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Mr. Smith — No, sir, I never did. I got disgusted with them 

 before I tried them myself. A friend of mine tried them, and 

 made so thorough a failure that I would not risk them. He had 

 tried them under good circumstances; everything, as I thought, 

 favorable. 



Mr. Kellogg — Perhaps he set them by themselves. It is a pis- 

 tillate, and, like any pistillate variety, entirely worthless when set 

 by itself. The Crescent Seedling may not be hermaphrodite 

 enough to produce the best effect by itself, but it certainly is 

 enough so to produce a good heavy crop. The Green Prolific is 

 one of the old varieties, and has been tried generally and thoroughly, 

 and with success, for a near market. It is not good for transporta- 

 tion two hundred miles. On one of the rows, three feet wide and 

 eighteen rods long, my record was fifty-six quarts to the picking. 



Mr. Smith — I had one picking of Wilsons last summer over the 

 •whole ground, in which we averaged twenty-eight quarts to the 

 square rod. 



Mr. Kellogg — How many pickings had you for the season? 

 Mr. Smith — I had five large pickings. 



Mr. Kellogg — My average, for the plantation, was ten pickings- 

 Mr. Smith — I only count five; I only count the large pickings. 

 Mr. Kellogg — I averaged the full crop, and it amounted to just 

 the picking of this day, which would make five bushels to the 

 square rod of Green Prolific. The Wilson did better with me. 

 One row two feet wide and sixteen rods long gave forty quarts to a 

 picking, and averaged ten such pickings, which would make be- 

 tween six and seven bushels to the square rod. I admit that the 

 Wilson is worth more than anything else we have ever had for gen- 

 eral culture; yet the Crescent Seedling, with me, last year yielded, 

 well; on plants that I moved half a mile, I picked berries four and 

 one-half inches in circumference, and the stems were loaded right 

 down to the ground on plants set the same spring. In the bed I 

 left for fruiting, where I did not disturb the plants, there was a 

 splendid show. I do not know what it is going to do. I can tell 

 you by the first of July next. 



Mr. Plumb, of Milton — I want to talk a little on President 

 Smith's experience. There is something he did not tell us that we 

 would like to know. The soil in which he grows these berries is a 

 purely artificial soil. It is one of those Fox river sand banks that 



