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goes along and puts a spade down on one side and throws a little 

 dirt on the plant. I concluded to give my plants a little protec- 

 tion in the way of throwing some damp hay over the top of the 

 plants. I put a trellis along by the plants and dropped a little 

 wet hay on top. Two years ago this winter we had the coldest 

 winter we have had, with one exception, for twenty five years, 

 and they were hurt some; but they didn't kill as badly as the 

 Snyders; the Snyders kill to the ground, but I conclude that I 

 can grow 10,000 quarts to the acre of that blackberry, and it is a 

 better blackberry than the Snyder or the Lawton. Ordinarily I 

 can grow them without any protection. I concluded to let them 

 take their chances. Only once since I have commenced growing 

 have I lost crops by winter killing. My soil is a rich prairie, 

 black loam, heavy clay down two or three feet deep. There are 

 places on my place where I grow these berries, that the black 

 soil is three or four feet deep; they don't do as well on that kind 

 of soil as on heavier land. I don't make any difference in loca- 

 tion of ground, whether to the north or to the south. My land 

 is rolling land. You need not trouble yourself about slopes, but 

 I prefer, or would rather have, a northern slope than a southern 

 slope to keep them protected from the sun. I think they suffer 

 as much from the heat of the sun as from the cold of winter. 

 I examined my blackberry plants a week ago, and they appeared 

 to be perfectly sound. They had thawed out and the wood didn't 

 show any injury whatever. 



Gen. Le Due. Do you grow blueberries or huckleberries! 



Mr. Tuttle. We grow them wild, but not where I live; the 

 soil is not quite poor enough. 



Gen. Le Due. Have you ever transplanted them? 



Mr. Tuttle. No, sir. We grow plenty of cranberries, and 

 there are blueberries in abundance. 



Mr. Harris. I will make a further statement on blackberries 

 before the close of the meeting. It is now time to adjourn. I 

 wish before we adjourn to call our brother horticulturists' atten- 

 tion to a new agricultural and horticultural paper which has 

 been started in Minnesota, called Farm, Stock and Some, 

 published in Minneapolis, semi-monthly, at the moderate price 

 of fifty cents per year. If we would make this our own paper, 

 and let our State pride reach forth and write for it, and get sub- 

 scribers for it, and give it a circulation of 50,000 or 75,000, we 

 would be doing a good thing and get a paper that could not be 

 surpassed in the Union. We have talent enough in the State. 



