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an acre in a day. Blackberries are grown without much difficulty in 

 Wisconsin; I never thought it was really necessary to cover them. I 

 have been growing them some years, and one or two winters I have 

 lost the crop by the vines winter-killing. I lost a crop last winter. 

 The winter before they came through all right, without any protection 

 whatever. There is no more work attending the covering of an acre 

 of blackberries than there is an acre of strawberries, and a crop of 

 blackberries is much more profitable. 



A Member. How much fruit do you get on an acre? 



Mr. Tuttle. I have grown ten thousand quarts on an acre. I have 

 one acre of blackberries that I am very careful of. I am going to 

 report what they produce in the future, and I believe that I shall report 

 ten thousand quarts. 



A Member. What is the kind? 



Mr. Tuttle. The Ancient Briton. It is a larger berry than Stone's 

 Hardy, more nearly the size of the Lawton, and is a great deal better 

 in quality. Last year Mr. Hamilton's were a failure. He told me he 

 had Stone's Hardy principally which he got on account of its extreme 

 hardiness. In my experience it is not as h^rdy as the Ancient Briton, 

 and he told me this fall at my place that he never would send out 

 under his name any more fruit of the Stones Hardy; that he had 

 a reputation for what was called the "Ripon berries," and he didn't 

 care to send out anything' but the Ancient Briton; he said he had 

 ordered the men to dig up all the Stone's Hardy and put them on the 

 brush-pile. 



Col, Stevens. I would like to ask Mr. Tuttle what he gets a quart. 



Mr. Tuttle. The lowest Mr. Hamilton ever gets is ten cents; some- 

 times he gets eighteen cents a quart. 



Col. Stevens. If you get ten cents a quart, and grow 10,000 quarts 

 to an acre, that amounts to $1,000 per acre. 



Mr. Tuttle. That is what I am trying to do; I believe it can be 

 done. 



Mr. Barrett. You gentlemen talk as though blackberries were a 

 success. They are a perfect failure with us, in every attempt that we 

 have made in our locality. I procured some vines from Wisconsin, 

 of the Ancient Briton, took proper care to cover them in the fall; the 

 next spring they were very feeble, and during the succeeding summer 

 they died. If any gentleman of experience can tell us how we can raise 

 blackberries, he will tell us something of importance. 



Mr. Fuller. I have never succeeded in growing blackberries on the 



