raspl)erries at the height of the season and came 

 back impressed Avith the desirability of staking all our red 

 raspl)erries. and as they were getting a fine (luality berry 



