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when the snow was only on a few weeks those that were laid 

 down were all right and those allowed to stand up were dead to 

 the ground. 



DISCUSSION. 



Q. What variety of strawberry do you prefer? 



A. Depends on the soil. The Crescent and the Bubach are 

 good. 



Q. What do you fertilize with? 



A. Wood ashes. 



Q. Barn manure would contain too much nitrogen, would 

 it not? 



A. Not for the Crescent. 



Q. How do you set out the plants? 



A. Set out in rows about three feet apart and nine inches in 

 the row and you have a solid mat of plants with a few small ber- 

 ries. I set mine three feet apart and two feet in the row. If they 

 are getting too thick I thin them out. 



Q. Do you use the horse? 



A. I do. Some put them seven feet apart and three or four 

 feet in the row. 



Mr. Churchill — I started out to-day to visit a friend of mine 

 here and I got behind the times about a week in regard to this 

 meeting. The first thing my friend said was I supposed you 

 would be coming up to the meeting and we were looking for 

 you. So you see how careless I am. I rem^ember the first time 

 I started out to raise strawberries I set out some less than ten 

 acres and like the woman who planted the seeds and kept dig- 

 ging them up to see if they were growing I would dig down and 

 lo and behold instead of growing up they were growing down 

 and I began to investigate and found they had no roots at all. I 

 got my ground ready and set out some more and I was surprised 

 to find how many berries I got ofT of them. The main thing to 

 start with is good plants. Of course there is a limit to the num- 

 ber to be set in a hill; if we set too many plants we get too many 

 roots in one place and they crowd themselves. So it is a question 

 just what to do; some will grow and make more plants tlian 

 others, so we have to- use diliferent management with strawber- 

 ries the same as with everything else. I set mine in sections 

 three feet and a half apart with an alley-way of a foot and a 

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