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any winter protection ; there are but few other varieties that are 

 valuable for market or table but that would be tender here. Possi- 

 bly the New Erie will stand your climate, and I am not sure but that 

 the Minnewaska will, but they have not been tested here, I presume. 

 An}^ variety that you are not absolutely sure about I should protect. 



Mr. Briggs. What are one or two of the best red raspberries? 



Mr. Hale. The Cuthbert is as hardy, perhaps, as anything ex- 

 cept the Turner. If I was to grow it in Maine I should give it pro- 

 tection, I presume; but we grow it without protection. It is the 

 best red raspberry, all things considered that there is in the country. 

 Of course there are higher flavored berries, but there are none that 

 will prove more satisfactory in all respects. It is the Concord-Bald- 

 win-Bartlett stock of the raspberry. 



Question. In the cultivation of currants, I would like to inquire 

 how 3'ou conquer the currant worm ? 



Mr. Hale. There is very little trouble about that ; the currant 

 worm need not affect currant culture hardl}' a particle. Watch 

 closely for their first appearance and dust the vine with white helle- 

 bore. Tliat is sure destruction. If 3'Ou do not clean them all out 

 with one application try another one in a week or so. By watching 

 the field carefully it need not make an expense of fifty cents per 

 acre to keep the currant worms under subjection. Paris green or 

 London purple may be used ; but we use the hellebore because it is 

 less dangerous and will do the work. I have been recently informed 

 by an expert gardener in Duchess count3', New York, that where 

 he had applied iron filings about his currant bushes, in a field that 

 had been over-run with currant worms for several years, he was 

 entirely rid of them. He applied the iron tilings and chips about 

 the base of his bushes in Jseptember or August five years ago and 

 there has not been a currant worm in the field since, while a neigh- 

 boring field, where they were not applied, is still afflicted. I have 

 never tested it myselt, but that comes from very reliable authority. 

 I shall most surely trj' it next year. 



There is one thing that I desire to saj'' emphatically to the 

 farmers of Maine, and that is, do not go into the growing of 

 small fruits for the market until you have a splendid farm garden. 

 I would like to inquire how man}' men here are using five acres of 

 land or more. Nearly all of 3'ou raise your hands. Now, how 

 many of you have a good small fruit garden that is giving your 

 families a good supply? Ouly two ! How many are growing a full 



