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plant these with a row of grapes, because there would be a good deal of difficulty in tak- 
ing the strawberries out later on. I do not fancy planting them in the rows. To makes 
success of planting strawberries the soil requires to be made very rich. Another crop is 
gooseberries. From currants I have been able to make almost as much per acre as from any 
other fruit I have ever grown. No matter how cold the weather you are almost sure of 
a crop of currants, although this year I have a very poor one; but we never get a total 
failure and generally get good cro} s when we give them careful attention and fight against 
the worms, which we must do. Just here I may say that I met with a difficulty this 
year. Hellebore has been the remedy all along, but the hellebore I got this year is so” 
very mild that the currant worms will be killing the bushes next year. I have planted and 
grown raspberries very largely and make as much money with them as with any fruit, I 
plant so as to cultivate both ways and I use cuJtivatois with knives. The sucker ques- 
tion is no matter of difliculty with me. I have been able to get very large returns from 
raspberries. I find that although you may get more strawberries to the acre, raspberries 
will give you ten or twelve cents a basket as readily as strawberries will six, and I have 
always realised readily with raspberries. One reason perhaps is that I compete with our 
American friends in their own markets. Nearly all the raspberries I grow are sold in the 
United States. In that I have the local market I have just been contending for, and in 
operating the local market I have followed the plan cf taking orders from private families, 
which J can very readily do where Lam known ; and I get the retail prices and my baskets 
back. Ihave no baskets or crates lost or stolen. I can pick my berries at three o'clock in the 
afternoon and at six o’clock in the evening I am home with the money in my pocket, Black- 
berries can be sold at good prices and are grown with profit ata few points, but I would no , 
recommend generally the culture of them even on this Niagara peninsula. I have neve 
made a great success of them, but some men have, so it is not for me to say because I have 
failed with a certain fruit that no one else will make a success with it, and I find that 
other people in other places do succeed. Quinces can be grown on a ten acre plot ; they 
can be planted closely, as I stated before, and other things can be grown between while 
they are young. I would grow plums also, especially if I had some clay. I have an 
immense crop on my trees and I never fail in having a crop of some kind, although mine 
is sandy soil on which we have to fight the curculio, I would also grow pears in @ 
limited area like this. Plums, pears and quinces can be grown where your space i 
limited because by giving the care and cultivation I have spoken of a great deal can be 
accomplished in a small space where the land is rich. Now, in dealing with ten ac o8 
you must remember that you are to be confined to that area and you must no 
at once plant the entire area with fruit because the fruit must be renewed 
from time to time. One of the secretsof success in small fruit cultivatio: 
is the renewing of your cultivation very frequently ; with raspberries and gooseberrie; 
perhaps once in seven years, and oftener in the case of strawberries, and it is alway! 
desirable to have some space reserved for that purpose which may be used otherwise i 
the meantime. Anyone who would succeed in the growing of small fruits must be pre 
pared to do an immense amount of cultivation as compared with the ordinary farmer wh 
puts in his crop of corn or potatoes aud cultivates it once or twice. I find it necessary t 
cultivate my ground twelve or fifteen times a year, and to hoe nearly as often, thoug! 
hoeing is not necessary so often, because if the ground is rich the shading of fruits wi 
prevent the growth of weeds. We can keep weeds down very easily where the land is i 
thorough cultivation. 
The SecrETARY.—Which would you rather have: ten acres of fruit planted an 
cultivated in the manner you have described or a hundred acres of ordinary farm witho 
any fruit? 
Mr. Morpren.—Well, of late years farming has been rather a poor business and 
would hardly be fair to make a comparison. It would be a mistake to think that 
would get from ten acres of fruit the same profit as from one hundred acres of ord:nat 
farm land with one-tenth of the expenditure, but in farming one hundred acres there is 
considerable investment for implements and buildings, and it is difficult to get your inte 
est out of it. If you bring that down to ten acres of course there are a great ma 
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