MILLER (B.) 
MKniUM TO LATE. The third year of selection 
and restriction shows tliis to be a most vigorous and re- 
liable variety. It has attracted much attention both by 
the large number of Iiip berries of higli quality and vigor 
of foliage that it will succeed on all soils. 
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up SO there will be no waste. Tliis resolvent 
is the o.xygcn of the air. Countless millions 
of iTiicroscopic insects on which plants depend 
for ])reparins their food are in the ground. 
Our own bodies are the same way. Every 
corpuscle of blood contains a living insect and 
our flesh is full of them. Don't get frightened 
about it, for neither we nor the plants could 
live if they were not there. These insects must 
have oxygen and so passages are provided by 
which the air can pass freely through the 
ground. 
When it rains, the drops of water beat the 
surface into a thin, slimy mortar and when it 
dries down into a crust the air cannot get 
through and then the food elements begin 
changing to a form not soluble and the insects 
get sleepy and the plants slow down in their 
work of body building and so we break up the 
crust with the cultivator, the air rushes in, the 
bacteria wake up and goes to business and the 
plants begin to grow very tast. 
KLONDIKE (B). 
MEDIUM EARLY. We classed it as extra early 
last season, but think it should be hitched along just 
a little. Since fruiting time there has been a big call 
for it which confirms my own opinion that it will prove 
popular. Second year of selection. 
Movement of Water in the Soil. 
Then again we must keep the water in the 
soil. Now, cultivating does not put a drop of 
water into the ground, but it does keep that 
already there from getting away. When the 
rain comes it runs down the little openings 
between the soil grains. Gravitation keeps 
pulling it down until every grain is surround- 
ed with a thin film of water. Just drop some 
small gravel stones (m a cloth saturated with 
water and see it quickly draw up by molecular 
attraction and wet the little stone all over. 
This is what we call moist soil. When it is 
saturated the air passages are full of water and 
the plants cannot grow, but never mind, if the 
subsoil is porous it will soon be relieved of 
this surplus by going down deeper. 
Now begins the upward llow of water.. 
These air passages are very small so that only a 
very thin film of water can surround each 
grain and this makes molecular or capillary at- 
traction very strong and so the water moves 
u|) quite rapidly to the surface. It climbs up 
just like the oil in a lamp wick. It is not the 
fire that lifts the oil, but capillary passages in 
the wick. You notice if the wick is too loose. 
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