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grow better strawberries in Valley county with less work than we 

 could in iSIichigan. I have the credit of growing and selling the first 

 strawberries that were ever sold in Broken Bow. 1 used to send two 

 pails west to Broken Bow one day and two pails east to Loup City 

 the next, and got twenty-five cents a quart for them. 



I have grown a raspberry there that I brought from Michigan fif- 

 teen years ago. There never has been but one season until last year 

 but that they have stood the severe winters without laying down, and 

 I have had from half a crop to the heaviest crop that ever was grown 

 every year. This morning Mr. Hesser mentioned the Tyler as being 

 the best raspberry he is growing. I bought 500 plants from Mr. 

 Hesser a few years ago and set them right adjoining those I have 

 been growing there for fifteen years, and the difference is very marked. 

 Those of my own raising are more than double the size in cane, and 

 I much prefer them to the Tyler. I wish to emphasize this a little 

 moi'e strongly than I should have done had not the remark been made 

 by Mr. Hartley that we were a little outside the territory for growing 

 fruit to ship. I have invited people in there when we had fruit that 

 would show, on purpose to let them know what we could do. I have 

 had them come from twenty-five to forty miles in every direction, as 

 high as thirty or forty people in a day, and have been very much en- 

 couraged by such remarks as this : " I came from one of the best fruit 

 growing sections of the east, and I never saw anything to sur|)ass 

 this." This remark was frequently made in regard to the raspberries, 

 also in regard to the grapes. 



The blackberry is something we have failed to raise. I would not 

 recommend any one to plant them in that part of the state. I had 

 the wild Michigan blackberry, but it j)roved a failure. I have also 

 tried the Snyder. Of course, by laying' them down in winter we 

 might succeed, but if we allow them to stand up as we do the rasp- 

 berries we cannot succeed. 



We have had good success with the gooseberry. We grow the 

 Downing as a rule. The juneberry is a native of that part of the 

 state and it does first rate. We have grown eight or ten varieties of 

 currants and they have done fully as well for us as they ever did in 

 ^Michigan. 1 regard the Red Dutch the best of the red currants for 

 a farm garden. 1 have tried eight or ten other varieties of the reds, 

 but do not like any of them as well as the Red Dutch. The White 

 Grape, I think, is the best of the white currants. 



