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expect. We however find that currants under shelter, that is, where 

 they have the shelter of the garden fence, have done well. We have 

 found as good crops of currants where they were properly sheltered 

 from the sun and south winds as good as anything we have seen in 

 Illinois or other eastern states. 



It is advisable always, in the growing of any of these small fruits 

 for profit, to study the conditions which insure success and try to 

 meet them. This being done, we feel sure that it would well repay 

 any man with a careful, painstaking turn of mind to engage in the 

 growing of small fruits in a moderate way, near any town in Nebraska. 

 He will find that the consumption of fruit steadily increases with the 

 supply of fruit of satisfactory character, and that in a short time he 

 is able to build up a very nice business. In addition to this, the re- 

 turns come in so quickly that it will help to maintain his orchard on 

 which he will probably place his main dependence in later years. 



Since Nebraska is so large a state, with various climatic conditions 

 and varying soils, we would regard it as quite important that each 

 planter proposing to establish a plantation should ascertain by cor- 

 respondence and by personally visiting the parties engaged therein 

 nearest to him, what succeeds best in his locality, what varieties and 

 what methods, and then the careful and painstaking following of 

 those methods, with an eye open to any improvements which may 

 suggest themselves from time to time of himself, or his acquaintances 

 or the horticultural people in general, will lead toward a fair success. 

 Competition in all lines of business at this time is so excessive that 

 we do not know of any line of business that promises very large 

 profits, but he who is content to do plenty of work for fair prices and 

 moderate profits, can engage in the growing of small fruits with con- 

 fidence. 



DISCUSSION. 



Carpenter — In Stephens' paper he states that we cannot grow 

 grapes as cheaply as eastern men ; I think this is a mistake, for their 

 land is dear and the cost of labor is about the same as here ; on the 

 contrary, I believe if we would adopt their methods of growing and 

 marketing grapes we could successfully compete with grape growers 

 in any part of the United States ; at any rate it is a shame that we 

 buy so many car loads of grapes from the east when they could be 

 grown here just as well as not. In our town of Fairbury last fall 



