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not exactly blight; but the foliage looked as 

 though it was burned by the sun. The hired 

 man explained that this was where Mr. White 

 put on heavy doses of nitrate of soda. I in- 

 quired if he tried I'ght doses as well as heavy 

 ones, and was told he did; but, as with my own 

 experiments, the nitrate had done no good any- 

 where in any sort of dose, and in heavy doses it 

 had done harm without question. 



In due time Mr. White returned, and we had 

 a big time comparing notes, etc. He has a 

 great deal more ground in raspberries than in 

 strawberries. In fact, I believe there are now 

 five or six acres. Some of the earliest were just 

 beginning to get ripe. The crop promises to be 

 immense. We looked over carefully a single 

 row of Gaults, and compared them with the 

 others. There is not as much fruit set for the 

 first crop as on several other kinds; but he 

 thinks it may have been somewhat owing to 

 the fact that they were crowded for young 

 plants. 



After dinner he very kindly took his horse 

 and buggy, and we made a flying trip to friend 

 Gault's home. Here we saw Gault raspberries 

 loaded with fruit, by the acre. As Mr. G. was 

 not at home we looked over the grounds as 

 well as we could by ourselves. As I was nearly 

 forty miles from home, we could not take very 

 much time. The Gault raspberry certainly 

 promises a big crop, even from the first fruit- 

 ing, to say nothing of the crop from the new 

 wood, that is to continue till frost. It looks 

 now, however, as if there were going to be one 

 defect in the Gaults. A good many of the ber- 

 ries are imperfect— some of them gnarly. But 

 of course there were here and there extra-large 

 berries — a sort of double berry or monstrosity. 

 These, of course, are all right; but it breaks up 

 the uniformity that we see in size and shape in 

 some of our very best berries. The Gaults on 

 our own home plantation are this year going to 

 give a large crop; but there is more or less of 

 the same trouble mentioned above. When we 

 get them into market, however, we can tell bet- 

 ter about it. 



On the way home we took a look through the 

 poultry establishment of Charles McClave, of 

 New London. This man has deservedly won a 

 wide reputation for fine exhibition fowls. We 

 .saw every thing in the way of poultry, ducks, 

 and geese, and even some beautiful imported 

 swans, costing, I am told, away up into the 

 hundreds. - 



Even though I began to urge that it was get- 

 ting toward 4 o'clock, and that I wanted to 

 make Medina before dark, friend W. said I 

 must take just ten minutes to see another ever- 

 bearing raspberry growing in a garden in New 

 London. The owner was away, but we obtain- 

 ed permission to look at the berries. This berry 

 has a yellow or orange color when ripe, and 

 most deliciously flavored we found it. It bears 

 fruit both on the old and new canes, and prop- 

 agates by the tips, and also sends up plants as 

 do the red raspberries. The amount of fruit 

 already set, and the blossoms for more, promise 

 a tremendous yield. My impression is, however, 

 they will not be as large as the Cuthbert and 

 some of our red raspberries. The owner ob- 

 tained his plants from away up somewhere in 

 the northern part of Michigan. A relative of 

 his who was visiting him was asked to look at 

 his Gault raspberries. The relative then re- 

 plied that he himself was growing everbearing 

 raspberries by the acre, and promised to send 

 some plants. It looks to me very much like 

 some sort of raspberries that I saw in the woods 

 in the northern part of Michigan some years 

 ago. I found the fruit quite late in the fall, 

 and was assured it kept bearing until frost. 



After I came home I wrote a card asking the 

 address of the owner of this everbearing yellow 

 raspberry. Here is the reply. CD 



O. E. Hemenway is the man who has the raspber- 

 ries you asb about. The Gaudies are giving lii qts. 

 each morning, with prospects of keeping it up the 

 week out. Dan White. 



New London, O., June 16. 



A VISIT TO THE OHIO AGEICULTURA.L EXPERI- 

 MENT STATION. 



After writing what I have about the Great 

 American strawberry I felt anxious to visit our 

 station and ask friend Green what he knew 

 about it. The result was, that, on the after- 

 noon of Thursday, June IS, I started ott' on my 

 wheel. As there was a brisk north wind blow- 

 ing against my back, I reached Wooster easily 

 before dark. Finding Prof. Green absent I was 

 most graciously received and shown over the 

 grounds by our good friend Prof. Thorn. At 

 this time of the year their greenhouses are 

 almost entirely occupied in growing tomatoes. 

 The plants were in the sub-irrigated benches 

 with not more than 4 inches of dirt to grow in; 

 and it seemed to me they stood almost as close 

 as we plant potatoes under glass — that is, a foot 

 from center to center. Perhaps the tomato- 

 plants, however, were a foot and a half apart. 

 Each plant was trained so it would make one 

 single vine, and this ran clear up to the glass, 

 sometimes four or five feet. All side shoots 

 were clipped ofl': but the beautiful large toma- 

 toes, some of them ripe and ready to gather, 

 were strung along these single-vine plants in a 

 way that would almost call forth exclamations 

 of wonder and surprise from any gardener or 

 anybody else who loves to see beautiful toma- 

 toes growing. It seemed to me almost like en- 

 chantment to see such a wonderful amount of 

 fruit in such a shallow bed of soil: and the 

 whole range of greenhouses contained a perfect 

 stand, and was a perfect success from beginning 

 to end. 



Perhaps I should explain that I got my 

 glimpse of this wonderful sight in the way of 

 gardening under glass about 5 o'clock in the 

 morning. I chanced to be on hand just as the 

 janitor was opening up and sweeping out. 

 After breakfast. Prof. Thorn took me. together 

 with Mrs. Thorn, in his buggy, and we had a 

 most delightful drive. First we went through 

 the great barn just constructed for the con- 

 venience of that wonderful experiment farm of 

 toward a thousand acres. The barn not only 

 contains ample storage room for all the crops 

 they will be likely to raise, but it contains all 

 the latest improved machinery for moving the 

 product quickly to any part of the barn where 

 the crop is to be stored. Besides this, right 

 inside of the same barn is a thrashing-machine, 

 en«ilage-cutter, and, in short, all the improved 

 agricultural machinery needed to take care of 

 the crops in the best manner. A little steam- 

 engine in the dairy-room, only just separated 

 from the barn, furnishes power, which is trans- 

 mitted by an endless rope belt. 



I can hardly take space here to tell you about 

 thy various forage crops and experiments with 

 the fertilizers. One fact, however, was brought 

 out very sharply and clearly; viz.: A great 

 many valuable fertilizers like nitrate of soda, 

 potash, and other chemicals, may not produce 

 any effect whatever when used alone: but when 

 supplemented by other needful fertilizers the 

 result is very decided and clear. Dan White 

 and myself saw no effect from the use of nitrate 

 of soda when used by itself, and the same 

 result we see here. When combined, however, 

 with phosphoric acid and potash, it produces 

 positive results on corn, wheat, potatoes, etc., 

 without question; but whether the benefit is 



