88 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Of course good tillage and careful covering in the autumn is 

 necessary. Then comes the marketing, which perhaps in his 

 case is the most important part of all. These berries are picked 

 and are graded. They are put up in specially made boxes. 

 These are square quart boxes. The boxes are wrapped in such 

 paper as you use for wrapping your fancy butter, parafifine paper, 

 and four of these boxes are included in one little crate. Now 

 last year he showed me his receipts from the first shipments of 

 Marshalls which came down to Boston from Oswego county. 

 Those four quart boxes brought him $2 gross, 50 cents a box ; 

 that would easily net him 35 cents a quart. The second grades 

 went in with the ordinary commercial lot. Now I have recited 

 this in order to show that if you are going to grow for quality 

 you must not stop with cultivation but your work must be carried 

 to the extreme end, and that in order to be successful one must 

 attend to the market side as thoroughly and as carefully as the 

 growing side. Now there are only a few growers doing that, 

 but it suggests to me that there is a profitable avenue in that 

 direction. The great body of growers of the strawberry in 

 Oswego county are growing them on the ordinary commercial 

 plan. They are growing ordinary varieties peculiar to that sec- 

 tion and the most popular varieties are Bubach, Glen Mary, 

 Eureka and Atlantic, — those four varieties have the lead there. 

 For high class varieties the one which I have just mentioned, 

 Marshall, and Glen Mary are the two most used. 



I was interested in what the writer of the paper said about that 

 raspberry disease. I wonder if it is at all prevalent in this sec- 

 tion. We have been investigating it in New York state. The 

 Geneva Experiment Station has done most work on it, and it 

 has been proved to be a fungus disease, — that is to say, a plant 

 parasite. No remedy has been discovered which will hold it in 

 check, that is, no spraying remedy ; the only thing that can be 

 done is to treat it as you would an infectious disease, — take up 

 and destroy all plants affected as quickly as the disease is noticed. 



I would like to say a word about one or two varieties of cur- 

 rants. I think as a rule we are fond of throwing currants all 

 into one group and say that currants are currants, one is as good 

 as another. Those of us who have tried and tested the diflferent 

 kinds have changed our minds on that. For home use I don't 

 know of any currant which will approach the Moore's Ruby in 



