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€ome to the surface, while great clouds of adversity may be just be- 

 hind them. So I see today as great opportunities in fruit-culture to 

 the hold-fast young man as there was 30 years ago, when I left a $1500 

 a year situation to become a fruit-grower. 



The berries that gave me the greatest satisfaction in product and 

 profit this year were : First, Oapt. Jack and Warfield, equally matched ; 

 second, Robinson, Parker Earl, Windsor Chief, Crescent, Grandy, all 

 about equal in product, but varying in size. The third in product and 

 profit were Bubacb, Glendale, Parry, Haverlane, Miner, Jesse, Beder- 

 wood. The weather next season may reverse the value of some of the 

 above sorts, or advance the product in size and quantity. 



Of the new varieties fruited my first choice is Paris, King, Mus- 

 kingum, Saunders ; second choice. Splendid, Princeton, Princes, No 

 Name or Grandy, Bell Rio. The novelties that will bear first crop next 

 season most promising in plant growth are Bissell, Brandy Wine, 

 Cyclone and Aroma. 



Our earliest berries are Michel, Beiderwood, Van Deman, Barton ; 

 largest sorts are Bnbach, Muskingum, Gandy, Paris, King, Jessie. The 

 latest sorts are Windsor Chief, Gandy, Glendale, Mt. Vernon and 

 Robinson, the latest from which I gather the last dish of the season. 



I hope to see some good results from the novelties that will fruit 

 next year. All progressive berry-growers are eagerly looking forward 

 for a new strawberry that will supplant all others in size; then for a 

 medium size, firm sort, that will stand long trips to distant markets. 



A few old, hardshell, bourbon fruit-growers cry out against so 

 many new fruits being introduced ; but their cries will avail nothing. 

 New fruits will out. So long as consumers seek for best kinds, fruit- 

 growers will try for perfection. Testing new fruits is a part of the 

 fruit-growers' education, and it adds some life to the Experiment Sta- 

 tion. The aim of the enterprising fruit-grower should be upward into 

 light, and not backward into darkness. 



Raspberries were a better paying crop this year on uplands than 

 last year, as the needed rain came in time to save them. On low bot- 

 tom lands, away from the river, they were about all killed with frost. 



The black sorts that gave the best satisfaction were Progress > 

 Kansas and Queen of the West. On account of the earliness of Pro- 

 gress and Kansas, better prices were obtained for them. The later 

 sorts brought lower prices. Our city and near-by markets were not 

 well supplied with red sorts. Prices of reds ranged from $3.50 to $4 

 per crate. 



Blackberries ranged lower this year than for several years. I 

 attribute the low prices of blackberries to the largeness of the crop 



