FIFTERNTH ANNUAL MHHTING. 173 



]<et for the blackberries, and after you have once secured it 

 if you have the berries you can hold it, but if somebody else 

 secures it first it is pretty hard work to break in with a lot of 

 high bush blackberries later on. Of the high bush blackber- 

 ries the best I have found so far is the Eldorado. I supposed 

 this was very hardy, but the last two seasons, the fruit buds 

 have not proved hardy, and they have not borne as well, but as 

 }ou all know the last two winters have been very severe. It is 

 the most perfect berry in point of size and color, and it holds its 

 color after it is picked and will stand up in the basket several 

 days. The Snyder has the objection that as soon as it is picked 

 it turns red and goes down in about one to two days, and does 

 not sell readily. There are numberless other kinds of high 

 "bush blackberries, but the most of them with me have proved 

 not hardy, or undesirable for other reasons. I use a small 

 cold storage plant in handling my berries of all kinds, and I 

 find it pays for itself many times over. As Mr. Farnham has 

 told you it is not as practical to hold berries as it is apples, but 

 I have found it practicable to hold them for one or two days. 

 Red raspberries when they are ready to pick, I prefer to have 

 them picked and put in the cold storage house, rather than left 

 on the vines, for if they are left on the vines they will get very 

 red and become dark, and if they are mixed with the other ber- 

 ries they will spoil the whole package, but I find no trouble in 

 keeping them as a rule one or two days in the cold storage 

 house. 



A Member : Is the raspberry production equal to-day to 

 what it was fifteen yars ago in Connecticut; is there as much 

 fruit produced as there was then? 



Mr. Allen : I do not think there is. As to the black 

 raspberries I think there are not near as many grown as there 

 used to be, but perhaps as much as the market calls for. But 

 as a rule the blackberries that are brought in from the south, 

 and the dewberries, have largely curtailed the market for the 

 black raspberries. They come just about that season, and al- 

 though you can get a fair price for raspberries for a certain 

 quantity, if you exceed that quantity it is almost impossible to 

 sell them. I do not know any other reason for that condi- 

 tion of the market, only we have so many more of the black- 

 berries brought from the south than formerly. 



