CURRANTS and THEIR TREATMENT IN COMMERCIAL GARDEN 587 



you feel good branches or stocks in each hill. I also cut back 

 the 1 >;t si season's growth one third or one half, thereby securing 

 better fruit. Be careful to carry oul and burn .'ill branches and 

 rubbish generally, thus ridding your patch of myriads oi insects 



I have been favored with good prices for No. I fruit, varying 

 from $1.50 to $3 per 24 quarl case. There is no profit al $1.50 

 pei 1 ase foi 1 urrants of Fay or Red ( toss varieties. 



( lean boxes and nice looking packages do much toward selling 

 currants or any other products. Bui there is one crime committed 

 each season by fruil pickers and growers, too an offense oi the 

 iikisi unmitigated nature to perpetrate on patient, willing ;ni<l 

 long-suffering customers. There are thousands of cases sen! ofl 

 df fruil farms each season containing boxes nol more than two 

 thirds full. I would like to be used as I use others, and I consider 

 it ;i firsl class outrage to sell berries unless each and everj box 

 is full. We sell berries by the box, and it means a full box every 

 time. I know parties who for twenty years have sold fruit, and 

 never allow a box to leave the place unless full, and they have 

 customers today that have traded with them eighteen years And 

 ih<\ scud theii friends, too, thai thej may sec the "wonderful 

 things done." 



Another matter: I never pul leaves, nor sticks, nor worms in 

 boxes thai we send off. We always instruct pickers and then look 

 them up thai .-ill trash must be pul in boxes by themselves, and we 



p.i\ them the Bame for them as g 1 ones, in thai way Mure is 



no proiit nor object to pickers to do such work unless it is to be 



mean. We need careful attention on this line, as there was coin 



plaint made by many during [901. 



Mr. Poore: "I believe in the production of new fruits; it is 



too often as it is in the I ;r,e ol an invention, ! lie in veil ha does nol gel 



anything. I think the originator of a new variety oi fruil should 

 have a patent on it, I believe the states should provide for the 

 compensation of the originator oi thai fruit. It usually gets into 

 the hands of speculators, and the originator does nol gel anything. 



"If the wind is strong and drying, the windbreak should be 

 partly of evergreens, if possible, so as to exclude it entirely from 



the orchard. N'oiwav spruce and fir arc l;ir:;el\ used. I'.ul c\ci 



greens grow so slowly il is usually better to intersperse them with 

 quick growing poplars or willows. The main poinl in everj case is 



tO use those lives which will grow the fastest ;m<l thrive the best in 

 V6U1 locality." 



