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growing. A soil rich in humus will do much toward sup- 

 plying the elements of plant-food needed, by rendering 

 available that which is already in the soil and preventing 

 its loss. In Kansas, the uplands having a black loam 

 with clay subsoil, are reported to give the best results. 

 Stony soils may yield good crops, but are even more ex- 

 pensive to work than with crops for which the ground is 

 plowed every year. 



Wilson found 1 that in western New York, loam soils 

 gave better results than clay, as indicated by the follow- 

 ing table: 



LOCATION 



More vigorous growth and larger fruit can be obtained 

 from the strong, moist soils of bottom-lands and valleys. 

 Such fruit may not quite equal in flavor that grown on 

 uplands but is more salable. There is always greater 

 danger from frosts and from winter injury in very severe 

 weather on low ground, except in the vicinity of large 

 bodies of water. A cool, northern exposure, less affected 

 by hot summer suns and less subject to drought, is to be 

 preferred, though by no means necessary. A closely 

 bordered basin is objectionable. Extremes of temperature 

 1 Cornell Reading-Courses, Vol. II, No. 36. 



