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Mr. Sauter: What variety of raspberry is more apt to get 

 this kind of disease? 



Mr. Hoerner: I would not want to make an exact state- 

 ment for this reason: the only information we get is from 

 growers, and it may be due to cultural practises. 



Mr. Pfeiffer: Are black raspberries more susceptible 

 than the red to these diseases? 



Mr. Hoerner: As far as we know, spore blight does 

 not affect the blacks and purples, simply the reds; crown gall 

 affects the blacks as much as the reds, and anthracnose is as 

 apt to be on the black berries as the red. 



Mr. Underwood : I think we are more scared than hurt 

 about diseases. It seems to be the province of some people 

 to all the while be climbing hills and crossing bridges and 

 thinking that something is going to happen that is not right. 

 Now, you know we had a great big scare about infantile paralysis 

 this last summer, and they had posted up in our towns that 

 you must not let your children go out on the street, you must 

 keep your children at home and all that, when the facts are 

 that all they needed to do was to take care of their children, 

 feed them right and see that they slept right, that they were 

 well taken care of, and they would not have infantile paraylsis. 

 It was proved that infantile paralysis was not an infectious 

 disease at all, and an eminent physician in New York City 

 said he would undertake to cure a hundred cases of infantile 

 paralysis without any medicine whatever, just by the process 

 of right living. Live right and you will not be sick, take good 

 care of your raspberries, and they will not have any disease. 



It is the care of the raspberries that counts, and all this 

 hullabaloo about root gall and hairy root and all that is alto- 

 gether unnecessary. If you will plant the raspberries, take 

 good care of them, on good land, you will not have any trouble. 

 We grew raspberries until we could not sell them. We had so 

 many raspberries we had to plow them up, we could not get a 

 market for them, and we never thought anything about this 

 disease. We have been at it for years and years. So do not 

 get scared. It tires me to hear the diseases and troubles of life 

 emphasized. We have not any diseases, and we have not any 

 troubles if we just live right. (Applause). 



Prof. Stakman : I do not want to start a discussion, but I 

 want to take exception to what has been said. If any are skeptical 

 about the specific nature of these diseases and about their organic 

 causes and the germ theory, I wish they would come and stay 

 with us at the University Farm, and we will undertake to 

 treat them cordially and instruct them about the real nature 

 of disease. What the gentleman has said about the raspberry 

 is absolutely true, and the speaker who has just addressed you 

 has tried to impress that fact, and it is true that the right 

 care would prevent the disease. Any progressive fruit grower 

 in any part of the country where fruit growing is on a com- 



