Ohio Small Fruit Improvement Association, Inc. 
iRegistered^Disease- pfree ^Raspberry Plants 
Officers 
B. C. HART, President 
C. E. DRUMHELLER, Vice Pres. 
MRS. SARA NORRIS, Sec’y-Treas. 
O. A. E. S., Wooster, Ohio 
For Your 
REGISTERED 
STOCK 
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IDE OHIO SMALL FRUIT 
IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 
Protection 
Board of Directors 
B. C. HART 
C. E. DRUMHELLER 
A. P. SCHWEIZER 
MRS. A. E. MILLER 
T. E. SHOOK 
503 Peoples Savings & Loan Bldg. 
Wooster, Ohio. 
Dear Grower: 
F{ow is the time for You to plant raspberries. Why? Because raspberry growing can and will be 
more profitable during the next 7 or 8 years than for many seasons. Why is this? In the first place 
fruit prices are climbing, as evidenced by the season of 1936. Low fruit prices from 1932 to 1935 
and severe winter injury have eliminated many plantations. The supply is thus reduced, but the de- 
mand for fruit is increasing as times get better. The result will inevitably be good prices and a real 
profit to growers with foresight. Secondly, Registered Disease'free plants are now available to you. 
During the decade from 1920 to 1930 the virus or so-called running out diseases of raspberries caused 
tremendous losses to growers and, in fact, almost eliminated the raspberry industry in this state. You 
were licked before you started then, because you could not obtain good planting stock. Your plantings 
were always badly diseased because the disease was present in a large percentage of the plants which 
you set. 
The story is different now—that is, if you take advantage of the many years of research work 
done by state experiment stations and of the efforts of the Ohio Small Fruit Improvement Associ- 
ation. Registered (Disease-Free) plants are now available to you. Prevention is the only way to con¬ 
trol the raspberry virus diseases. 
Registered Plants are propagated from parent plantings which have been carefully inspected 
by a trained inspector under the supervision of the Ohio Experiment Station. Each planting is inspected 
four times each year. If the rigid and extremely strict disease standards are not met by a given plan¬ 
tation, that plantation is summarily rejected as a source of registered plants. If diseased plants arc 
found, they are promptly removed by methods which prevent spread of the disease. 
Registered Stock is Disease-free, the tip plants are strong and vigorous, and true to name. Why 
take chances 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 Iruit. 2—Longer lived plantations. 
4—Larger yields. 5—Larger fruit. 6—More profits. 
3—Better stands. 
7—Satisf action. 
