230: = MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
REPORT OF H. J. LUDLOW, WORTHINGTON. 
Mr. Ludlow: I have no regular report, Mr. Chairman, but 
I will give you a short synoposis of what has been done in my 
vicinity this year. I grew about two hundred bushels of apples 
and they did well; I have a patch of blackberries, probably 
three acres, and I supposed they were going to be a success, but 
we havehad four years of very dry weather. The first year the 
vines were very fine. They were so high you could not see the 
horse’s head from one end of the row to the other, but the dry 
weather has affected them materially. Regarding varieties I 
would say that the Snyder is a little earlier than the Briton, but 
buttons down so-as I call it—that I think it is almost useless 
to cultivate it at all. It only lasts about, two weeks, while I 
pick from the Ancient Briton about six weeks, and last fall I 
picked and took to our fair a quart of berries in which thirty- 
two berries rounded up a good full quart. My experience is 
that they are the only berries for me to cultivate. With rasp- 
berries, I think for black caps the Gregg is the best, but it 
needs winter protection. I plant them three feet apart in the 
row, and I plant the rows seven feet apart. Before the dry 
seasons came on they did well. I have plowed up the Phila- 
delphia entirely for they proved a failure during the last three 
years. Idon’t know whether it was the weather or something 
else. I have found the most successful red raspberry to be the 
Clark. It is the hardiest, and the fruit is as large again as the 
Turner, while it does not sucker so bad. In caring for my 
raspberries I put them seven feet apart, that is, the rows are 
seven feet apart, and they are three feet apart inthe row. I 
cultivate them with a large plow drawn by one horse, and in 
the spring I wait until the suckers get up nearly as thick as 
weeds and then I turn a big furrow between the rows and keep. 
going around and around and by setting the plowl can get 
within two inches of my row. When I came to Minnesota 
the only experience I had in fruit culture had been in 
grapes. I came from New Jersey where I was quite successful 
in raising grapes. I came here and tried some of Mr. Hender- 
son’s methods, but I find that I could raise five times as much 
fruit in New Jersey as I can in Minnesota. And I can raise 
five times as much wood in Minnesota as I could in New Jersey. 
I think that my grape culture is a failure as far as money is 
concerned. I find I can grow more grapes on one vine on the 
