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over it with the lump crusher; then mark it out with a marker 

 which marks eight rows at a bout ; the teeth are three feet, 

 apart. This makesa furrow deep enough to set the plants. I 

 then dug up good healthy plants and set them about eighteen 

 inches apart in the row, spreading the roots each way in the 

 row, then pushed the earth around them and pressed down 

 quite hard. I marked the rows three feet apart and set every 

 other row, which brings the plants eighteen inches apart in the 

 row, and the rows six feet apart. This bed run so as to form 

 a solid mat, as your commiittee kuows, too thick I think, and 

 so set them seven feet this year to give them more room. I did 

 not cover them last Winter, but think it better to cover as 

 the frost hove them some. This Spring I put on about 850 

 pounds of Bradley's phosphate, broadcast. Will now give you 

 the cost of raising them as near as I can : 



Cost of getting the land ready to set plants $5 00 



Setting plants 4 00 



Care of bed after planting 60 00 



350 lbs. Bradley's phosphate 7 00 



Cost of bed $76 00 



I sold $25.00 v/orth of beans from what I had planted be- 

 tween the strawberries, which, taken from the cost of the bed, 

 $76.00, leavfcis the cost of bed up to bearing, $51.00. There 

 were 400U baskets of berries sold, which averaged 10 cents per 

 basket, after paying for picking. It was a verj' bad season, 

 the rain spoiling more than 1000 baskets, I think, many of the 

 Iberries rotting before they ripened. 



PANIEL PHILLIPS, 



