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Mr. 0. Ij. Smith: Does size and color count as much as 

 quality? 



Mr. Lyons: Size counts a good deal. 



Mr. Pond: With me the Stewart Seedling is a very unprofit- 

 able currant. As soon as the currant begins to ripen, it begins 

 to drop off, and by the time you are ready to gather the crop 

 one-third has dropped off the bunch, and since a later currant 

 is the more profitable you are losing considerable in that way. 

 The Stewart Seedling has to be picked so early you do not get 

 a good price for it, or else they have dropped off so much that 

 you have very ragged bunches, and they will not sell well for 

 the rest of the season. 



Mrs. Crooker: I would like to speak a word for the Stewart 

 Seedling . I would not like to have the report go out that the 

 Stewart Seedling is an unprofitable variety. With us it is the 

 very latest, and they sold for $3.00 per bushel. 



Mr. Wheaton: The berries on the end of the stem drop off, 

 and they do not carry a full bunch. 



Mr. Philips, (Wis. ): A commission man in Chicago told me, 

 "You fellows in your horticultural societies will have to grow 

 some late fruit, for the women will not stand over the stove in 

 hot weather to make preserves." 



Mr. Taylor: After raising currants in Minnesota for twenty- 

 five years,! have not found anything better than the Red Dutch. 

 For home and table use I use the White grape, and for jelly we 

 use the Red Dutch, and for late use we use the Long Bunch 

 Holland. We had the last in September; they remained on the 

 bunches very late. I would advise farmers to plant Red 

 Dutch. 



Mr. Hawkins: There is such a wide difference in those re- 

 ports. Has not fertilization and cultivation a good deal to do 

 with it? 



Mr. Harris: The soil has a good deal to do with it. 



Mr. Beardsley: I have one reason to advance in answer to 

 the question why it is they want a late currant. In fact, there 

 are two reasons, one is that, as a rule, people do not buy their 

 currants while the market is going down, thinking they will 

 get a little cheaper, but just as soon as they begin to advance 

 they will begin to buy, and when currants go up fifty cents to 

 a dollar a crate then is the time to sell them. 



Mr. Yahnke: I believe there are more dollars and cents in 

 the Red Dutch than in any other, but it is just as the last 

 speaker says, nobody wants to buy an article when the price is 



