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The red are delicious for the table, jelly, canning, preserving, etc., 

 but, like blackberries, not profitable for drying, as they will evaporate 

 too much. Set plants in row one to two feet, and rows six feet apart. 

 After first year keep rows cut down to ten and to fifteen inches wide. 

 Top when about three feet high. The red will do without topping or 

 •cutting back. But the Black cap and large sorts of blackberries will 

 not do. I have been very successful in growing strawberries and 

 Black-cap raspberries in the same row, by setting; one to three straw- 

 berry plants between the raspberry plants all about the same time. 

 Have had the first and second year a full crop of strawberries, and 

 have not lessened my raspberry crop, but it requires more manure. 

 If raspberries are topped right, they are not much in the way of pick- 

 ing strawberries. Shall plant two acres this way next spring. 



Raspherries — Black cap succeed best for me. Tyler, Hopkins, 

 Centennial, Mammoth Cluster, Gregg, and of the red, Brandywine, 

 Thwack, Turner, Herstine. 



Blackberries— Wihonh Early, Kittatinny, Snyder and Taylor's 

 Prolific. Have some newer varieties that may supersede some of the 

 kinds, but are not sufficiently tested yet. I market my berries in Ne- 

 vada, at ten cents to twenty-five cents a quart. I pay one to two cents 

 a quart for picking. They pick fifty to one hundred quarts a day. I 

 pay every night. Some of the pickers appear to be as rich as mil- 

 lionaires. I employ mostly girls. I would rather oversee fifty women 

 than twenty boys. The best sorts of berries can be grown for one 

 ■cent a quart, and picked for two cents, making three cents a quart. 

 Who will do without this wholesome fruit ? 



The following paper was prepared bj' S. Miller : 



Bluffton, Mo., June 5, 1885. 



Mr, Goodman : As chairman of the committee on small fruits, I 

 fear my report will not be a very flattering one. 



A hail-storm on the 25th of May following a drought of three weeks 

 jgives the strawberry crop a poor show, although we still have a fair 

 crop of some varieties. 



Cherries, a slim crop, except one Elton tree has a fall load. Straw- 

 berries are a very ordinary crop, except Crescent, Glendale and a new 

 one, Millei's Mo. 18, which has an enormous crop. Nigh's Superb, Mrs. 

 Garfield, Pipsr, Old Ironclad and Wilson are not worth their room here. 

 Howell's Prolific and Walter will also be discarded. 



Hart's Minnesota has done better than any of the others that came 

 out at that time. 



