230 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



President Steveus: What was the largest yield you had, Mr. Davis? 



E. B. Davis: I can not speak for other growers for that season of the 

 year, I am always too busy to know of any body else's business, but my 

 own yield was $225 per acre. Only had three varieties, Haverland, Bu- 

 bach and Biederwood. 



H. W. Henry: I sold some Warfield strawberry plants to a gentleman 

 who planted them along the side of the hill. When he saw me the next 

 year he says, "Mr. Henry, those Warfield plants you sold me are no good 

 at all." The next year one or two of the plants got down into some rich 

 black dirt. The next time he saw me he says, "Mr. Henry, those War- 

 field's are the finest strawberries I ever saw. I hope you will excuse me 

 for condemning them so soon." 



President Stevens: We will now hear the list of raspberries and 

 blackberries. 



RASPBERRIES FOR NORTHERN INDIANA. 



BY SNEAD THOMAS, MARION. 



As I have almost quit growing raspberries in a commercial way, I do 

 not feel qualified to say what varieties to plant for commercial purposes 

 to secure the best results in Northern Indiana. However, as I have been 

 assigned to that sul).1ect, I will give some of the varieties, that is, the 

 most extensively planted and thought to give the best results here in our 

 county in North Central Indiana. 



The soil and location has a great deal to do with the producing of a 

 paying crop of raspberries. Then, again, the man at the helm has as 

 much or more to do with the successful growing of raspberries as the 

 soil or location. The raspberry has a great many wants to be supplied, 

 and the man that anticipates its wants and supplies them just at the 

 right time that it needs them, is the man that succeeds, even if the soil 

 and location may appear to ))e against him. Here in Grant County we 

 find a sandy soil, or a soil of a cold, heavy clay nature, or a black alluvial 

 loam which is not very good for growing raspberries. We find in one 

 locality a grower who is pinning his faith to one variety, while another 

 grower, if not in the same neighborhood, only a few miles away, is suc- 

 ceeding equally as well witli another variety. 



As to varieties.— Of the red variety there is but few of them grown, 

 the Loudon taking the lead of all others, followed very closely by the 

 Cuthbert, and that by JNIiller. One grower who is making a specialty of 



