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going down, but raise the price five cents and the market will 

 be rushed. Therefore, just as soon as the commercial grower 

 sees that the market is filled up, he should hold his currants; 

 he should wait until the market gets empty and then rush them 

 in as fast as possible, and he will sell them at a profitable price. 



Mr. Dewain Cook: I want to say a few words about the Long 

 Bunch Holland: I have grown currants for market and found 

 the Red Dutch the most profitable; I find the late currants sell 

 better than the early ones. This year the Long Bunch Holland 

 was the best currant I had. I shall drop the Red Dutch. The 

 Long Bunch Holland did not last much longer than the Red 

 Dutch; when the Red Dutch was gone, the Long Bunch Holland 

 was gone. As a late currant I do not think it held on much 

 longer than the Red Dutch. 



Mr. Richardson: I think we had Long bunch Holland four 

 weeks after the Red Dutch were gone. I have bushes there 

 that stand as high as my head. 



Mr. Charles Patten, (Iowa:) I wish to submit the statement 

 that the difference in the soil accounts for the difference in the 

 same variety of currants. This gentleman (Mr. Barnes) has 

 a very deep, rich, moist soil, while Mr. Cook has a drier soil, 

 and the atmosphere is also drier than where this gentleman 

 lives, and if one will observe he will notice the fact that almost 

 any variety of currants will do better on clay soil, and almost 

 any clay soil, if properly enriched, will do better than ordinary 

 soil. The old Cherry currant is an example of this, and also 

 the White Grape. The White Grape is worth double, grown on 

 clay soil than it is on prairie soil. The gentleman spoke of the 

 Prince Albert. If grown on a clay soil it will be a success, but 

 if grown on prairie soil it will not be worth much; so, as I said 

 before, the soil will explain the difference. 



Mr. Barnes: I would like to ask Mr. Patten whether he 

 would grow Long Bunch Holland or Prince Albert? 



Mr. Patten: On clay soil I would plant the Prince Albert, 

 because it is a nicer currant. 



Fertilizing Barren Plum Trees.— An uncle of mine had a 

 clump of plum trees which were, to all appearances, healthy, ma- 

 ture trees. They blossomed freely each spring-, but never had fruit, 

 until upon investigation it was found that the blossoms lacked fer- 

 tilizing pollen. As an experiment a wild plum tree that was just in 

 blossom was cut and brought to the orchard, where it was set up in 

 a barrel of water in the midst of the heretofore barren trees. The 

 experiment resulted in an abundance of fruit. The wild tree fur- 

 nished the fertilizing pollen which the other trees did not supply. 



