STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 87 



The results I will give you iu round numbers in a general way, 

 without going into the details. I have never succeeded in getting 

 what I consider a full crop, in consequence of my experimenting 

 with different varieties, the depredations of the white grub, and the 

 winter killing, caused by the ice. But my crop has never been less 

 than forty-five nor more than seventy-five bushels each season, and 

 the gross receipts have run all the way from one hundred and nine- 

 ty-two dollars up to three hundred and four. The whole expense, 

 including fertilizer, cultivation and picking will not exceed one 

 hundred dollars per year, leaving a net profit of from ninety-two 

 dollars up to two hundred and four each season, after getting good 

 pay for all my labor, cost of fertilizer, picking, etc. 



I also cultivate the other varieties of small fruits, blackberries, 

 raspberries, currants, gooseberries, etc., and beside these, the 

 annual varieties that the tree peddler comes around with every sea- 

 son, that look so beautiful on paper. There is lots of enjoyment 

 in this world in the anticipation of things that we never realize, and 

 I know of no better way to get a share of it than to invest a small 

 sum annually in this direction. But I am not going to weary your 

 patience with the details of their cultivation and treatment, as my 

 method does not differ essentially from those of our best authori- 

 ties, which you can all get and stud}^ at your leisure. Their culti- 

 vation is more simple, and so far, with me, they have been almost 

 entirely free from insects and other enemies, and the results have 

 been more satisfactory than any other fruit I have ever raised. 

 The worst enemies that I have to contend with are the birds. The 

 robins and cherry birds just swarm on my bushes. I wish this 

 society would petition the legislature to so amend the law for the 

 protection of birds that it would give the fruit grower the 

 right to protect his own garden and fruit trees, instead of our 

 being taxed to pay a bounty for shooting crows, a bird that does 

 more good than harm. 



I raised and marketed, the past season, from seventeen rows of 

 the Snyder blackberries, ten rods long, forty-four bushels, which 

 netted two hundred and three dollars ; and from ten rows of the 

 Cuthbert raspberries, twenty-four bushels, which netted one hun- 

 dred and seventeen dollars. You will observe from this that there 

 was not much dift'erence, either in the yield or the receipts. But as 

 our markets usually run, I think there is the most money in the 

 Cuthbert raspberry. 



