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should be the price in large markets, droppiiio- to $2.50 and $2 as the 

 season advances. When lower than $2 they may be canned and also 

 made into all uses that the blackberry is pnt to, and are bv many preferred 

 to blackberries. 



DISCUSSION ON DEWBERRY. 



F, H. Speakman, Neosho. — The dewberry has grown well, with me, 

 for two years. After the first crop when the canes are larger, the borer 

 works at about a foot below the surface. The drouth of 1897 did some 

 injury. From thirty-five acres of one-year plants I had a good crop. 

 Some were killed by the cold, but some growth can be spared and no 

 pruning is then needed. Old ones are not in good condition. The fruit 

 i? a large, very dark and shining blackberry. It ships well under ice; 

 the Lucretia is said to be the only one tested. Plant five feet each way 

 in winter and early March; cultivate both ways as long as you do not 

 hurt the vines, then train in rows and cultivate one way, cut back to 

 eighteen inches in the spring. 



cultivatio:nt ai^d best varieties of grapes. 



Hy. Wallis, Wellston, Mo. 



In giving my experience, obtained during the last ten years, on this 

 topic I wish it to be understood that I am speaking only in regard to 

 extensive field culture and not for the amateur, growing some grape- 

 vines in his garden more for pleasure than for profit. 



Whenever the fruit grower attempts to plant a vineyard of several 

 acres it is of the utmost importance: First, to select the proper soil, 

 properly located on the top or slope of elevated land. I scorn the idea 

 to plant a vineyard on low, level lands, and I think the best soil for a 

 vineyard must have a somewhat clayey, brownish subsoil and a south- 



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