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Mr. Gould. I presume he is a better salesman than I am. 



Col. Stevens. Can you raise strawberries at eight cents with any 

 reasonable profit ? 



Mr. Gould. Oh, yes; that is better business than growing wheat, a 

 good deal. They can be grown profitably at from five to six cents per 

 quart; two cents on a quart is a pretty good profit. T am speaking, 

 of course, of the wholesale price. 



Plums were plentiful in this part of the State, so much so that every- 

 body could have a share even if they had but little money to buy, and 

 a good many could have them without money. 



Currants and gooseberries were, perhaps, not a big crop, but there 

 Avas a fair ^rop of currants. Gooseberries are not raised here very ex- 

 tensively, but the Houghton, as far as I noticed, were a fair crop. 



REPORT FROM FIFTH DISTRICT. 

 By Vice President G. W. Fuller, Litchfield. 



Mr. President : 



I have no written report, and I will be very brief. I am sixty-eight 

 miles west of this city, on the St. Paul & Manitoba road, five miles 

 beyond the Big Woods, on the prairie. We had a year ago quite a fine 

 crop of Wealthy and Duchess apples. This last year the only apples 

 we had, to amount to anything, were the Transcendents. The 

 Wealthy trees, not only my own orchard, but as far as I know all 

 through that section of country, with very few exceptions, were killed. 

 I have a few very poor trees still surviving. The Transcendents, how- 

 ever, done the best the past year they have done for years, and have 

 produced a fine crop. Hyslops were a failure. I had a pretty good 

 crop of Early Strawberry. The trees are in fair condition. 



Our currant crop was very fair; mine was as good, probably, as I 

 ever had. I have the white and red varieties. I do not think there is 

 any better variety for our section than the Victor. 



Of raspberries, of course the Turner is the best with us. I have the 

 Philadelphia, but shall allow them to run out. The Cuthberts I set a 

 year ago last spring, but the bushes were killed down last spring. I 

 don't regard them worth raising, — that is, unless we can succeed by 

 covering. 



Blackberries, as I have already stated, are of no value with us unless 

 covered. We raise the Doolittle blackcaps there, getting a very good 

 •crop of berries from the new shoots that come up in the spring. I 



