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get crops such as we should have. Now, if you keep your plants six 

 inches apart, or in hills, cutting otf the runners, you can at least 

 succeed in educating your market so that it will pay four prices for 

 what you produce in that way. It seems to me that this is well 

 worth our consideration. It can be done. There are plenty of 

 men in most of our markets who are willing to pay for a good 

 article. 1 believe in educating the markets, but I would not edu- 

 cate them at our own expense ; I believe in making money while 

 we educate the public taste. People like quality when they find it, 

 and the better class of our buyers will soon learn that one berry is 

 superior to another. 



31r. E. T. HoUister, of St. Louis — I would like to say a few words 

 in favor of an old friend of mine who has been very much abused 

 tonight. Its name is Wilson's Albany strawberry. Now, if I am 

 not mistaken, we all want to raise a berry that customers will come 

 up and pay for; out of which they can get the greatest profit from 

 the smallest investment. I have handled a great variety of berries, 

 and almost invariably, when people come into my store, they first 

 ask for the Wilson. You may say to them, " I have the Downer 

 and many others better than the Wilson,'' but they will tell you, 

 ^' The Wilson is good enough for me." There is a berry called the 

 Crystal City which comes in early and brings a good price. It is 

 very successful in Arkansas. I am sorry to hear the Wilson so much 

 abused. The Wilson sells the best, and that is what we raise berries 

 for. The best results in strawberry culture have been realized with 

 the bone dust and blood fertilizers. 



Mr. Galusha, of Illinois — I agree entirely with the last speaker. 

 As I said in my article, for shipping any distance the Wilson is a 

 berry that will sell and bring money. The Wilson strawberry is 

 like the Ben Davis apple, in this respect; but I want to sell my 

 Wilsons and buy strawberries good to eat. 



3Ir. HoUister — I have shipped Wilsons one hundred and fifty 

 miles and put them along side of Crescents, and the Wilsons would 

 be sold first. 



Mr. Goodman, of Missouri — I have shipped berries from Kansas 

 City to Denver, a distance of six hundred miles, and they would 

 arrive in good order. 



