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time is about the ninth. This year we picked them on the 

 sixth. That is very satisfactory. We have also raised a good 

 many Cuthberts. 



If you wish to test yourself and see whether you can 

 make a success of raspberry growing, I would like to give 

 you this suggestion. Procure some plants, and set them out 

 in the garden, or put them near enough to the house so that 

 the good people may be able to get some results out of them ; 

 or, if you have any children in the family and you wish to 

 interest them, pass them over to the children and tell them 

 that you will give them the same help in the cultivation and 

 in the matter of marketing — tell them it is all in their hands, 

 not only the matter of planting, but picking and everything 

 of that sort is in their own hands. If they can make a suc- 

 cess of it you ought to. 



President Rogers : What do you consider the best 

 kind to grow ? 



Mr. Smith : '^he Cuthbert is a very good and reliable 

 variety. We are doJng pretty well with the Early King. 



President RcieERS : It is getting late, but w^e still have 

 another number on the program. We have with us again 

 this afternoon ^Ir. Castner, who has come to Connecticut 

 from the Flood River apple growing region of Oregon, and 

 as the closing feature of our meeting he is going to give us 

 a demonstration of apple packing. You can watch him^ as 

 he goes along, and ask him questions on any point that you 

 care to. 



Demonstration Lecture. 



Modern Methods of Packing Apples. 



By John B. Castner, Hood River, Oregon. 



]\Ir. Chairman, I do not knov- as I shall show you any- 

 thing different from what ^ ou have all seen before, for I have 

 been doing this for the last two days dowmstairs, and I guess 

 most of you have seen all there is to show. But there may 

 be some questions that I can answer. 



