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their own roots, and they help to stay the phxnts during the winter fi-om 

 the winds that throw tliem around. I prefer to do my cutting in the 

 spring. 



Mr. Burton: Your call is for remarks from practical berry growers; but 

 I have a little outside evidence to offer. I do not grow them myself; our 

 folks do not like them for use, and I do not like them as a business propo- 

 sition, so I quit growing them some years ago. But I believe Mr. Stewart 

 referred to one way of growing raspberries, which is the way I grew 

 them, and I gi-ew lots of them while I was about it, and had success with 

 them, and the ground grew better all the time. I trim in the spring, or 

 the latter part of winter, and do not drag tlie cane out with a rake or a 

 sled, either. I simply let them lie and piled straw on them in the spring 

 five or six inches deep and pressed it down, and the next year I piled it 

 again on top of the fresh briars, and our berries were just grand. Of 

 oourf^e, you couldn't do this on a large plantation, but I found it does 

 excellently on a small one. 



Mr. Hall: We do not trim until March, for the reason that we think 

 the old canes help to hold the new ones in position during the windy 

 weather. If you take out all the old canes, the wind will blow the yoimg 

 canes over, and I leave a cavity all around the old stalk, and we do not 

 take out the old canes until March on that account. I believe it would be 

 easier to cut it out immediately after the fruiting; but for the sake of the 

 plant we do not practice that. 



Chairman Latta: Mr. Charles Sacksteder, who was to have presented 

 the subject of "Grapes," is unable to be here; but he has sent a paper on 

 the subject, and his father has also brought some specimens of different 

 varieties of grapes, which he will show to you after the paper has been 

 read. 



At the request of the Chairman, Prof. Trooj) then read Mr. Sacksted- 

 er's paper, as follows: 



I was asked to give you a talk on growing and marketing grapes. 

 There is so much room for improvement in my method of growing grapes 

 that I would rather not say anything on the subject. As I have never 

 marketed any grapes, I am not in a position to speak on this subject, 

 either. But I would like to say something on varieties of grapes, having 

 seen a goodly number of Munson's new hybrids and crosses tested, also 

 a number of Herrman Jaeger's seedlings, and several of my own. 



Of Munson's we have tried the Onderdonk, Early Wine, Euniedel, 

 Bell, J. R. W. Munson, Ragan. Perry. B. W. B. Munson, Gold Coin. Van 

 De Man, Baily, Delicious, Hopkins, Rommel, Carman and a lot of others 

 named and numbered. They are. all of good quality and productive, but 

 subject to disease unless sprayed. Carman gave us four crops before 



