54 State Horticultural Society. 



DEWBERRY. 



Mr. Atwood. — Mr. Goodman has had some experience. He has 

 been there. I know of a man who has 4 acres of dewberries and makes 

 more money out of them than he does from his strawberries. Ho 

 never sells any less than $1.75. They ship well. He sends them to 

 St. Joe anjl Topeka and other places. He gets fine prices. I want to 

 tell you how he grows them. He tries to destroy them it seems to me. 

 He will plow them up and the next year have a berry crop that will 

 surprise an}- one. After picking his crop, he will run over his patch 

 with a mower and then burn them over and you would think he would 

 surely kill them. He does not^touch them until next spring and then 

 he cuts their tops off some. But he certainly knows how to raise fine 

 berries. 



Question. AMiat variety does he grow? 



The Lucretia. 



Mr. Evans.— What kind of land did he plant them on? 



A land free from stones, and as I said this morning, they believe 

 in getting the land in good order first and then put out your fruit. 



GROWING THE GRAPE VINE. 

 (By Ed Kemper, Hermann, ^lo.) 



"Growing the Grape Vine, and Planting and Care of the Vine- 

 yard," the subject assigned me by the Secretary, is work which I have 

 done ever since I was able to wOrk, but it seems difficult for me to 

 treat this in a short paper. 



Growing the Grape Vine. — Years ago there were at Hermann more 

 than a dozen wine growers that propagated vines, but they gave up 

 one after another, saying "this dosen's pay any more;" they had 15, 20 

 and 25 cents for each vine. Today nearly all the wine growers sell 

 their cuttings to us, and if they are in need of vines they buy them 

 from us, very often asking "how can you grow them at that price?" 

 and all I can answer is, "nowadays you have to see that you get better 

 results." 



We grow all the vines from cuttings, including the Norton's Vir- 

 ginia Seedling, Hermann, Cynthiana, Neosho, etc., which in former 

 years it was claimed could not be propagated from cutting successfully. 



