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we took them up as early as we could; they would start too 

 soon. 



Mr. Pearse. My second question is, What is the best way to 

 keep grapes, the fruit ? 



Prof. Eagan. Don't eat them too soon. 



Mr. AUyn, Preserve them. 



Mr. Pearse. No, I want them fresh. I want to hear from Mr. 

 Latham, Mr. Gould, or others. 



Mr. Frisselle. I can give you my experience. I have been 

 enabled to keep grapes by packing them in baskets as you would 

 put them on the market, keeping them in a cool, dry place, and 

 covered tight. Put on a glass cover and keep them covered un- 

 til you wish to use them. I have just finished eating lona and 

 Delaware that were kept in baskets. 



Prof. Green. I have generally kept grapes for five or six years 

 past until about Christmas. Our plan is to use trays about fif- 

 teen inches long and five or six inches wide. Set the trays one 

 on top of another. We cut off the bad berries and lay them in 

 single layers in the trays, then place them in the cellar in a cool 

 place, a little damp, and we keep them there until Christmas. 

 Sometimes we may have a warm spell, and then we put a couple 

 hundred pounds of ice into the cellar. 



Mr. Pearse. What varieties keep best ! 



Prof. Green. Nothing keeps as well as Catawba. 



Mr. Frisselle. The lona keeps well. 



Prof. Green. It is a fine keeper, but hard to ripen. 



Mr. Gray from the special committee appointed to confer with 

 the city board of health, presented the following report: 



We called on the city health officers agreeably to appoint- 

 ment, and listened to suggestions made in reference to the subject 

 of the disposition of future accumulations of stable manure in 

 the city. During the winter months the market gardeners 

 about the city have taken care of the bulk of it, but during the 

 summer months there is a daily accumulation of from four 

 hundred to 1,000 two-horse loads to be disposed of, the prac- 

 tice heretofore having been to dump a large portion thereof in 

 the river. For obvious reasons this practice can not be contin- 

 ued. The health officer informs your committee that he has con- 

 ferred with the railroad companies in reference to shipping this 

 manure out of the city, and finds them liberal in their ideas, and 

 willing to assist in the solution of this question. The city pro- 



