special service to us I find the list almost without limit. With what
pleasure and satisfaction have I been permitted to serve with the
members of this society! What willingness to perform the duties
suggested has ever characterized the assistance that has been rendered
by the membership of this society! It has been an exceedingly rare thing
for any member to offer an objection to undertaking any service asked of
him, and with such support as this so readily and heartily given, and
often at large expense to the member, what can be expected other than
such success as has come to our society. I wish I had the ability to
express at this time the thought that is in my heart as I recall all of
these helpful brothers and sisters to whom indeed belongs as much as to
the writer any distinction that comes to the society as a result of
these years of labor.

Notwithstanding the State University have seen fit to refer to this in a
way to indicate that our society has reached some certain vantage
ground, it must not be lost sight of that the real work of the society
is still before it. Whether to be carried on under the present
management or under a changed management we have a right to look ahead
and anticipate the definite and widely expanding results that are still
to come from the services of the members of the society, which we are
sure in the future, as in the past, will be heartily rendered.

A. W. LATHAM, Secy.

June-Bearing Strawberries.

GEO. J. KELLOGG, RETIRED NURSERYMAN, JANESVILLE, WIS.

Any fool that knows enough can grow strawberries, which reminds me of
the preacher in York State who both preached and farmed it. He was
trying to bore a beetle head and could not hold it; a foolish boy came
along and said, "Why don't you put it in the hog trough?" "Well! Well!"
the preacher said. "You can learn something from most any fool." The boy
said, "That is just what father says when he hears you preach." I don't
expect to tell you much that is new, but I want to emphasize the good
things that others have said:

_Soils._ I once had twenty-one acres of heavy oak, hickory, crab apple
and hazel brush, with one old Indian corn field. I measured hazel brush
twelve feet high, and some of the ground was a perfect network of hazel
roots; the leaf mould had accumulated for ages. The first half acre I
planted to turnips, the next spring I started in to make my fortune. I
set out nineteen varieties of the best strawberries