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early fruits — early apples like Yellow Transparent — that get upon 

 some of the northern markets a little earlier than others. , . :.■ 



I rather think that this year has been a little discouraging so 

 far as the development of commercial apple growing in ;the state 

 is concerned, on account of very untoward conditions arising from a 

 number of causes, almost all of which are blanketed under the name 

 of the European war. A man told, me that 50,000 bushels of good 

 apples have frozen in West Virginia recently, but they were inferior 

 fruit. 



It ought to be the object of the Horticultural Society of this 

 state to disseminate general knowledge and practice relative to the 

 care of fruit and fruit trees. We ought to have our people com- 

 monly to understand these things and how to make their orchards 

 of the most value to them. I Avant to call your attention to the fact 

 that this is the problem that the College of Agriculture has set, and 

 I hope we shall be able to do a more extensive work along that 

 line. I wanted to make this preliminary statement relative to the 

 Ijroblem in order to start us on our way in the work this spring. 

 Down in western Kentucky is one of the greatest fruit growing 

 sections of Kentucky. In certain sections of the highlands down 

 there and in certain sections of the lowlands there are great fruit 

 growing areas. It is not limited to any special section of the 

 country so far as the state of Kentucky is concerned. 



We have had some representative every year from Warren 

 County to speak about the strawberry growing interests there. 

 Next year there will be 225 carloads shipped out. Eight years ago 

 there were only fifteen carloads shipped. The Warren County As- 

 sociation has the reputation of being the greatest co-operative society 

 in the United States. I take pleasure in introducing to you Mr. 

 Morgan Hughes, who is connected with the extension work of the 

 college here, and is stationed at Bowling Green, in co-operation with 

 the Western State Normal School. He will speak on "The Growing 

 and Marketing of Strawberries." 



THE GROWING AND MARKETING OF STRAWBERRIES. 



Morgan Hughes, Bowling Green, Ky. 



I do not profess to be an expert in anything. I am just a farmer 

 who has been trying to learn how to grow strawberries. In this 

 little discussion, I hope you will ask me any questions you like. I 

 will' try to tell you what we have done in Warren County in grow- 

 ing strawberries, and probably a little history, of this Strawberry 

 Association might be interesting to show you how very small things 

 gradually grow into importance. 



Warren County, like most of Kentucky, has always been recog- 

 nized as a place where you can grow strawberries. We started in 



