ANNUAL REPORT, I906, VICE-PRES., EIGHTH CONG. DIST. I49 



enormous plant, but the fruit is small. We have an abundance of 

 wild dewberries. I experimented with dewberries from New York 

 stock and raised about a peck to the bush. I raised some two inches 

 long and an inch in diameter. 



"Mr. Brackett: Do you find those dewberries perfectly hardy? 



Mr. Westman : Well, yes-, in a way. It is all a matter of cov- 

 ering. If they are covered up in the usual way with straw, they 

 do not do well at all, but I shovel sand over them, and they keep in 



Borovlnca Apple Tree Loaded ^A'ith Fruit. On Farm of Otto Wasserzieher, 

 Big Lake, Aitkin Co. 



fine shape. The raspberry and blackberry in the sandy district is 

 no good at all, but we had strawberries up there as big as ordinary 

 apples in this district. A man at Hinckley advertised that he would 

 pay a dollar a quart for three quarts of the largest strawberries. He 

 got three quarts containing ten, eleven and twelve berries, respect- 

 ively, to the quart. 



The President: Do you consider those large berries, Mr. Kel- 

 logg? 



