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respect to some others — and I would like to hear what he has say 

 about it. 



Mr. Baldwin — I have no ax to grind in the Turner, only as regards 

 the fruit. I suspect I have made more money from that fruit than any 

 other man in the State has from any other single fruit. I have fourteen 

 acres of it. I got, originally, a dozen plants, seedlings, raised by Prof. 

 Turner, and found three varieties among them. I believe Mr. Hay and 

 I discovered about twelve varieties in another place. I propogated my 

 stock from one plant. I tried to put it on the market, but it had been 

 sold mixed, as it was before. I kept out of the market some years, but at 

 last the Prairie Fanner brought it into notice, and I had to put it into 

 market, which I did, at thirty dollars a thousand. The last two years I 

 have had plenty of plants, but the first year I had not. Now as to sprout- 

 ing : the suckers are easily destroyed — but you must keep your hoes away 

 from it or you cannot do any good. 



I plant it in rows eight feet apart ; I did plant four feet apart in the 

 rows, but now I plant a continuous row, and so I do with all the raspber- 

 ries that I grow. I make a hedge of them, and if the frost kills part of 

 them, I have part left. 



Mr. Hay — I know that Mr. Baldwin gets from five to seven cents a 

 quart more for that Turner raspberry than any one gets for other kinds of 

 raspberries, and I know he gets fruit later than any one else. 



Mr. Nelson — Have you ever tried tying them up ? 



Mr. Baldwin — When I first began I took the English plan, and that 

 is to bend them over between the spaces. That leaves the fruit to itself, 

 and the hills to grow the canes in by themselves, which is a very good 

 plan for an amateur, but it did not do for me very long, because it is too 

 much work. The Turner is strong enough to stand of itself. I pick 

 out the old wood, if I have time ; I have not done it this year, but I see 

 the advantage of doing it, and it can be done at any time during the 

 winter ; we have done some already, and we do it at our leisure. I cut 

 them about one third-back ; the canes bend a little, and I cut them at 

 that bend, and they support themselves and stand up. In the hedge row 

 system they support one another more than they do in hills. The color of 

 the berry is a bright scarlet, and sells well. I sold from six hundred to 

 eight hundred quarts this year in Jacksonville, where 1 live. 



Mr. Fla(;<; — What is the yield of this raspberry per acre? 



Mr. Baldwin — I have not figured very close on them since the first. 

 Mr. Hay will recollect it, perhaps. We have in our neighborhood a 



