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not buy any berries from me, and he said there was a neigh- 

 bor of mine where he could buy the berries for this other 

 I'riee and that his berries were just as good as mine, so I 

 said, "You'd better buy them." He had been buying every 

 (lay all through the season, and we felt rather badly about 

 it, and I said, "You go down to the other man and buy 50 

 crates of these berries for 7e."- — he wanted 60— »-"and I will 

 f^ell you 10 crates at 9c. and you ship them to your man" — 

 they were going to Worcester — "and you write him and tell 

 him what you have paid for the berries and see if you get a 

 letter back telling you you have paid too much for mine, or 

 ihat there was 2c. ditference in the berries." He agreed to 

 that, thought it was fair, and we shipped them. Then I got 

 in my machine and ran down to the other man's place and 

 looked at his berries, and I must confess they were just as 

 good as mine and a little better, and I felt .very foolish about 

 it, but the man Avrote back that my berries were worth the 

 ?c. more, although when they left there my neighbor's ber- 

 ries looked better than mine, and the reason I believe that 

 was so, is that mine had the room around them so they could 

 n^ature and had the proper conditions. 



THE CHAIRMAN: ISlr, Palmer has brought to our at- 

 tention the fact that he believes fruit is more hardy if it has 

 plenty of air and sunlight and cultivation. 



MR. :\IILLER OF A:\IHERST: I do not raise raspber- 

 ries, I buy them. Last year I bought some splendid large 

 St. Regis, and they kept very well for a day and then 

 softened, more or less, and I found that a large berry has 

 less flavor and less substance than the smaller berry. Is it 

 because the berries were raised on bushes that had a very 

 heavy foliage and the sunlight did not get to them? 



MR. AIKEX: I know of some fruit last year Avhen it 

 was raining all the time that wasn't hardly fit to eat, but 

 when it stopped raining it got back to the usual flavor. 



THE CHAIR:MAN: Did you receive the berries at the 

 same time? 



:\rR. :\IILLER: Yes sir. The plants with the heavier 



