3i8 srccESs with small fruits. 



all taken from artesian wells. The first year, the plants do not 

 require so much moisture ; but the second year, we water about 

 once a week. We keep all runners cut off. 



J. H. Ogier. 



Brown's Valley, Yuba Co., Cal. 

 My business is raising strawberries and blackberries for 

 market, which is eleven miles distant, and I send all my fruit 

 by stage. I have experimented with all leading varieties, since 

 Oranp;e Judd introduced the Agriculturist, but succeed best with 

 Triomphe de Gand, Longworth's Prolific, Jucunda, and Colonel 

 Cheney. The latter is rather soft to carry so far to market. I 

 commence sending to market about the middle of April. About 

 the middle of June the Triomphe begins to ripen a second crop. 

 Last year they were the largest and finest berries I ever saw. 

 In September the Jucunda bears a third crop. From May until 

 October we depend entirely on irrigation. Our soil is red, stiff, 

 and heavy. I use abundantly well-rotted stable manure and 

 barn-yard compost. I prepare by deep plowing, and then har- 

 rowing. I then go over the ground for the plants with Hexa- 

 mer's pronged hoe, making the soil very fine. I set the plants 

 two feet apart each way, and where each one is to grow, I work 

 in a large shovelful of manure deeply and thoroughly. I give 

 blackberries the same mode of culture, setting them three feet 

 by eight. No winter protection is needed. In ordinary sea- 

 sons, there are a few strawberries all winter long. Strawberries 

 and blackberries are very productive, and enormous in size, but 

 currants, gooseberries, and red raspberries do not succeed in 

 this region, the long and intensely hot and dry season being 

 unfavorable. 



John Palmer. 



New Castle, Cal. 

 The President Wilder is the finest flavored berry we have 

 ever tasted, and it is the most attractive in color of all. The 

 Jucunda does not do well on our light soil. The Monarch is 

 splendid. W^e grow raspberries quite extensively, our climate 

 and location being betler adapted to them, perhaps, than any 



