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keep all my raspberry bushes down low by pinchiug them off when 

 they get up two or two and a half feet; I pinch them back and keep 

 them low in that shape. 



Strawberries were very good the past year. I raised the Crescent 

 and Charles Downing. The Glendale I do not regard as worth raising. 

 I have had them, and they do very well to fill up a quart box, but are 

 good for nothing else with me. The Sharpless failed by reason of frost 

 in the early spring. The year previous, however, I had a very fine 

 crop. 



As to grapes, I would report that I have the Janesville; have not 

 given it a long enough trial to say what it is really going to do; I doubt 

 about its being successful. I have several other varieties. The crop, 

 was very good, and I sold none of mine for less than fifteen cents a 

 quart; that is the wholesale price. The retail price during the whole 

 season nearly was twenty cents. Of course, we don't send them down 

 to Minneapolis; we sell them at our own place and send them west. 



The Cherry currant I have never raised successfully. I have had 

 them for ten years, and every year it would die down. I regard it as 

 entirely worthless in our locality. 



Mr. Kellogg, We have about ten papers that want about ten hours'^ 

 discussion. We left ofi" this morning and promised to take up, first, 

 the unfinished question about grafts, about their treatment and growth, 

 how farmers could use them, and the profit that could be made from 

 root grafting, etc. We have had presented the subjects of hot and 

 cold locations for trees and plants, seedlings, new plants, propagation 

 of small fruits, fungi^ wild fruits, Russian fruits, and grapes in ail 

 their varieties; raspberries, blackberries and strawberries, in all their 

 varieties; two varieties of dew-plants; winter-protection, cross-breed- 

 ing, tree culture as adapted to northwestern prairies, and lastly, that 

 never-ending question of blight. [Laughter.] I don't see any hope of 

 touching them all. 



The report of the committee on Russian apples being called for, Mr, 

 Cutler in presenting the report stated that owing to the limited time 

 the committee had had to inquire as to the merits of the different kinds 

 of Russiaji apples, and their non-acquaintance with the quality of many 

 of them, they had deemed it best to select only such as have been grown 

 in Minnesota, those that are of good enough quality to pay for grow- 

 ing; that the committee had to take the evidence of their own number 

 to some extent, that had propagated these different kinds of apples. 



