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R. M. KELLOGG'S GREAT CROPS ON 
many living in the vicinity of its home, near 
Dayton, Ohio, who have seen it in bearing and 
eaten the fruit; that it excels in Earliness. 
Hardiness, Large Size, Productiveness, Supe- 
prior Quality, Perfect Bloom, Good Shipping 
qualities. Desirable Color, Vigorous Growth, 
and its Entire Freedom from Rust, always pro- 
ducing bright, clean, healthy foliage. It equals 
if not exceeds, the Crescent in yield, is larger 
and more uniform in size, darker in color, bet- 
ter shipper, perfect blossom. Certainly its 
many superior points commend it to planters. 
The Orescent (P.) 
has probably made more money for fruit- 
growers than any other variety. It is rather 
light color and not quite firm enough, yet it 
looks very beautiful in boxes. It has a strong 
competitor m Warfteld, and I am dispo.sed to 
give that variety the preference. 
CUMBERr,ANI> iB.i 
is a beautiful berry but too light color and too 
soft. The sun quickly fades it out after being 
picked and a weakness of such a character is 
difficult to improve by selection and so we have 
discarded it. 
Shabplkss (B.) 
is the largest berry grown and about the most 
unreliable. It seems to bring its bloEsoms out 
nearly all at once so high above the foliage and 
is so very tender that the least fro.st kills them 
all. We do not grow it. 
Shall Farmers Orow Berries. 
Concerning the question. Which is best for 
the fanner — to grow or buy small fruits, Mr. 
Van Alstyne at the Albion, N. Y., farmers' 
institute, said-. "The trouble is the farmer 
doesn't buy them; he says he can buy them 
more cheaply than he can raise them; but, 
somehow, he never ha.s any. If he does buy 
any, it is but few. On the other hand, if he 
grows and cares for them, he will have a suffi- 
ciency. As a rule, the man in the city or 
village who must buy his fruit, has much more 
of it on his table than does the average farmer, 
who should and can, if he will, raise all he 
needs of all varieties and have them in succes- 
sion during the entire season and plenty of 
them in cans for winter use. Those farmers 
who tell you how much more cheaply they can 
buy these fruits, never buy any, and if ary are 
found on their tables, it is because the mother 
and children have been skirmishing over th& 
fields, through the woods and along the fences- 
and roads, in the boiling sun, and picked them. 
That is about the way these 'buy cheaper' 
farmers usually ' buy ' (?) their supply of these 
fruits." 
KASPBKKKIES. 
All that has been said in these pages in 
regard to seminal exhaustion and consequent 
degeneration of strawberries applies with 
increased force to raspberries, blackberries and 
grapes. 
We assert that plants taken from a fruiting 
bed which has been allowed to overbear and 
become exhausted will transmit their weakness 
through several generations. 
The Pniniug: 
should be done very closely, the branches being 
left not over two or three inches long and after 
the ftuit is set if the field is to be used for 
propagating purposes it should be gone over 
and all plants overloaded cut off so that it shall 
not overbear. You will get almost as many 
quarts and they will sell for enough more to- 
make up the difference. As in the case with 
strawberries it is the formation of seeds that 
causes exhaustion. 
(How TO Prune Klaokcai's.) 
A Test. 
Take the largest and most thrifty stool of 
blackcaps you can find, mark it with a stake, 
let it stand and fruit heavily without pruning 
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