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supply of Strawberries and raspberries? Three ! How man^^ a full 

 supply of strawberries? Four! How raauy dislike strawberries? 

 Not one ! How many like them? [Everybody raises his hand.] 



It is a shame to us that we don't live half as well as we might. 

 We don't get as many comforts out of life as the city people do, 

 and to some extent it is our own fault. If we like these fruits we 

 are at fault if we do not raise at least enough for home consumption. 

 They are so easily grown ; there is no great mystery about it. You 

 can grow a bushel of strawberries almost as cheaply as a bushel of 

 potatoes and just about as easily. Which had you rather have in 

 j'our famih', a bushel of strawberries or a bushel of potatoes? You 

 would rather have 29 quarts of strawberries than 32 of potatoes. If 

 you set out a little patch of strawberries in a shady corner of your 

 garden and don't half cultivate your land and let the weeds choke 

 them out you will think it doesn't pay, and it doesn't if you go 

 about it in that way. But tafe:e it right out in the open field ; plant 

 them in long rows, just as your vegetable garden ought to be planted 

 in rows 4, 6, 8, 10 or 12 rods long and do almost all the work with 

 your horse cultivator, and there is no part of your farm that will 

 begin to give 3'ou such returns at so little expense. 



Mr. Starrett. What is the value of the yellow raspberries ? 

 what are they good for? 



Mr. Hale. In the first place they are good to eat. If 3'ou refer to 

 the ytllow cap variety ; they are very yellow, dry as a chip and 

 hardly fit to eat, but take such a variety as the Brinkle's Orange and 

 there is no raspberry than can compare with it for fine flavor. It is 

 rather a slow grower, but the fruit is excellent. The Caroline is a 

 hardy variety ; it is a cross between the red raspberry and the cap 

 variet}' of very good quality, hardy, a profuse bearer and ripens 

 extremely early. It is only fit for home use, being too soft for the 

 market. Then we have another one of a more recent introduction, 

 a sport from the Cuthbert, the Golden Queen, a very large orange 

 colored raspberry of delicious flavor, a profuse bearer and a hardy 

 plant. But yellow raspberries and white currants and things of that 

 kind never have sold well in the market. The Golden Queen has 

 only been recommended throughout the countrj' as an amateur berry, 

 a family berry ; but during the last few years it has been put upon 

 the market to some extent and it has been a matter of surprise to 

 all fruit growers how it has sold. It has sold very readily and at 

 high prices on account of its beautiful appearance. It is firm and 



