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CARE OF THE BLACKBERRY PLANTATION. 395 
I could. An ordinary drain is apt to fill up. I know that several 
have tried the plan of putting in a box and putting on a screen so 
that all the water goes through two wire screens before it goes 
through the tile. 
Mr. Yahnke: The greatest enemy to the blackberry is drouth, 
and we had a total failure the last two years. I do not think we 
have much of that land the gentleman speaks of, but if we had 1 
hardly think it would do for blackberries. I would like to know 
whether anybody else has had any experience in growing black- 
berries on that kind of land. 
Mr. Underwood: Blackberries do better on higher land. They 
do best on land that has a good proportion of clay in it, better than 
they do on rich, mucky land. I plowed up several acres of black- 
berries on rich land where they did not do well enough to warrant 
keeping. I find they do much better on higher land. 
Mr. Philips (Wis.): In reference to blackberries growing on 
low land. One of the best papers I ever heard in Minnesota was 
one by Mr. Hodges, of St. Paul, on the subject of forestry. He said 
it was safe to plant a tree or shrub where God Almighty intended 
it to grow. The finest blackberries I ever saw in my life grow in 
northern Wisconsin in the marshes where the pine has been cut off. 
As you go up the side of tle ridge you still find them, but they are 
not half the size they are on the low land. I believe the blackberry 
needs moisture. 
Mr. Wright: I had a little experience with wet ground; it is 
a muck soil and laid to tile. Two years ago during a wet season 
a half acre drowned out entirely. I had them there three years, but 
the soil was too wet; it did not dry out in time, and my blackberries 
were killed. It also soured. I concluded blackberries did not want 
to be on ground where the water stands any length of time or where 
it is soggy. I am speaking of the Ancient Briton which I had on 
that ground. 
Mr. Harris: I have been somewhat familiar with blackberries 
for sixty years, and I have seen cases, very rarely though, where 
blackberries grew on low ground better than in any other location, 
but if I had that kind of land the blackberry would be the last crop 
I would put on it. The blackberry will grow right along and bring 
the best results where it is on good clay loam, on land that will bear 
a good crop of corn. When you get the land over-rich, the canes 
are larger and the fruit is not of such good quality. You will make 
more money out of such land by putting it into cabbage, celery 
or onions than you will out of blackberries. 
