74 ANNUAL REPORT 



DEWBEERY CULTURE. 



The following letter was read by the Secretary, which was the 

 occasion of considerable discussion: 



LETTER FROM MR. LUDLOW. 



WoRTHiNGTON, Jan. 6, 1889. 



S. D. Hillman, Secretary, etc. 



Dear Sir: I received your notice some time since that you 

 had booked me for a report on the culture of the dewberry. I 

 am sorry to say I have not a plant on my farm and know nothing 

 of their culture. The only nice field of dewberries I ever saw was 

 in New Jersey a number of years ago on my father's farm on the 

 i>acJc bone of Stony Hill. When this earth was made I think 

 they must have had more stone than they needed and dumped 

 them there; at any rate there was not a weed nor a bit of grass 

 grew on about three acres. But from somewhere down between 

 the stones the dewberries came up wild and covered the stones, 

 (for there was no earth there to be seen), and hung full of very 

 fine fruit. They were always clean, for no matter how hard it 

 raiued there was no mud there. They were only worth from two 

 to three cents a quart, and a long way from market at that, so 

 we used what we could and left bushels to rot. 



But I am out of order; I was asked to write on the culture of 

 the dewberry, and we didn't cultivate that field. 



Hoping to hear from someone that has had experience with 

 bewberries in this state, I am. 



Respectfully yours, 



H. J. Ludlow". 



Mr. Urie. In regard to the dewberry I would say that it 

 grows in the South on the poor lands there, but I think it would 

 be a failure to put it on our rich soil, unless we could find a 

 place fit for nothing else and covered with nothing but stone. I 

 don't think it could be raised here successfully. I have picked 

 dewberries in the South by the quart and by the bushel. It is 

 a fine fruit in that country but it could not be cultivated here. 



