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advise a novice who is just beginning to plant blackberries to plant 

 them seven feet apart, because in three years he would be disgusted 

 and dig them up. It is impossible to get through them at seven feet 

 apart. I started mine at ten feet, and they were too close. 



Mr. Wright : I have had some experience with blackberries, 

 having had three acres on my place. They were planted eight feet 

 apart, and the patch is still on the place. I had another patch six 

 feet apart, and I never had better returns than from that corner of 

 the farm. They were loaded tremendously, but the canes had to be 

 kept cut back. I had a wire on each side of the row, and I cut them 

 back severely. This paper dealt with the small fruit garden. I was 

 not supposed to give large growers any information, but it was for 

 the benefit of the general farmer, and he would think it foolish and 

 a waste of land to plant them so far apart. I was getting just as 

 near to the farmer's standpoint as I could get ; that was my idea. 

 I always planted my blackberries eight feet apart, blackcaps also. 



Mr. F. D. Wells: I would like to ask Mr. Wright how he re- 

 stricts the Senator Dunlap ? 



Mr. Wright : I asked Mr. Kellogg how he did it, and he said 

 after they got full enough he went along with a garden rake and 

 pulled them out. I had a few this year and I simply pulled out the 

 weak plants. I never did very much thinning myself. The Senator 

 Dunlap planted 2^/2 feet apart in the row and the rows five feet 

 apart will not overrun very much unless it is an exceedingly wet 

 season. 



Mr. Jewett : I think a good horticulturist will profit by the 

 failures of others. I must coincide with Mr. Wright's views in re- 

 gard to the Loudon raspberry. I succeeded in getting some nine or 

 ten acres, a fine stand, but a weakness struck them ; I think Prof. 

 Green told me it was root gall, but, anyway, the result was I plowed 

 all of them up. The other berries I had growing, the King and 

 others, were not affected by them. 



Mr. Wright : I planted the Loudon and recommended it for 

 two or three years, but I got rid of all of them. A disease has got 

 into them which afifects them more than anything else. I have 

 furnished boxes to the growers for the past two years, and there has 

 been a terrific complaint about the Loudon. The general expression 

 is that they will never plant another Loudon. 



Mr. Frank Yahnke : I have had the floor several times, but I 

 cannot keep still on this Loudon question. I believe these gentlemen 

 are right. As far as I can see the trouble is only local. The trouble 

 is not in the variety, but it is the location, and the best way to stamp 

 out the trouble is not to plant of the infected plants. Get new stock 

 from a different locality where the trouble does not exist. It is like 

 the remedy the doctor prescribed. He had a patient sick with ague, 

 and he cautioned him against eating beans. This patient was a 

 blacksmith, a strong man, and accustomed to eating a hearty meal, 

 and he disregarded the doctor's order and partook heartily of baked 

 beans. For some reason he recovered rapidly from his ague. The 

 doctor noted the result, and for the next ague patient, who happened 

 to be a tailor, he prescribed baked beans. The tailor ate the beans 



