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Holland. I find, as Mr. Elliot says, there is something that 

 affects the Stewart Seedling, but it is one of the last currants 

 in the market, and they are very salable. Two years ago I 

 set out this new patch of Long Bunch Holland, :200, North 

 Star, 200, and Stewart Seedling, 200, and 100 of the old variety of 

 Red Dutch and some black currants. The year after I got 

 quite a little crop from the Long Bunch Holland and the North 

 Star, but the last year I found on the North Star a new compli- 

 cation; they bore too much. They were covered with fruit so 

 I had to tie the bushes together, and they were loaded so heavi- 

 ly that some of the branches got down to the ground, and for 

 a money crop they beat them all. For my part, so far as I can 

 find out, there is more money in the North Star than in any 

 other currant. I also had Pay's Prolific, but I dug them up 

 and burned them. There is no money in them. 



Mr. 0. L. Smith: Before we leave this subject I want to .say 

 a word in regard to it, because our report is going to the 

 farmers of the state, and they are interested as well as those 

 who grow for market I want to endorse what my friend here 

 has said about the tied Dutch, also, and the White Grape, 

 which he tells me he uses in his own family and on his own 

 table. If I were to give the very best of my judgment today, 

 after'thirty-three years' experience in Minnesota, if a farmer 

 friend came to me and wanted my opinion as to planting two 

 varieties of currants, I would say plant the White Grape and 

 the Red Dutch. I know there is not so much money made b}'' 

 those who have bushels to sell, but for that very reason I would 

 recommend them. I have the Red Dutch. They do not grow 

 quite so large as the other kinds, and they do not sell so well 

 on the market, but my folks ask me to bring home those little 

 red currants; they say they make better jelly. I took some of 

 those white currants and my girls mixed four boxes of black 

 raspberries and twelve boxes of White Grape currants, and 

 now the neighbors want just that mixture for jelly. I say for 

 the amateur the Red Dutch and the White Grape are the best 

 varieties of currants. 



Mr. Hawkins: I am a farmer and I raise currants of the 

 small varieties. My better half is the fruit half in our house, 

 and she says it makes a difference in the fruit as to the amount 

 of juice, and when I come in with the currants she wants those 

 little red ones. We like the White Grape best and the Red 

 Dutch is a close second. 



Mr. Barnes, (Wis.): Prom the farmer's standpoint I think 



