8 R. m. KELLoaa's oreat crops of 
a customer berries in a dirty box or wrangle 
about the price. 
Make your jirioe what it should be and 
stick to it. Never overcharge nor accept a 
low price for a fancy article. If you do not 
like selling to private families you will have 
no trouble to arrange with a leading grocer 
to handle all your fruit, by having it an- 
nounced in all the local papers that he sells 
your fancy fruit. Keep the paper full of 
".squibs" about your berries. It costs 
something but pays big. Customers will 
flock to your dealer so he will be glad to 
handle your fruit and pay you full retail 
price, as customers will purchase many other 
things. He will not expect over one cent per 
quart in any case for handling them. \Ve 
have families in Detroit and Saginaw who 
have one or more bushels sent them direct 
every day by express and they divide them 
among themselves. Other " groups " see the 
berries and order and thus orders come from 
all directions so we are put to our wits end 
as to how we can supply the demand. 
A glutted })iiirket. It takes only a small 
quantity of little dirtj- berries that people 
will not eat, to glut any market. I have 
never seen the market fairly well supplied 
with fancy fruit. Enquire of your dealers 
and they will tell you the demand for line 
fruit has never been met. 
The Wilson Alhanv. 
THE FAKMEU'S FRUIT 
OAKDEN. 
No place on the farm will furnish so much 
health, pleasure and profit as a small plat 
set aside for a succession of asparagus, 
strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and 
grapes. It furnishes concentrated deliciou.s- 
ness for your table all summer long. With 
plenty of berries, which can be gathered in 
a few minutes, a few other nicknacks, and 
the meal is ready. It only requires a few 
strong fruiting pedigree plants and a little 
delightful evening recreation in the way of 
caring for them and the pleasure is yours. 
If you can use tlie Iior.se for culti- 
vating, set in long rows as the nature of 
ground will permit. If all the work is to be 
done by hand and plants are to be kept in 
hills, set two rows one foot apart and plants 
18 inches apart in the row and then leave an 
alley two feet wide in which to stand to 
pick the berries and hoe. Set pistillates 
(female) and staminates (male) plants to- 
gether. If you wish to let them run in nar- 
row rows, set two and a half feet apart 
and twenty inches in row and cut off all 
runners till the middle of July, then let 
them form and root and cut olT all runners 
after they have made one plant and you will 
get berries that will astonish you. Of course 
you will hoe frequently during the drouth 
and keep weeds out. 
There is an iiisiueiise aiuouiit of 
pleasure in seeing the good things coming 
on, and when the great delicious beauties 
begin to turn red, there will be no diffi- 
culty in keeping the boys in the patch, 
and when you send a negligent neighbor a 
dish you will enjoy both his envy and grat- 
itude. 
The Banquet. 
SELECTING A SITE. 
I do not care to spend much time on this 
subject. Everybody knows good land when 
they see it. How would it do for a garden? 
Hard, flinty clay or light, drifting- sand are 
bad. A light clay or sand loam are best. 
Stony land is good if it does not interfere 
with cultivation. Cold, springy land is bad. 
High land, that is land which is higher 
than any in the immediate vicinity is best. 
Cold air runs off the hills onto low land 
precisely the same as water, so that a low 
piece of ground with high land all around 
it should not be selected. Level land with 
no high hills near it will do. A south in- 
cline matures fruit early and a north incline 
makes the same variety later. 
MANURING THE GROUND. 
stable manure is the best. I should pre- 
fer to have it well i-otted, but that cannot 
always be had. Get the best you can find, 
even if you have to draw it as fast as made. 
Spread it evenly over the ground during 
the winter and early spring. Do not put in 
piles. The deep snow is no objection to 
spreading it. The winter and spring rains 
will wash the juices into the ground so it 
