1 68 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



I used to grow about twenty-five kinds. From these we selected 

 what we considered the best and now have but sixteen, and some 

 of these have not had a fair trial yet', as the strawberry crop has been 

 very poor the last two years. From these sixteen kinds we have 

 chosen for our main crop Warfield, Senator Dunlap, August Luther, 

 Splendid and Brandywine, 



Our raspberries and blackberries are planted in the apple or- 

 chard. For red raspberries I mark the rows with a two-horse 

 marker, five feet apart, running north and south, and four feet apart 

 running east and west, and every fifth row we plant in apple frees, 

 twenty feet apart, which makes our apple trees twenty by thirty feet' 

 and raspberries four by five feet apart. By planting this way they 

 are but little more trouble than a piece of corn, as they can be 

 cultivated both ways. We try to give them a shallow cultivation 

 every week — same as the strawberries — until the berries begin to 

 ripen, and again after the heavy pickings are over. 



I plant currants and gooseberries same as raspberries. 



Blackberries and black raspberries should be planted off by 

 themselves, as they can be cultivated only one way. I plant black- 

 berries four by eight feet apart and black raspberries four by seven 

 feet apart and cultivate the same as red raspberries. I grow of the 

 red varieties : Early King, Miller and Loudon ; of the black at 

 present we have Cumberland, Conrath and Older ; blackberries, 

 Ancient Briton, Snyder and a few Rathbun. 



Currants : Stewart's Seedling, Red Cross and Long Bunch 

 Holland. 



Gooseberries : Downing. 



This, now, brings our subject to the latter part of June , with the 

 strawberries beginning to ripen and ready for market. 



We sell a great many of our berries to consumers. We have 

 customers whom we see every day, depending on us for berries. 

 "Our best berries have always been of such quality as to command 

 two or three cents per quart above the retail grocery price. 



We never have had to solicit very much trade as the berries 

 talk for themselves. When they ripen too fast, we take a load to 

 market in the morning and have another fresh load ready for the 

 retail trade in the afternoon. 



Mr. Kellogg (Wis) : Mr. Farmer gave us a list of strawberries, 

 and I would like to ask him whether the Dunlap is satisfactory in 

 productiveness. 



Mr. Farmer : This year they did well. We have not had much 

 experience with them, but this year they did very well. 



Mr. Kellogg : Do you have matted rows ? 



Mr. Farmer : Yes. The berries were of good size, but they stop- 

 ped bearing all at once. 



