Mr. Kellogg:  That white grub don’t follow tomatoes, if the ground was clear of white grubs before.  It is a three year old grub, and it don’t come excepting where the ground is a marsh or meadow, and doesn’t follow in garden soil, hardly ever.  If the ground has been cultivated two years, you don’t have any white grub.

Mr. Glenzke:  Part of this ground had been in red raspberries, and I found them there.  This year I am going to put in tomatoes and prepare it for strawberries.  Will that be all right?

Mr. Kellogg:  You may get some white grubs after the raspberry bushes if your raspberries have been two or three years growing.  Potato ground is the best you can follow strawberries with.

Mr. Rasmussen (Wisconsin):  What trouble have you experienced with overhead irrigation with the strawberries in the bright sunshine?

Mr. Kellogg:  Everything is against it.  You wet the foliage, and it is a damage to the plants.  You can’t sprinkle in the hot sun without damage.

Mr. Rasmussen:  I didn’t mean in putting it on in that way, but where you use the regular spray system.  We watered that way about seven years in the hottest sunshine without any difficulty, and I wondered if you ever put in a system and sprayed that way, as I think that is the only way to put water on.

Mr. Kellogg:  If you wait to spray after sundown it will be all right; the sun mustn’t shine on the plants.

Mr. Richardson:  Mr. Yankee once said in this society if one man said anything another man would contradict it.  So pay your money and take your choice.  I sprinkle my strawberries in the hot sun, and I never had any damage done to the plants.  His experience is different.  Ours is a heavy clay loam.

Mr. Kellogg:  Tell the gentlemen about the peat soil, you had some experience with peat soil.

Mr. Richardson:  No, I never did.  It wasn’t peat, it was a heavy black clay and I had the best kind of strawberries, they came right through a tremendous drouth without any water at all.

Mr. Kellogg:  What did you use?

Mr. Richardson:  I used a common garden hoe.

Mr. Willis:  I heard some one talking about the grub worm.  I read of somebody using fifty pounds of lime to the acre, slaked lime, and 100 pounds of sulphur to the acre in a strawberry bed, and he killed the insects.

Mr. Kellogg:  I think that wouldn’t kill the grub; he has a stomach that will stand most anything.  The only thing I know is to cut his head off.  (Laughter.)

Mr. Willis:  Would it improve the plants, fertilize the plants, this lime?

Mr. Kellogg:  Lime and sulphur is all right, and the more lime you put on the better—­if you don’t get too much. (Laughter.)

Mr. Sauter:  I am growing the Minnesota No. 3, and also the No. 1017 as an everbearer.  Is there any kind better than those two?

Mr. Kellogg:  I don’t believe there is anything yet that has been offered or brought out that I have examined thoroughly that is any better than June variety No. 3, as grown by Haralson, and the No. 1017 of the everbearers.  He had a number of everbearers that bore too much.  There was No. 107 and No. 108, I think, that I tried at Lake Mills, which bore themselves to death in spite of everything I could do.