STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. II 



for cider than the land would have paid me for wheat. I had the 

 boys shake them off and haul them to the mill. My wheat paid 

 me $7 per acre, and those Janets paid me twice that. "We just 

 picked them up, rotten ones and all, and made tip top cider. 



Mr. Bryant — I knew an orchard where a good many of the trees 

 had died, but the farm changed hands and the man who bought it 

 said that the old orchard was the best paying portion of the farm, 

 notwithstanding the fact that the half of the trees were dead, 

 and he was making calculations to put out one thousand two hun- 

 dred more trees. 



President Dunlap introduces Mr. Bracket, of Iowa, and Messrs. 

 Spear, Patterson and Thomas, of Missouri. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON RASPBERRIES AND 



BLACKBERRIES. 



BY P. E. YANDENBERG, JERSEYYILLE. 



Mr. President and Friends of our Society : 



I doubt whether I can give you anything that will be new to you 

 old fruit growers, or be of benefit to those that are just starting 

 out. This is simply a report of a small part of our great State, 

 and the kinds and ways one man grows blackberries and rasp- 

 berries in Jersey County. We had a good crop of both black- 

 berries and raspberries, which, on the whole, was disposed of at 

 a fair price. Of course there were some that did not realize what 

 they anticipated, but whether from their own neglect, or from 

 growing the wrong kinds, has not been made known. We have 

 had no second growth this fall, consequently wood is matured and 

 goes into its winter's rest in good shape. 



First, Blackberries — I grow only the Snyder for a main crop. 

 They are early, being nearly gone when wild ones come into the 

 market. They are hardy and productive, bearing every year in 

 quantity as you treat them. Trim closely, leave berries on bushes 

 till ripe and they are hard to beat. I have tried the Taylor. 

 They are not hardy with me, and are haid on clothes. I let them 

 go. Kittatinny rusts too badly, and winter kills — that went also. 

 Early Harvest I had, but was too far north, and that I dropped. 

 Lawton I tried in a small way and gave that up. Erie, (some call it 

 the Lawton,) I have not yet tested enough in the cold winters. I 

 want a late berry, and am going to give Lawton another trial. I 

 have a friend who grows only Lawton, and will grow no other, and 

 he is successful both in wintering and with the rust. I think I 



