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The plan is dangerous, because in binding up one leg the animal 

 strains immensely with his other limbs, and the hock joint is likely 

 to be injured as I witnessed myself in one case. 



Preservation or Eggs. 



Prof, B. M. Nyce exhibited some eggs that had been preserved in 

 his fruit preserving house in this city for seventeen months. They 

 were tasted by the members and pronounced excellent. 



The Kittatinny Blackberry. 



Mr. Williams, of Montclair, the original propagator, showed fine 

 specimens, stating that while the Lawton winter-killed, this was 

 unharmed. 



Dr. Trimble. — A friend of mine accidentally covered a Lawton last 

 fall, and among many it was the only one that bore. 



A. S. Fuller. — Acres of the Kittatinny were killed last winter on 

 the Jersey sands. They talk about protection, but a neighbor of mine 

 has a patch of Lawton's on a bleak hill and they bore abundantly. 

 Now where is your protection ? 



Mr. Carpenter. — The past winter has been harder on small fruits 

 and on fruit trees than for twenty years. On my place every kind 

 of. blackberry that was not protected was killed. A great mistake is 

 made by too excessive cultivation. I raised a crop of raspberries by 

 working them after the fruit was set. I doubt the propriety of dis- 

 turbing the roots at all. This business is not well understood. 



Mr. Williams. — I have no sympathy with anybody who talks of 

 raising anything without culture. I cultivate well and use plenty of 

 manure. Any other teaching is pernicious. 



Mr, N, C. Meeker, — It seems to me that much of this is loose talk. 

 There is no doubt but what the cultivation of all the small fruits in 

 the spring is fatal, for the reason that there* is a growth of the plant, 

 or of the wood, which inevitably pushes off the fruit. But after the 

 fruit is gathered, cultivate at once, and thoroughly, until the middle 

 of September, or thereabouts, and then stop, that the wood may 

 harden, and the fruit set, preparatory to passing through the winter 

 unharmed, and to produce fruit the next year. To cultivate late in 

 the season is to fill the plants with sap, and to make green tender 

 stalks and wood, which must winter-kill. Even if they escape the 

 winters's cold there will be little fruit. It is important to cut back 

 the canes of blackberries and raspberries, both to harden them and. 



