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Dr. M. M. Frisselle: How wide apart were the rows? 



Mr. Elliot: The rows were planted orginally about six or 

 eight feet apart, and he let them occupy that strip of ground. 



Mr. Cutts: When did he cultivate? 



Mr. Elliot: He does not cultivate at all. He uses mulching 

 entirely. 



President Underwood: Will Mr. Yancey please tell us how 

 many berries his plantation yields? 



Mr. Yancey: 1 have only four acres of berries that are full 

 grown yet. I think I can raise about 4,000 quarts to the acre 

 of blackberries. My ordinary yield in raspberries has been 

 about 2,000 quarts, and I think with blackberries I can double 

 the amount. 



REPORT ON SMALL FRUITS. 



M. CUTLER, SUMTER. 



Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen: 



I have little that is new to report in regard to small fruits. Our market 

 growers have become rather conservative in regard to planting new kinds, 

 having found it more profitable to confine their efforts to a few "old re- 

 liables." 



Strawberries did fairly well the past season. My crop, amounting to 

 twenty-five hundred quarts of fine berries, brought from $2.50 to $3.50 per 

 24 quart case. The first picking was made June 25th from an old bed not 

 mulched, and the last July 24th from a new bed on which the mulching 

 was removed from the rows about May 1st. My experience has shown me 

 that old beds furnish the earliest berries, so I mow them over after the 

 fruit is picked and let them stand as long as profitable. Warfield No. 2 

 bore its first crop the past season and proved to be a good bearer and fine 

 shipper. Michel's Early bore a few inferior berries, and was no earlier 

 than Crescent, which has proved to be the earliest, the latest and most 

 productive kind 1 have tried yet. 



Turner and Cuthbert red raspberries bore a fair crop but not as good as 

 last year. The weather was too wet for handling them, so the returns were 

 small. Blackcaps produced a fair crop and were in good demand. 



Red Dutch and Cherry currants were plenty, selling in the local markets 

 as low as five cents per quart. 



Snyder, Taylor, Stone's Hardy and Ancient Briton blackberries pro- 

 duced a good crop of fruit. I had forty-one 24-quart cases, which sold at 

 $3 to $3.50 per case. 



Owing to the frost holding off late, grapes were a good crop. Worden, 

 Moore's Early and Concord seem to be the best for this section of the state. 



The Houghton gooseberry does well here, if properly cared for. 



Our farmers are generally setting out patches of small fruits and tak- 

 ing better care of them than heretofore. Capt. A. L. Brown of Brownton 

 is quite an extensive grower of small fruits for market, having several 



