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by kee|)iiiii' (his up, soon have a " pedigree " 

 strain of corn that might not only give him 

 double the crop, but four or five times as 

 many bushels as if he stupidly followed 

 luck and chance. Dr. Miller, in one of his 

 Stray Straws for Oct. I'l, calls attention to 

 this same thing; and it is going on, not only 

 with tield crops, but in our egg contests that 

 are now being exploited, and reported all 

 over the world. 



From every Stale conies the complaint 

 that, Avhile experiment stations are making 

 such wonderful discoveries, and taking such 

 pains to send out bulletins to the farmers, 

 a great lot of tliese same farmers never visit 

 tlieir State testing- farm at all. Over and 

 over again I say to my farming friends, 

 " Suiely you have l)een down to tlie big 

 farm at Wooster? " Almost invariably llie 

 aiswer is that they have talked about it but 

 have not liad the time. Sometimes this is 

 the case when they could get there in two 

 or thiee houi's. The Department of Agri- 

 culture, recognizing this, is noAv, at least in 

 some States, sending competent men around 

 among the farmers to teach them high-pres- 

 sui'e farming. You need not come l)a(k to 

 uie and say the farmers sometimes know 

 more about farming in their own locality 

 than the government experts. Look at that 

 pictui'e 1 have referred to in Corn, and then 

 ■own up that you have been stupidly farm- 

 ing with your eyes shut — yes, with your 

 eyes really shut to what is going on in dc- 

 \eloi)ing new and better strains of seed 

 corn. 



THE LOGAN BERRY, OR BLACKl'.KKMiV RASP- 

 BERRY. 



Some years ago 1 was greatly pleased 

 with the Logan berries of (California. In 

 fact, they were so plentiful (and 1 presume 

 they are yet) that they were on all the 

 fruit-stands in the streets of Los Angeles. 

 They tasted much like a great big luscious 

 raspberry more than any thing else I can 

 think of, and very much resembled the 

 Northey blackberry that I made such a fuss 

 about down in Florida. By the way, it is 

 no more than fair that I should tell the 

 readers of Gleanings that there has not 

 been a good yield of this wonderful berry 

 since I gave it such a write-up. Anthrach- 

 nose, or something similar, attacked it on 

 my ground, and on the grounds of my 

 neighbor. Neighbor Raub, who, however, 

 had two or three small clumps of berries in 

 his garden to which he gave extra care, 

 fertilizers, and watering, got some beautiful 

 nice berries. Spraying might remedy the 

 trouble; but I have not been able to learn 

 wlietlier anybody has tried it. Well, now. 

 k't us go back to the Logan lieiry of Cali- 



GLEAMAGS IK BEK CLLTLUE 



lornia. Several have been inquiring of late 

 in regard to it. Green's Fruit Grouper says 

 it lias not been a success in the East, nor 

 in cold climates, so far as they can discover. 

 But tliere is no reason in the world why it 

 should not be a success in Florida, unless, 

 indeed, this same anthrachnose should at- 

 tack it. I am going to submit the matter to 

 friend Keasoner. of the Tropical Nursery. 

 By the way, the berries are so plentiful that 

 Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog the canned 

 berries. A good-sized can is only 20 cts., 

 and they are certainly a most delicious 

 fruit, larger, if any thing, than average 

 blackberries. 



DASHEEXS; THE FINEST IN FLORIDA EXCEPT 

 THOSK AT THE ItliOOKSVILLE GOVERN- 

 MENT STATION. 



Mr. Root : — I send you a picture of my dasheen, 

 taken Sept. 13. The plants average between six and 

 seven feet higli, and cover the ground completely. 

 The tops liave not grown perceptibly for several 

 weeks past: but the tubers are forming rapidly, and 

 promise a heavy yield. 



The soil on which they grow is a well-fertilized 

 humus-filled sand. I ridged the soil with furrows 

 about six feet apart, planting two rows of dasheen 

 to each ridge. The soil is so moist that there has 

 liceii more or less water in the bottom of the furrows 

 all suni:iier. 



N.'iu-lilior \ lilt's dasheen, with a 

 Anil and the banana -plants in tht 

 .iliove his lic.-id. 



glimpse of friend 

 background, just 



