240 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
There was very little rainfall during the first twenty-five 
days of June. Seven-tenths of an inch fell between the 2d and 
6th, but from the 6th to the 22d no rain whatever fell. On the 
22d there was .25 inches, and after the 25th of the month rain 
was quite abundant. Strawberries, generally, began to feel 
the effects of the drouth by June 17th, before the picking season 
was more than one-third through. 
It will be noticed that for the first two pickings the results 
were in favor of the non-irrigated plots, and that the yields on 
the non-irrigated plots were nearly as great as on the irrigated 
until after June 17. For the second picking (June 14), the 
two watered plots only gave eight quarts while the two not 
watered yielded twelve quarts. ‘This tends to show that irri- 
gation retards the development of the fruit and causes it to 
ripen a little later. Mr. Eddy noticed this same condition on 
his larger fields. During the first few pickings the fruit from 
the non-watered plots was noticed to be sweeter, but that from 
the watered plots were larger and ‘looked three centg per 
quart better.”’ 
On June 17th the leaves of the plants on the non-watered 
plots began to wilt quite badly and the berries to shrivel, and. 
by the 18th the leaves were so dry as to break off, and the 
unripe fruit to shrivel and stop growing. The plants on the 
unwatered plots continued to dry, the leaves began to fall, and. 
the fruit was small, dark colored, shriveled, and seedy. 
On June 24th the writer visited the fields and made the fol- 
lowing notes: ‘‘ Plants on non-irrigated plots are drying badly. 
Leaves shriveled, and many dry and dead. Fruit small, dark 
colored when ripe, and shriveled and seedy. Hulls shriveled. 
Fruit looks over-ripe when picked. The darker color is prob- 
ably due to the increased sunlight that the fruit gets, owing to 
the shriveled condition of the plants.’’ 
‘‘ Plants on the irrigated plots look fresh and vigorous; fruit 
large and abundant; much green fruit continuing to develop. 
Size of berries large, color bright. Fruit not quite as sweet as 
on the non-irrigated plots. Should judge the fruit from irri- 
gated plots would sell for two to three cents per quart more 
than that from non-irrigated.’’ 
Mr. Eddy found that the fruit from the non-irrigated plots 
had to be sold for an average of nine cents per quart while that 
