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handle the berries right. The only way to do is to have a man on the 

 market, and then he can tell you the situation of the market and can 

 keep you posted, and he can make good deals, and he can afford to be 

 earnest because you pay him his salary. When you trust to the men 

 there, they will tell you they can make good deals ; they will get a car- 

 load of berries when they ought to have only a hundred crates, and 

 the only way for them to do then is to cut the price. 



To my certain knowledge there are houses I have been in when I 

 would be in the market, and to my certain knowledge they would not 

 turn down a single car. There were houses receiving berries they 

 had no use for on earth, and the only way they could sell was to cut 

 the price, and how did they do it? They advertised the markets a 

 week ahead all over Minnesota, Wisconsin and Colorado, and they 

 advertised berries for $1.50 when the markets were $1.75. It is not 

 right for the strawberry grower to have to pay for this, and the house 

 that expects berries to go lower from day to day does not represent 

 the interests of the strawberry grower. I have come back here with 

 a grip full of information that I gathered quietly upon the streets and 

 quietly upon the markets. I went down on the markets to buy straw- 

 berries commissioned out by certain men, and I only make statements 

 that I have authority to prove, and, as I said before, when you solve 

 the problem of growing berries you have not got half over the bridge, 

 and believe me, gentlemen, you can never know who to ship to and 

 know the condition of the markets without you have your represenra- 

 tive men there, and for God's sake, gentlemen, always send him. 



RASPBERRY CULTIVATION. 



The following paper by D. A. Turner, of St. Joseph, in the absence 

 of the writer, was read by Secretary Goodman at the State Horticul- 

 tural meeting : 



"I see you have me down for a paper on 'Raspberries — Planting, 

 Cultivation, Pruning and Varieties.' They should be planted 8x4 feet 

 apart. Plant as early in the spring as the ground will work well, or a 

 good plan is to let plants get from five to eight inches high and you 

 will be sure to have a stand. 



" Cultivation should be thorough and shallow. I use a Planet, Jr., 

 five-shovel plow and a two-horse cultivator and cultivate every eight 

 or ten days from the time the plants are set to August 20, and hoe 

 every other plowing. No weeds or grass should be allowed to grow. 



" The first year pinch back when 16 to 20 inches high. It will 

 make them more stocky and cause them to throw out laterals. The 



