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If too many canes are allowed to grow in a hill, they will be so slender as to fall 

 down, making them difficult to cultivate and protect. The season of this fruit may 

 be greatly prolonged by setting early and late varieties. There are no varieties 

 adapted to a wet soil. A clay loam will produce the most fruit, but they will ripen 

 earlier where the soil is sandy. 



Besides the foregoing fruits, others might be named, which would well repay the 

 farmer for all necessary cost and labor, but those named including currants involve 

 the least outlay in money for plants and will yield a bounteous return for the labor 

 bestowed. 



FRUIT AT NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION. 



Mr. Woolsey. Mr. President, I would like to inquire, if it is in 

 order, if it would not be right to ask some explanation from Mr. Gould 

 in regard to our fruit exhibited at the New Orleans Exposition last 

 winter, as to whether we had received an adequate return for the large 

 amount of money expended in making that exhibit. 



President Smith. It is not on the program but I think everyone 

 would be glad to have a short report on that subject. 



Mr. Gould. Mr. President and Gentlemen : 



I would like to add somewhat to the report that I have already 

 made which is published in the proceedings for 1885. At the time 

 I prepared my report I was not well and I made it as short as I could 

 and omitted some things of some interest to the people of the State. I 

 know that many are in the dark in regard to some things which were 

 left out of the report. 



Mr. Gould here read extracts from the published report referred to. 

 ' Continuing, Mr. Gould said : The arrangement was that fruit had 

 to be in place on the night of the 14th day of January, as the tables 

 would only hold a certain amount; they were calculated for twenty 

 thousand plates. Mr. Parker Earle, of Cobden, 111., was superintend- 

 ent of the horticultural department. I had seen him frequently pre- 

 vious to this time and consulted with him in regard to space in Horti- 

 cultural Hall, and he informed me that I could have all the space on 

 his tables that I would agree to fill. But I will say here that Mr. 

 Gibbs, the Commissioner from Minnesota, was in favor of making the 

 principal display of fruits in the Government Building, which was 

 three-quarters of a mile from Horticultural Hall, and hence there was 

 no chance for an exhibition for competitive prizes in the Government 

 Building. All fruit that was to compete for prizes had to be exhibited 

 in Horticultural Hall. I was in favor of making our principal exhibit 



