Ohio Small Fruit Improvement Association, Inc. 
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Officers 
B. C. HART, President 
Millersburg 
C. E. DRUMHELLER, Vice Pres. 
Buena Vista, Scioto Co. 
S. L. REED, Sec’y-Treas. 
O. A. E. S., Wooster 
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IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 
Protection 
Board of Directors 
B. C. HART 
C. E. DRUMHELLER 
A. P. SCHWEIZER 
W. W. TROWBRIDGE 
MRS. A. E. MILLER 
Millersburg, Ohio 
Dear Grower: 
Are you interested in planting raspberries this spring? If so, won’t you read this page and then 
the entire leaflet? We believe you will better understand why it pays to select Registered disease'free 
stoc\. 
There is money in raspberry growing now if you start right. This could not be said a few years 
ago. Then raspberries were so thoroughly diseased by virus and crown gall that only poor yields and 
shortdived plantations were obtained. 
Today by starting with Registered plants you start with clean diseaseTree plants. You will obtain 
excellent yields and long-lived plantations. Raspberry growing will again become a source of pleasure 
and profit to you. 
What are Registered Plants? About 12 years ago the Pathologists of the Ohio Experiment Station 
and the U. S. D. A. cooperating were told that unless diseases were checked the raspberry industry 
would cease to exist. They soon realised, too, that very few if any plantings were free of these pests. 
After a careful search a few plants were selected and propagated until a few hundred were produced. 
Nine years ago these few hundred were distributed to a number of growers now organized as the 
Ohio Small Fruit Improvement Association. These plantings were in turn carefully studied year after 
year and any disease appearing was burned out. This work was and is still handled by a disease special¬ 
ist (selected by the Ohio Experiment Station), who spends virtually his entire time in these plantings 
during the growing season. The term “Registered Plants” has been given to this propagating stock to 
distinguish it from all other propagating stock. 
Study the production records of Registered plants on the following page. Why take a chance 
when you can get Registered plants—plants with a history just as a registered animal or grain— and 
at no extra cost. 
Sincerely yours, 
Ohio Small Fruit Improvement Association, Inc. 
B. C. Hart, Pres, and Sales Mgr. 
Registered Stock Means: 
1 —Better Flavored Fruit. 2 —Longer Lived Plantations. 3 —Better Stands. 
4—Larger Yields. 5 —Larger Fruit. 6 —More Profits. 7— Satisfaction. 
