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Mr. Heath — What varieties of grapes are the best? 



Mr. Marshall — Concord and Worden did the best. Moore's 

 Early and Pocklington bore a light crop. Those four are the only 

 varieties that are planted to any extent, that bore anything. The 

 Agawam did not bear scarcely at all. The raspberries that bloomed 

 very early bore about 20 per cent of a crop, while those that bloomed 

 just after them were almost a total failure on account of the frost. 

 Those injured the worst were the Palmer; the Older came a little later 

 and they made from 20 to 25 per cent of a crop. The Nemaha and 

 Gregg followed these with a better crop. The fruit was very nice: I 

 never saw finer. I think the Older is one of the coming berries. 

 With us it winters well so far, and the fruit is extra fine. In the 

 market the Older will sell better than the Gregg, and that is saying a 

 good deal for a berry. I know it does not ship well, but we will have 

 to grow a great many more raspberries before we have to ship very far, 

 and it can easily be shipped fifty to one hundred miles. Our great 

 trouble is to get them up into the center of town; they sell at sight. 



Mr. Heath — Did the winter apples drop from the trees before they 

 were fully matured? 



]Mr. Marshall — In some instances they did, but generally they 

 were pretty well matured before they dropped off, and they kept very 

 well. We thought in September, during those hot, dry weeks, that 

 our apples would not keep at all, but we have Grimes' Golden and 

 Jonathan here that had no special care; we just picked them out of 

 the bins. The Grimes' Golden with us is usually gone before this time, 

 but they are in pretty good condition yet; the Jonathan is about ready 

 to decay. 



SUMMER FRUITS IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA. 



W. F. JENKINS. 



Mr. President: I live in Valley county, at Arcadia, about on a 

 line with Omaha 150 miles west from her^. I have been trying to 

 grow fruit there for the past fourteen or fifteen years, and have suc- 

 ceeded far beyond my expectations. I will commence with strawber- 

 ries, and will say in the first place that I came from Michigan, the 

 south central part, where we had a good fruit country, and we can 



