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SMALL FRUITS. 



Red Dutch currants are a success wherever I have set them, and yield 

 bountifully whenever the season is not too dry. Other kinds have not 

 proved so satisfactory, though the fruit is larger. 



Gooseberries — American Cluster and Houghton's seedling yield enor- 

 mously about two seasons out of three. The currant worms trouble 

 them however much more than they do currants. 



Raspberries and strawberries demand a moister soil than they find 

 in my garden. Outside of the level tract with the gravel subsoil above 

 described, with a little winter protection, they give fairly satisfactory 

 results. 



Grapes have proved a failure on the gravelly land, but do well in the 

 woods and on the south side of lakes. I have about two hundred vines 

 on my farm where the subsoil is clay. These are just beginning to 

 bear and the promise for the future is most flattering. 



On motion the meeting adjourned till Friday morning. 



MORNING SESSION. 



FouKTH Day, Friday, Jan. 20, 1888. 



The meeting was called to order at 9 o'clock by President Elliot. 



PRIZE ESSAYS. 



Mr. Pearce, from the Committee on Prize Essays on Grape Grow- 

 ing in Minnesota, presented the following: 



Your comipittee on the best essay on Grai)e Growing report that 

 there is one essay competing for the prize, by R. A. Latham, of Excel- 

 sior, aged nineteen years, and who is entitled to the prize. 



M. Pearce, ^ 



E H. S. Dartt, > Committee. 



J. M. Underwood. ) 



GRAPE CROWING IN MINNESOTA. 

 By R. A. Latham, Excelsior, Minn. 



LOCATION. 



In the selection of a location for a vineyard a place should be 

 chosen in a neighborhood where vine growing is already known to be 

 a success. The place selected should be if possible a south or east 



