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bushes. To procure the best fruit raise it rather than depend 

 on the market. He advised everybody to grow all the small fruit 

 the family can consume. A little labor in growing strawberries, 

 raspberries and blackberries will produce a bushel of these fruits 

 as easily as a bushel of potatoes. 



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The currant is one of the best of fruits and one easily grown 

 and it was a surprise to him wdiy more farmers did not grow 

 this healthy fruit. The great drawback was the currant worm, 

 but this was kept in check easily by the use of hellebore. 



Fay's, White Grape, Wilder, the Victoria, were named as val- 

 uable sorts. Mr. Pope had tried the Red Cross and given it up. 

 The Prince Albert was a strong-growing sort and apparently a 

 good variety. 



For market, he planted the Wilder ; for home use, he preferred 

 the White Grape. Advised planting two or three varieties for 

 family use, a few White Grape; for jelly, Prince Albert, then 

 the Wilder. 



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For plums we should have several varieties. The McLaugh- 

 lin, Reine Claude, Green Gage were three good varieties. The 

 Lombard is a good bearer. The Burbank was a good canning 

 plum but lacked in quality. The Abundance had not succeeded 

 well with him. The Satsuma was a good plum for canning and 

 of fair quality. 



To head off the curculio advise planting in the hen yard, if 

 that could not be done depend upon jarring the trees and catch- 

 ing the bugs on sheets. 



Spray with the Bordeaux mixture to prevent fruit rotting, 

 beginning as soon as the buds begin to swell, again after the 

 leaves are out and after the fruit has set. Destroy all the mum- 

 mied fruit in the fall or whenever it is seen. Spraying should 

 be continued up nearly to time the fruit begins to turn. Thought 

 spraying was helpful to prevent black knot. 



Advocated thinning th^ plums when bearing excessively, pick- 

 ing off half the fruit. It is better for the quality of the fruit, 

 and vastly better for the tree. He emphasized the statement 

 that thinning was absolutely necessary to best results in grow- 

 ing plums. Spoke well of the Bradshaw, but condemned 

 Moore's Arctic. 



