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Mr. Brillhart: I would plant it t0 raspberries, and I would choose 

 Marlboro. Cuthbert would make a too rank growth and be too tender, 

 but Marlboro needs lots of moisture and good, rich soil, and'^it will bear 

 beautiful berries. It is a great seller. 



Q. How about its yielding? A. It will yield more quarts of berries 

 than any variety known. 



Q. How about the hot seasons? A. It will stand anything. 



Q. How about crumbling? A. It will stand up with anything, on my 

 soil. On my soil Marlboro does not make the growth within half of what 

 Cuthbert does, but I can pick more quarts of berries than off the Cuth- 

 berts. This will be the ninth summer, for my bushes, and they look as 

 well as ever. 



Q. Do they break to pieces when you pick or ship? A. No, sir, they 

 don't; and you can slip them on the end of your finger. 



Mr. Morrill : I have had some experience with Marlboro. When they 

 first came out I invested |750 in them, and I got the money back from 

 them; but in three years the foliage fell and the crop failed. I repeated 

 my attempt two or three times, and finally had to give it up, but I never 

 had anything sell in Chicago as they did. For two years my price held at 

 |2.75 and $3 per twelve-quart case, while other varieties went at seventy- 

 five cents and a dollar. They were overhauled and sorted and carefully 

 put in, and every berry in its place. It cost me fifteen cents per case to 

 do that, but they brought a wonderful price. There was nothing else on 

 the market, and I don't know where I would go to make money any 

 faster than to cultivate Marlboro, where it can be grown successfully; 

 but even when they failed at three years, I made money on them. On the 

 Hudson river they have done well and at Saginaw, I have heard, they 

 have done well; and even north of here. 



Judge Russell: I have similar soil to that which has been mentioned, 

 and I am planting black-caps, the Conrath variety; but I am only doing 

 that because it comes in advance of Gregg, of which there are too many. 

 I don't like to be where the crowd is too thick, in fruit matters. 



Mr. Rork: Have you Kansas? A. Yes. 



Q. Which do you like best? A. Kansas is the stronger grower, but it 

 does not yield so well. It is just as nice a berry, and a little better 

 grower, but it does not yield, with me, over sixty per cent, of Conrath. 

 The question of anthracnose is a serious one with black-caps. Conrath 

 so far has been free, though with me neither has had this disease. 



Q. You say Kansas is the more vigorous grower? The other is good? 

 A. Excellent. With me it is an ideal black-cap. 



Q. Which stands drouth best? A. They both had to stand much of it 

 last summer, and they came through in fine shape. Kansas has been best 

 in this section. 



Q. Better than Conrath? A. I think so. 



Mr. Morrill : Kansas is a grand, good berry, but Conrath with me is a 

 better one. 



Q. What is your soil? A. Rich, black, sandy loam, very nice; and my 

 present plantation is on quite new land. I have eight acres, set last 

 spring on the older land, and they came along finely and showed vigor 

 in spite of drouth. 



