462 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Mr. Elliot: I want to say that the berries he grubbed out were 
the Stone’s Hardy. 
Mr. Yahnke: Well, I would grub those out too. (Laughter.) 
I want to say a little more about drawbacks. About fifteen years 
ago I had a piece of ground that brought me more money than 
all the rest of my land. The berries stood on that patch seven 
years, and I covered them seven years, covered them with dirt every 
year, so I thought I would help them by manuring them. My 
neighbor said I would spoil them by manuring, but I said if I could 
spoil anything by manuring I would not have it. My neighbor was 
right; I killed them all. I don’t know that the manure killed them, 
but I know they are dead. (Laughter.) After that we did not have 
good crops; I don’t know whether the manure was to blame or what 
it was; it may have been in the soil. But I say now what I have 
previously said, that drouth is the greatest enemy of the blackberry. 
On the other hand, I do not believe blackberries can stand wet feet 
either. (Laughter.) I know Mr. Underwood said the other day 
that clay soil was the best, and I agree with him that a good soil 
with a clay subsoil retains the water the best. If we have got a 
good location the main thing is to get good plants, and I would 
never advise any one to set plants from an old plantation. That 
is a serious drawback. 
Mrs. Kennedy: In Pennsylvania we used to go on the moun- 
tains to get our blackberries, where they were high and dry, but 
they grew on clay soil where nothing else would grow, and we 
picked larger blackberries there than any I ever saw in this state. 
Now where is the trouble? 
The President: Any springs? 
Mrs. Kennedy: I never found any springs up there. | 
Mr. C. O.. Woodruff: I would like to hear from those men 
who raise blackberries as to whether there is any difference in 
planting them on a slope, north or south or east or west. Perhaps 
we have not all got land that is suitable so far as the slope is con- 
cerned. . 
Mr. Harris: The north slope is the best on my place. 
Mr. Yahnke: I would prefer a northeast slope in preference to 
a southern. : “he 
Mr. Underwood: Is it not simply that the northern slope 
furnishes more moisture? I admit they need a certain amount 
of moisture, but you cannot make me believe they need a swamp. 
With a northern exposure there is less evaporation, but if you do 
not have such a slope the next best thing is to give thorough 
cultivation. I like Mr. Wright’s paper until he says he plows over 
