[Illustration:  A typical everbearing strawberry plant as it appears in September.]

Mr. Durand:  What is the best spray for leaf-spot and rust in strawberries?

Mr. Kellogg:  Cut it out and burn it, but then there are some sprays with bordeaux mixture that will help you, but you have got to put it on before the rust shows itself.

Mr. Miller:  I would like to ask Mr. Kellogg if he advises covering the strawberries in the winter after snow has fallen and with what success?

Mr. Kellogg:  If the snow isn’t too heavy you can do it just as well after the snow comes as before, but if your snow comes early and is a foot deep you have got to wait until the January thaw before you can successfully mulch them.  That snow will protect them until it thaws off, until the ground commences to freeze.  If the snow comes early and stays late it is all the mulch you need.

Mr. Franklin:  Are oak leaves as they blow off from the trees on the strawberry beds, are they just as good to protect them as straw would be—­when there are lots of oak leaves?

Mr. Kellogg:  If you don’t put them on too thick.  You don’t want more than two inches of leaves.  If you do they will mat down and smother your plants.

Mr. Ludlow:  Have you had any experience with using cornstalks that have been fed off, just the stalk without the leaves.  Is that sufficient for a winter protection without the straw or leaves?  I put on mine just to cover them.  They are four inches apart one way and then across it the other way so as to hold it up and not get them smothered.

Mr. Kellogg:  That is all right.  I have covered with cornstalks.

Mr. Ludlow:  Would it be policy to leave that on and let the strawberries come up through, to keep them clean?

Mr. Kellogg:  If you get the stalks on one way and haven’t them covered too thick the other way, leave them on; the strawberries will come through.

Mr. Gowdy:  I would like to ask Mr. Kellogg what he thinks of planting different varieties together.

Mr. Kellogg:  It is a good plan.  I spoke of Dunlap and Warfield.  The Warfield is a pistillate.  If you plant all Warfields you get no fruit.  If you plant all Dunlap it will bear well but it will do better alongside of a pistillate, or it will do better alongside of some other perfect.  It will do better to plant two or four kinds.  They used to ask me what kinds of strawberries I wanted, and what was the best one kind.  I told them I wanted six or eight in order to get the best kind.  I want an early, and a medium, and a late, two of a kind.

Mr. Gowdy:  I planted one year three varieties with great success.

Mr. McClelland:  What time do you uncover your strawberries?

Mr. Kellogg:  I don’t uncover them at all.  If you got on four inches of mulch you want to take off enough so the plants can get through, but keep on enough mulch in the spring to keep your plants clean and protect from the drouth.