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Question — What do you pay ? 



Answer — Two cents per quart for strawberries, and two cents 

 per pint for raspberries. 



Question — How often do you pay ? 



Answer — Twice a week. 



Question — What will a quart of strawberries weigh? 



Answer — From ten to twenty ounces. It depends upon quality 

 and variety. 



J, M. Pearson — I like Prof. Ragan's remarks about marketing 

 fruits. We must exercise judgment in this as. in other matters. 

 The Lord makes little apples, and when he sends them to me I am 

 going to sell them the best I can, 



J. L. Budd, Professor of Horticulture and Forestry, Iowa Agri- 

 cultural College, delivered his lecture on 



THE FEUIT QUESTION IN THE PRAIEIE STATES. 



Mr. President and Members:^ 



Climatically Europe may be divided into two great portions. 

 These are known to writers on the geographical distribution of 

 plants as the "north plain" and the ''east plain." 



The north plain includes the north of France, Belgium, Hol- 

 land, North Germany, Denmark, Prussia, and most of Poland. As 

 with England this plain is modified in climate, and made a land of 

 verdure, by the influence of the gulf stream on the west, even more 

 completely than the west coast of our continent. Over all this sec- 

 tion the ►5ophora, Pawlonia, and the trees and plants generally that 

 thrive with Mr. Parsons, at Flushing, Long Island, are things of 

 health and beauty. 



From this equable and relatively humid clime, or from the south 

 of France and England we have mainly received the varieties, or the 

 parents of the varieties, of the fruits we cultivate in the Middle and 

 Western States. Yet some of these fruits have proven hardier and 

 longer lived than others. 



A careful study of the great collections in the nurseries of the 

 milder portions of Europe will soon show how Ave happened to get 

 the Duchess, Fameuse, Grros Pomier, Drap de Or, etc. The great 

 nurseries, like those at Metz, Angers, Berlin, etc., have a trade with 

 portions of Austria, Silesia, Bohemia, Hungary and Switzerland, 

 where the ameliorating influence of the ocean breeze is cut off by 



