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Clyde. About eleven years ago I originated a berry on my place and 

 named it after my youngest boy and called it the Clyde. I propagated 

 and raised from that berry for three years and scattered it broadcast 

 over the country under the name of the Clyde ; after a few years I 

 plowed it up and thought no more about it, for it did not prove suc- 

 cessful with me, until within the last two or three years I have begun 

 to hear a great deal about the Clyde ; now if that is the Clyde that 

 originated with me — I do not know whether it is or not — but if it is I 

 will just say try it very sparely at first anyway. It is a self fertilizer, 

 the stem is rather coarse, and the berry is a little inclined itself to be 

 coarse, looks as if you might have thrown a little sand over it ; I da 

 not know that this is the berry that originated with me, as it proved 

 after so long a time worthless with me, but I know I scattered that 

 berry over the country under the name of the Clyde, and whether 

 some one has grown it and been successful, or whether it is another 

 berry sprung up under the same name or not, I cannot say. That was 

 some ten or eleven years ago, and it might do better with some of you 

 than it did with me, but it did very well with me for three years. 



By Mr. Barnes — I would like to know if anyone can tell me any- 

 thing about a berry called the Bisel? 



By Mr. Miller — I had the Bisel a few years ago and it did not come 

 up to the mark and I let it run out. 



By Mr. McKinney — I have the Bisel but it is not very good with 

 me. 



Mr. Gilbert — I had the Bisel and do not consider it of any good at 

 all. 



MARKETING THE STRAWBERRY. 



In the fertile Ozark country, yea, in the great commonwealth of 

 Missouri, the big red apple is not alone king. There is at least one 

 other royal product and a princely aspirant for kingly honors. Into 

 the lists has come a new knight, and his escutcheon bears the legend 

 AVarfield, Clyde, Crescent, Gandy. 



He has come to stay and asks your good offices in his coronation, 

 and your loyal support in the continuance of his reign. Long live 

 king strawberry. 



I am here today as his embassador, his knighl errant, his Sir 

 Lancelot. It has been said by those weak-hearted, or possibly pessi- 

 mistically inclined, that the strawberry would, ere long, be the subject 

 of over-production, and some there are who have began practicing the 

 chanting of its requiem. Allow me to say that it is not in over-pro- 



