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ier and freer from blight. I believe there are some varieties in 
the orchard of Mr. Lightly’s that are worthy of propagation. I 
believe that orchard should be visited every year, and Mr. 
Kimball and myself know where they are. 
Mr. Dartt: Will Mr. Harris tell us what he knows ahout the 
Minnetonka apple? 
Mr. Harris: Iinquired all around but nobody knew anything 
about it, and Gideon says he knows nothing about it. A few 
years ago there was an apple out which was said to have orig- 
inated at Minnetonka and was sold around our place. After it 
began to bear it proved to be the Ben Davis, and I suppose the 
Minnetonka apple is of the same stripe. 
THE SUCKER AND CAP VARIETIES OF RASPBERRIES 
COMPARED AS TO PROFITS. 
H, C. ELLERGODT, LANESBORO. 
When I was asked by our secretary to write a paper on this sub- 
ject I wished it had referred to watermelons and muskmelons rather 
than berries, because I believe I could then have given some of our 
members a good impetus toward planting and raising more of this 
delicious and thirst-quenching fruit, as this has been my occupa- 
tion for twenty years. 
Fruit raising with me is of a more recent date, so that the conclu- 
sions I have come to regarding which is the more profitable variety 
to grow, the sucker or the blackcap raspberry, may not hold good 
here in the future and for other localities. 
The growing of blackcaps here has been a success. They have 
produced a good crop every year, and that without wintér protec- 
tion. 
The red raspberries have some years produced a good crop also, 
but other seasons they have been a failure, although they have been 
covered in winter. Then, by comparing one year with another, the 
black ones have produced the more fruit and the berries of both 
kinds have sold here in this and adjoining markets for the same 
price most of the time except, ina few instances, when the blackcaps 
have sold for alittle less than the red raspberry; but I believe that 
the general trend of the market in the larger cities is that the berries 
of the blackcap variety sell for less than the red raspberries. 
Taking everything into consideration the red raspberries cost the 
more of the two varieties to raise, because a constant war has to be 
waged against the young suckers that they shall not sap the life 
blood out the parent plant and hinder it from bringing forth a 
crop of berries. The trimming out of the canes to the right number 
in the hill is also an item of expense which is not so much with the 
blackcaps, and my experience has led me to believe that the red or 
suckering kinds are more liable to disease, making it necessary to 
apply preventives and fungicides, which also cuts down the profit 
of that variety—so that my verdict will be in favor of the blackcap 
varieties. 
