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difference in picking. I did not go into a regular discussion of 

 the manner of raising them in the paper. Of course yon should 

 remove the old canes; those are what hurts one's conscience. I 

 have found that the Cuthbert wants winter protection. The 

 Turner will endure the cold winters better than the Cuthbert. 



Mr. T. M. Smith. I don't think you can raise the blackcaps 

 without covering, but you may the reds. Davison's Thornless 

 did well with me, ^ut in three or four years it would kill out. 



Mr. Harris. I think the Gregg is better but it is a tender 

 variety. The Ohio is promising to be very good. 



Mr. T. M. Smith. The Tyler is also a very good variety. 



Mr. Harris. The Mammoth Cluster has not borne well with 

 me. 



Mr. C. L. Smith. The Mammoth Cluster bore better than 

 any other variety I had. The berries are worth twenty cents 

 a box for all I can get of them. 



Mr. Jackson. I am glad that Mr. Harris has brought up this 

 question of short measure in berries. I think it is one of the 

 growing tendencies in both cities here; we have got to meet it 

 and it ought in some way to be brought before the people. I 

 am aware that I am being cheated when I buy my berries, but I 

 hardly know how to help it. I find the berries will fall short 

 every time where they pour them into one of their quart cups. 



Mr. Harris. They put them in too loose. 



Mr. Jackson. You are getting doubly cheated and it is worse 

 now than it was last year. The boxes are smaller and the bot- 

 toms are nearer the tops. 



Mr. Woolsey. I tried for four or five years to give a good 

 dry-measure quart and they didn't like it. I found that people 

 generally would pay more for the small boxes. They want to 

 be cheated, and so now I want to cheat them. [Laughter.] Now 

 I buy the smallest boxes there are in the market. I have found 

 grocery men shaking berries from large boxes into smaller ones, 

 and when I have asked what they were doing they have replied 

 they were making more quarts, and since I have found out that 

 the American people love to be swindled I love to swindle them. 



Mr. Gray. I notice two places in the essay where Mr. Harris^ 

 recommends, in putting on manure in growing strawberries, to 

 put on unleached ashes. All through my life I have been con- 

 nected with agriculture, and this is the first instance where I 

 have heard a man recommend putting ashes and manure together, 

 at any one time. I had supposed it had become a settled fact 



