TiriiXTJETH AXMUAL MEETING. 



am going- to show you a few pictures that will illustrate this 

 particular package that I am trying to establish. 



There is another thing that [ want to mention, and I am 

 going to carry that on with my pictures, and that is, why wt- 

 are not getting more money out of small fruit and making it 

 cost less to produce them. We can do a great many things, 

 particularly with the strawberry, to make it cost less to pro- 

 duce. I don't believe to-day, that with the amount of ber- 

 ries which come from other states, south, west, or an\- where 

 else, into our market, we can raise the price of our berries 

 a great deal from what was established by the earlier ber- 

 ries coming in here, so it seems to me that we shall have to 

 find a way to produce them cheaper, and I have been making 

 experiments for the last few years, particularly in growing 

 strawberries, and I have found that I can ])roduce strawber- 

 ries nmch cheaper than when raised in matted rows. I am 

 e^oing to illustrate this method. Perhaps some few of you 

 here have done some work along this line yourselves. I am 

 going to show }ou a few pictures about growing strawber- 

 ries in hills, and perhaps there are some points here that I can 

 make clear. If not, I want you to ask questions freely, and 

 I will try to answer them if 1 can. 



(The hall was darkened at this point and man\ excellent 

 pictures shown upon the screen). 



Air. Wheeler made the following remarks in connection 

 with the pictures. 



The land must lie very well prejiared for growing straw- 

 berries in hills, much better, in fact, than when they are to 

 be grown in matted rows, for the plants are to occupy the 

 same ground for a number of \ears. If the land is Hal it 

 should be [ilowed in beds so that surface water will drain off 

 the plants in the winter. These beds are f/est made about 20 

 feet wide, leaving at least two o])en furrows on each side. 

 -Stable manure is one of the l;est fertilizers that can be used 

 for the strawberrw and when a])plied in the late summer or 



