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picking, so you see where I would have been if my land had not been 

 well drained ; but the water was all gone in 20 minutes after it quit 

 raining. Well, I see I can't cover what I was aiming at by writing, so 

 will let up. 



Capt. Jack nearly a failnre ; also Bedarwood ; Downing, big crop, 

 Crescent, big yield, but went down with wet, mnggy weather; lost 

 most of them ; Bnbachs only set about half crop, owing to big rain 

 when bloom was best; some very fine berries and lots of button. 

 They would have been immense if they had bloomed with Haverland, 

 but they were about four days later and caught the big rain. Michael 

 bore the largest crop I have seen on it. Of all the berries on my land 

 Haverland is worth them all; although it looks tender, it carries and 

 holds its color better than anything I've seen, except Bidwell, and it is 

 a very poor bearer with me. We have a bona fide trade of several hun- 

 dred dollars with the better class of Plattsburg, and they want Haver- 

 lands first, last and all the time. Well, my experience is that plenty 

 of plants, well distributed, are much better than extra heavy slants. 

 We picked about 7,000 quarts off of a little over an acre, and about 

 one-third of them were Haverlands, although there was less than one- 

 fourth Haverland plants. Have Timbril, Brandywine, Parker, Earl 

 and Greenville planted for next year. The apple crop will be very 

 light here. Peaches are falling badly since the weather became so 

 hot. Grapes look well. Blackberries and raspberries are immense as 



far as I have heard. 



G. T. Odor, Holt, Clay county. Mo. 



PLANTING— CULTURE— YARIETIES OF STRAWBERRIES. 



In presenting this paper before this body of berrj^-growers I en- 

 ter the field with the expectation of some criticism by those who have 

 had more experience in this calling than I have. But I must say with 

 some degree of pride that after twelve years' growing of berries, and 

 at the same time cultivating an experimental ground in a small way, I 

 feel like I may be heard with the rest of those who have devoted their 

 time and energy in the growing and improving of this the best of all 

 berries. But I cannot say that it has all been smooth sailing — "nay, 

 verily." I have had many disappointments, and have learned more by 

 my failures than by the success I have ever had, and if we berry- 

 growers would write and talk more of our failures than we do, we 

 would keep many an anxious novice from stranding on the "sand-bar" 

 that we run aground on. Experiments are sometimes expensive be- 



