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southeastern side of my house, where it is protected, than | 
can on ten vines out on the trellis. I have a little five year old 
Delaware on the southeast side of my house and on it I grew 
150 pounds of grapes in one summer. Now, I thinkif I get ten 
pounds on one of my vines on the trellis I am doing pretty 
well. 
I paid a pretty good price for Russian mulberries. I got 
them from the Mennonites. They were recommended to me 
as a nice shade tree, and I tried them as such. I believe the 
Lord intended them to grow silk worms on. They grow very 
fast on our soil. I have taken off sprouts nine and a half feet 
long that grew in one summer. In the winter they freeze 
back almost as much as they gain in the summer. [ 
tried for years to get them to grow up and got dis- 
gusted, and two years ago I took a saw and sawed them off 
at the top of the fence that I had built along there—it was a 
wire fence—and on the sides, leaving them only a foot wide 
and just about three feet high. When they began to throw 
out those sprouts I would go along before breakfast with a 
grass hook and trim them up, and now I have as fine a hedge 
as you could see. This year I marketed a hundred bushels of 
very fine plums at two dollars a bushel. The varieties were 
the Desota and the Ocheeda. The Ocheeda came from the 
banks of the Ocheeda. IT saw them a few years ago and was 
struck by their beauty and size and pleasant taste. I saw them 
in the garden of a gentleman and was so struck by them that I 
engaged all he had. I have been cultivating them since, and 
they are really the finest plums that I have had by far. This 
is the one that Mr. Harris spoke of as taking the first premium 
at the state fair. It is a native plum which originated on the 
banks of Lake Ocheeda, and I named it the Ocheeda, myself. 
One peculiarity of it is that there is not a small plum on the 
trees, and every one of them is loaded, too. They come a 
little later than other varieties, and do not sucker as 
much. 
A Member: Have you ever sprayed your plum trees? 
Mr. Ludlow: No, I never have, and I have never seen a 
curculio on my plum trees. 
