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A Member: Were they all of one variety? 



Mr. Hale: No; the varieties I have got in there are the 

 Glen Mary, the Climax. Pride of Cumberland and Gandy, but 

 if I was to do it again T should put in more of the Climax and 

 Gandy. 



A Member: How about the President? 



Mr. Hale : I never have grown it in the field ; I have seen 

 a few of those great big berries, but never many quarts of 

 them. 



A Member : Were your plants sprayed ? 



Mr. Hale : Yes ; ours were sprayed. 



A Member : How many times ? 



Mr. Hale : I think we sprayed them but once ; we should 

 have sprayed them more, and that spraying was done in the 

 fall. 



A Member: You didn't burn them over in the spring? 



Mr. Hale : No, we didn't. I wouldn't dare burn them 

 over, especially with this large body of mulch on there ; there 

 wasn't anything to burn off in the weed Hne ; we pulled those 

 out. I would like to take that mulch off next spring, roll it 

 up and cultivate the land if I can, and then put the mulch back. 



A Member: Did you cut back the plants after the crop 

 was taken off this year? 



Mr. Hale: No. 



A Member: Don't the plants pretty much cover the 

 ground ? 



Mr. Hale: No, not now ; I presume they will by the next 

 fruiting season, but just at present they don't; we went over 

 it this fall with a cultivator. 



The discussion of the question was then taken up by Mr. 

 A. N. Farnham, of New Haven. 



Mr. Farnham : I didn't come intending to say much 

 about strawberry culture and profits. I supposed Mr. Hale 

 would cover that ground very thoroughly. I think he has 

 ■given you a pretty fair estimate on the cost of taking care of 

 and growing an acre of berries. Possibly on some of the older 

 soils we should have added a little more of the fertilizer. It 

 is our custom to do the same as he is doing this year, to hold 



