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they ever saw. I could have sold many more than I raised, as I 

 received orders for them from other places on the line of the Erie 

 railroad. If the season should prove favorable another year, as it has 

 during the past, I shall expect a third more at least, for the runners are 

 filling up the space between the rows so that I cannot run a cultiva- 

 tor between them without tearing up a great many plants, but the 

 weeds must be kept out or there will be but little fruit. The Wilson 

 is as good a berry as I wish to eat, but some prefer a sweeter one; 

 those who do can find such in the list of popular berries. But he 

 who produces a better strawberry, taking everything into considera- 

 tion, can make a fortune out of it just as easy as he who produces a 

 better sour apple than the Greening, or Red Astrachan. 



I. N. Nutter, East Bridgewater, Mass., writes that Rev. T. O, 

 Paine, of Joppa village, set out in the spring of 1868 eighty plants 

 of the " Wilson " variety in hills twenty-two inches apart, first 

 trenching the soil to the depth of two feet or more and applying a 

 liberal quantity of stable manure. The runners were kept pinched 

 ofi:' and the ground was mulched in August with a thin coating of 

 newly-cut fine grass, and again at the approach of winter with a 

 good cover of swale hay. He picked by actual measurement ninety- 

 one quarts of nice strawberries, an average of one and one-eighth 

 quarts per plant. The saine number of plants in another bed, 

 treated in the same manner, but not manured, yielded less than half 

 the quantity mentioned. The writer of the above thinks the success 

 noted may encourage those persons who, living in towns or city 

 suburb, neglect to get a bed of this delicious fruit because their 

 jjlats are small. 



Measuring Manure. 



IMr. F. B. Taylor, Bayley's Mills, Jefterson county, Florida. — We 

 -plant corn here at such distances as will give 2,3-iO hills per acre. I 

 wish to compost cotton seed, &c., this fall to manure corn in the hill 

 next spring, so as to give each hill two quarts of the compost, about 

 150 bushels per acre. The manure for each acre I wish composted 

 in the middle thereof. Now what should be the dimensions of each 

 pile ? I haven't a library for reference. 



A cubic foot of solid half rotted manure weighs about fifty-six 

 pounds, requiring about thirty-six cubic feet to the ton. In measuring 

 manure of bulk it is safe enough to call a cubic foot a bushel. 



Adjourned. 



