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are to my notion the coming berry. For a marketing berry, it would 

 not market so well as those Mr. Gilbert spoke of, it is a softer berry. 

 It is very productive, and I think the Kansas is the coming berry, so 

 far as my experience goes. 



Mr. Hopkins — I have set out a few of the Kansas, and my objec- 

 tion, jnst as the other gentleman said, it ripens its fruit all at once. 

 The berry is all right I suppose. 



Mr. Atwood — I want to say a word for the Progress. I visited 

 at Seligman H. C. Fitch, who is a large berry grower and has about 

 20 acres of raspberries, and he says the best growers are the Kansas 

 and the Progress, but the Progress is ahead of the Kansas, and another 

 thing in its favor, the season for it is longer, and the Kansas ripens 

 quickly and we will have a glut in the market ; the Progress will stay 

 in the market twice as long. They commence to ripen about the same 

 time as the Kansas but last much longer. 



Mr. Smith also recommends the Gibson very highly. 



Mr. Murray — It rather strikes me that berries that ripen all at 

 once can be picked cheaper than berries that ripen longer. There 

 might be a glut in the local market, but when it comes to shipping I 

 do not think it would make any diflFerence. We might have a number 

 of different varieties, starting in with the Babbit and then the Kansas 

 and others and have them ripen long after each other, but I do not 

 think a berry ought to be discarded because it ripens its fruit all at 

 once, that is, within a week or ten days. 



Mr. Hopkins — I do not say discard it at all, but I think it would 

 be bad policy to everybody to go in and plant the Kansas, 



At the close of this session President Jesse was introduced and 

 the meeting adjourned until the afternoon. 



Wednesday, June 9 — 2 p. m. 



The session was called' to order by the President. 

 The following letter was read : 



Sarcoxie, Mo , June 7, 1897. 

 Mr. G. A. Atwood, Secretary Greene County Fruit Growers' Association, Sprlngfleld, Mo. : 



We today express prepaid to your address one bale of peach and plum trees for dis- 

 tribution and trial; trees kept In our storage building since last November. Hand them 

 to some one that will take care of same and likely report success or failure of same io 

 grow . 



The packages will be in 3 trees of a kind— peacli and plum. Let them go as you think 

 best. 



One of us will try to be at the meeting however. Our James P.. is yet fast on the ship- 

 ping committee. They expect to get 3 cars of berries out today, mostly Gandy. 



We have had several fine rains in the past few days, which is causing all transplanted 

 stock to start to growing nicely. Yours truly, 



James B. Wild & Bros. 



