IIG BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Mr. Wheeler. You can't give them awav sometimes. 



Professor Raxe. I have had that experience. Xow, in 

 Xew Hampshire they always sold right along with the Cuth- 

 bert. In Boston you don't see very many of those berries, 

 and they always sell at a very fair price on the market. It 

 seems to me there is an opportunity to make a profit in the 

 Black Cap, better than in the blackberry, and even better 

 than in the red raspberry, because you can surely get a crop ; 

 the prices certainly seem to me to warrant our growing them 

 more than we do. 



Mr. Wheeler. I think if you could get 10 cents a quart 

 it wouldn't pay to grow anything else. 



A Voice. I have got 12 and 15 cents. 



Mr. Wheeler. For how many ? 



A Voice. All I could raise. 



Mr. Wheeler. I mean, how many quarts ? 



A Voice. I sold 30 or 40 quarts a day. 



Mr. Wheeler. I think the Black Cap raspberry is the 

 easiest one to raise, and they make plants very freely and are 

 easy to handle. 



Question. Isn't the same thing true of the gooseberry ? 



Mr. Wheeler. It certainly is. If you can get anything 

 better than 5 cents a pound for gooseberries, as they do in 

 J^ew York, I think it is a very profitable berry to raise. 



Mr. G. F. Morse, Can you tell anything about the black 

 currant ? Is there any market ? 



Mr. Wheeler. There is a small market for them. Every 

 year an English friend of mine buys 100 bushels and sets 

 them out, and he says he has been able to sell all his product 

 to his English friends. So the demand among English people 

 exists, but our people don't want them. The Scotch people 

 are very fond of them, for currant jam. 



Question. Are you able to tell us the variety of soil on 

 which Mr. Warren raises his strawberries ? 



Mr. Wheeler. A heavy black soil. 



Question, Is that favorable ? 



Mr, Wheeler, If it is well drained. As I said in my 

 talk, the lighter soil of Cape Cod is much earlier than our 

 heavy, black soil. 



