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ordinary conditions and is inex- 
pensive compared with the other 
plan. 
How long may strawberry 
beds be kept fruiting without re- 
newal, hill system? 
A. The strawberry plant is per- 
ennial and theoretically it should 
fruit indefinitely. While the plants 
might, by exercising extraordin- 
ary care, live several years, it will 
be found that the “hill” plants 
will not yield profitable crops 
much longer than by the matted 
row plan, three or four years. 
Punishment to Fit the Crime. 
Why not take citizenship away 
from those whose words and acts 
show them to be violating their 
oaths of allegiance? America 
took these people into the nation- 
al family. It gave them the 
rights for which thousands of 
Americans died and suffered in 
the past. This was done with the 
understanding that these new citi- 
zens would defend those rights 
and hand them on. 
That citizenship was not given 
to be used to destroy the rights of 
democracy or to give aid to the 
autocracy from which the people 
of this country fled and against 
which they have fought for a cen- 
tury. Those who in this time of 
crisis refuse to work and fight for 
democracy prove their unfitness to 
enjoy citizenship. 
Citizenship is a privilege not a 
right. Taking it away from those 
who have abused the privilege is 
making the punishment fit the 
crime. 
Such a punishment would curb 
the disloyalty of those who make 
political capital out of their anti- 
Americanism. Those leaders of 
Wisconsin Pro-Germanism who 
first counted noses to see whether 
it would pay to exploit the race 
hatred and un-Americanism they 
cultivate, would .find their politi- 
cal capital confiscated if their citi- 
zenship was taken away. Even 
those native born Americans who 
are seeking political profit from 
race hatred and disloyalty would 
be discouraged if they understood 
that naturalized voters who fol- 
lowed them would lose their right 
of citizenship. 
If those naturalized citizens 
who are seeking to trade in this 
treasonable market were certain 
that they could never realize then- 
political profits it is probable that 
many of them would lose their in- 
terest in the success of the Kaiser. 
Wisconsin fa (no tic fress Ass’n. 
Opening Up the Fruit Farm 
D. E. Bingham, at Minn. Society 
Convention 
Let us take it for granted that 
your Secretary in putting this 
topic on the programme, as ne d.d, 
had reference more particularly 10 
the tree fruit farm. While the 
same conditions apply in many in- 
stances, in some they differ. For 
instance, strawberries and some of 
the other small fruits will grow 
and do well on good orchard land 
and will also gr.,w well on land not 
good orchard land. 
It seems to me one of the first 
points to consider in opening up 
the fru't fa m is selection of 
the soil, for this> is a long time in- 
vestment and the soil must have a 
good foundation. Ti.ere is danger 
of disappointment if the subsoil is 
too sandy, or too wet, a hard-pan, 
etc. Trees will not do well for 
long on soil of such character. We 
prefer a good clay loam with a 
good clay subsoil of such a nature 
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Our bulbs are all our own 
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as to insure good drainage. If we 
could have some gravel or lime rock 
in the subsoil all the better. 
Suppose we have such a soil, we 
have oilier faAs to consider also 
before it is a good orchard site. 
Air drainage is important. There 
should be nothing to obstruct the 
free movement of the air and the 
site should have sufficient elevation 
to insure good air drainage. 
The soil shoo'd not be too rich in 
nitrogm. Land that would pro- 
