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handle a great deal of that kind of stock I am told, and while I have 

 been growing- some of it, I am not prepared to answer Mr. Wedge's 

 question as to the value of it intelligently myself. I believe they 

 would be worth a good deal more and would be more certain to 

 live, but how much more and as to whether it is really the desir- 

 able thing to do, I cannot positively say from experience. I visually 

 plant the one-year old tips. That is what is generally handled, and 

 that is what we have to bring out. 



Mr. J. A. Sampson: Does not the president really think it is the 

 cut worms that destroy the plants. I know the cut worms are very 

 fond of thetu. The past season cut worms have been very thick and 

 have been very destructive to many kinds of vegetation. In some 

 seasons I have noticed that blackcaps would all grow, even from 

 tips. I think, if the president will take notice of the fact, he will find 

 a final solution of the diiSculty. The older plants, one-year old, have 

 a harder stock and more buds, and the consequence is they cannot 

 destroy the plants entirely or so easily as they can the young plants, 

 or tips. 



Pres. Underwood: It is possible that a part of the injury is due 

 to that cause, but I am quite sure it cannot be the cause every season, 

 because I have often seen tips that were entirely dried up and per- 

 ished without having been at all molested by cut worms: in fact 

 they did not grow anything for cut worms to work on. I remember 

 particularly of one case where we shipped a large quantity of black- 

 caps to a party at Baraboo, Wis.; he set them out and made a failure; 

 they would not grow, and he complained in regard to the matter, 

 and the next year we replaced the whole planting, and we gave per- 

 sonal supervision to the packing up of the finest lot of Gregg rasp- 

 berries I ever saw. Thej' had immense clusters of roots, as big as 

 my two fists. I shipped them by freight, and when the3' left they 

 were in the finest condition, with immense tufts of roots. They 

 were planted, and the whole planting was an entire failure after alb 

 either owing to the condition they arrived in or something else, and 

 yet I do not see how they could have been in better condition. It 

 might have been the condition of the soil or of the atmosphere at 

 the time they were planted. So I know there is a good deal of diffi- 

 culty in transplanting the black raspberry tips. I know you can 

 get a nice strong root by transplanting if you grow it one j^ear. Of 

 course, that takes more labor and makes them cost more. 



So far as red raspberries are concerned, I know you can get a bet- 

 ter plant from transplanting the red raspberry, and I know they must 

 be more valuable. Whether planters have experiment in that line is 

 what I want to bring out. There are some planters in this room 

 who have had experience along this line, and that is the experience 

 I want to draw out. I have had more or less, and I believe that is 

 the proper thing to do with the red raspberr3\ 



Mr. Smith: I got a circular from a man who claimed to have 

 great success with black raspberries, and he said he did not sell 

 anything but two-year old plants, practically. He transplanted the 

 tips in nurserj' rows and then sold the plants the next year. He 

 also brought out what we all know, that it is a serious loss to plant 

 the tips, as a considerable percentage of them die. I was much im- 



