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side of the grape yard; I plant the grapes 16 feet apart and all 

 the raspberries and strawberries in the patch are put in 

 between; I have raised on one plat of ground strawberric^s 

 for seven jeara and they have never been changed or plowed 

 up. Sometimes I take a disk and run up and down the rows, 

 and by hauling the limbs over them I give them drag enough 

 without taking a drag. And I have been very successful in 

 a small way with peaches. I haven't very many trees but 

 I rather think I have done pretty well for this section of the 

 country. 



A Member : How have 3^ou found the Campbell's Early in 

 productiveness? 



Mr. Shaver: I haven't raised them myself. The bunches 

 seem to be a little larger and I thought I would start live 

 hundred this spring as an experiment. 



]\Ir. Christv : Mr. Shaver's statement in regard to the 

 Concord and Worden, it seems to me that he has them changed 

 about, and another tiling the Avay he trims his Moore's Early. 

 A great many have trouble getting them to set berries at all, 

 and when he trims to one or two buds in the old branch tlie 

 Moore's Early doesn't set a true bud short of where the second 

 limb comes. 



Mr. Shaver: I never trim but two buds. 



]\Ir. lU'ltzer: ]Mr. Shaver is growing old, and I want to 

 come to his support. I liave the Concords and I succeed in 

 getting all those before they are ripe, they ripen so uneven 

 that parties want them for jelly hence I get them off my 

 hands. 



G. A. Marshall : \Vheu the Concords ripen uneven it is 

 because thev are unhealthv, it is caused bv wet weather that 

 makes trouble in the stem of the bunch and the same thing is 

 troubling the Worden. And there is another trouble with the 

 Word(m ; if you trim it ;is long as the Moore's Early it over- 

 bears and can not ripen the fruit. T think it is the best qual- 

 ity of any. but it is more uncertain, it is very perish;d>h' and 

 must go on the market at once. It is really at its prime before 



