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Dr. Thomas: I think all there is of it is jealousy. If you hadn't said 

 you didn't want any one to answer that, I would try. The great trouble 

 with the farmer is lack of business experience. 



51r. Morrill: AVith one another? 



A. Yes, and with the world. That is what the farmer lacks. A man 

 who has had business experience, of course can enter into these things, 

 and with a different spirit; but I think the farmers are becoming more 

 like business men and more intelligent and broader. Ignorance and 

 jealousy go together, and they always go with inexperience, and with 

 those who have not had the opportunity for reading and acquiring the in- 

 telligence they should have. Young men come to me sometimes and say, 

 I don't want to go to college; I am going to be a farmer. All the 

 greater reason you should graduate. Get an education, and I believe 

 when that becomes general you can go on and trust people. It is a lack 

 of intelligence and business experience. What we want to do is to 

 broaden the views of the farmer. The trouble is it has been the 

 other way all the while. We must get our country school-houses and 

 keep them up, and then we will have no trouble, and the farmers will take 

 care of themelves, and they will unite and combine and find it for their 

 interest. 



Mr. Baldwin: Business men can communicate with each other. They 

 have the telephone and telegraph ; they are posted every day and every 

 night as to all that is going on ; if there is a frost on my crop they know it. 

 Farmers, in order to unite, must travel on foot or horseback to reach each 

 other, and how are they going to do it? That generally is the secret of 

 the whole thing. If farmers could reach each other and combine they 

 could bring the world to their feet. 



ENGLISH GOOSEBEKRIES IN MICHIGAN. 



BY JAMES L. KIRK OF ADRIAN. 



About thirty years ago I received some seeds from England of the 

 Crown Bob variety. I raised some plants from those seeds. When 

 they began to bear, for a few years I had trouble with mildew. I tried 

 various things but could not stop it. I found it would have to be done 

 by cultivation. My ground is a sandy loam, which is not so good, I 

 think, as heavier soil. They need a rich soil to start with. If the ground 

 is in good order the leaves will be larger to protect the berry from late 

 frosts in the spring. Then cultivate as you would any plant or tree. 

 3Ianure freely. Top dressing in the fall, is, I think, the best. 



About the last of May or the first week in June there will be formed 

 sprouts or suckers from the roots. I cut them all out clean to give a good 

 circulation of air, which they must have, or they are likely to mildew. 

 Put hellebore on for worms. Keep them clean from weeds, give them a 

 mulch of straw or grass through the summer. Follow this treatment 

 and you will not have any mildew. 



