Prof. Goff-So far as I know there is nothing better for strawberries than well rotted stable manure.

Q. Does Mr. Baumbach manure heavily?

J. S. Stickney-He does. He does not drain regularly but where there is a sag in the land he drains. He has irregular drains where needed.

J. D. Searles-Did he make a great outlay for that enormous crop?

J. D. Stickney-He did; he knows he is not the most economical grower, but he knows the balance is on the right side and that is all he wants. I draw my manure a long distance. If I can supplement that by commercial fertilizers in a practical way, it would be a great advantage to me.

J. D. Šearles-Mr. Henderson told us that he got nitrate of soda and put on a plant what he could take between his thumb and finger, and he got a great deal larger yield than he did with other fertilizers.

Prof. Goff-Mr. Henderson lived where manure was worth from three to five dollars per load. He said if he could have barn yard manure delivered for three dollars per cord he considered it the best of any fertilizer he could use. I do not think it is time for us in Wisconsin to substitute the commercial fertilizers for stable manure, we had better save all of the stable manure than to use them.

Discussion closed.

SMALL FRUITS FOR WISCONSIN AS PRODUCED IN 1894, ASIDE FROM STRAWBERRIES.

R. J. Coe, Ft. Atkinson.

I was away from Wisconsin until about the middle of July so a part of my talk will be what I found out by asking questions. Our grape crop was good in quality.

I was in New York about eight weeks and while there I looked up the small fruit crop a little. I found that there was

at least ten acres of small fruit grown there, to one acre here. I also found that it costs much more to grow an acre of fruit there than it does here; they do not think, in New York, of putting out an acre of small fruit without using commercial fertilizers in the proportion of about one-half a ton to an acre. If they can afford to use commercial fertilizers and get a smaller crop in return than we do and then take a less price, we in Wisconsin ought not to be discouraged at the outlook for small fruit. They sell nine-tenths of their fruit personally. One-half of their fruit they take out in the country and sell out of their wagons for six cents a quart. They sold blackberries for five cents, and yet they were making a good living at it. Geo. J. Kellogg I have no paper on this subject. best small fruits I had last season, aside from strawberries, was gooseberries, and they were the Downing; I believe that is the best gooseberry we can plant. I would not give a cent an acre, if you would put them out for me, for the Industry, and I feel the same about the Fay currant. The currant worm did not trouble us ten cents worth this year and we did not spray for them either. The Older raspberry was taken almost entirely clean by the June frost. The later varieties that were not in blossom at the time of the frost, gave us about half a crop. Cuthbert gave about half a crop.

The

A. A. Parsons-For red raspberries we grow, to the exclu sion of all others, the Marlboro. We used to grow the Cuthbert, but we do not grow so many now, as formerly. We are growing, for a late variety, the Brandywine. For black, we grow the Gregg As we have no foreign market that would pay us to ship to, we must sell on the home market.

We grow the Briton blackberry and Downing gooseberry. Of currants the Cherry and Red Dutch; the Red Dutch yields well.

Of grapes we grow Concord, Delaware and Brighton.

DISCUSSION.

J. S. Stickney-My currant crop was four hundred bushels from about four acres, from bushes planted eight or nine years

ago and neglected ever since. They are about one-half Holland and one-half Prince Albert.

When I put out my new plantation, I planted eight acres and planted five feet apart each way. I do not propose to neglect those as I have the others. One and one-half acres of the new plantation are the Fay; they will, no doubt, cultivate my patience, and that probably needs cultivation. The faith that I had in them came from the first one hundred plants I got; the growth pleased me and the fruit pleased me also. In a very brief time I made plants enough to plant out six acres.

If you will cultivate your ground well and hill up your plants, and cut back to the ground, you will get all the plants you want. I am convinced of one thing with regard to the Fay and that is it is necessary for you to make your ground rich and keep it rich. In other words, give the best of cultivation.

A. G. Tuttle-Several years ago, I had a row of Fay and along side of it, a row of Long Bunch Holland. From the Fay I picked sixteen quarts, and from the Holland I picked ninetysix quarts. They had the same cultivation.

J. D. Searles-I want to know about a very fine blackberry in this state, which I believe came from Wales, that has no name. I suggest that Mr. Stickney and Mr. Tuttle be appointed a committee to give that child a name.

President-I will refer that subject to the committee on nomenclature.

J. S. Stickney-I will not take two minutes of your time to tell all I know about that blackberry.

He claimed he

I received the stock from Robert Hassel. got it from the old country under the name of Ancient Briton. I sent some of that stock to Mr. Tuttle as the Ancient Briton, and if it is not the Briton, I do not know what it is.

A. L. Hatch-Yesterday, Mr. Noel France made the suggestion that we do as the bee-keepers do, that is, when we have a disputed fruit, that we follow out our investigation and settle the point.

I move that the president appoint a committee of three on field trials. Carried

President—I will appoint on that committee Noel France, A. L. Hatch, and J. S. Stickney.

Adjourned.

Wednesday Evening, Senate Chamber.

The program for the evening was opened with a selection from James Whitcomb Riley, entitled: "Thoughts for the Discouraged Farmer," and given by Mrs. Janet B. Day. Mrs. Day was heartily encored and responded by giving, "She Leiked Him Rale Weel."

PRUNING AND GRAFTING IN SEASON.

Mrs. E. W. Fisher, Janesville.

It seems to me that all lovers of nature cannot help feeling interested in horticulture and horticultural meetings. It is a fact, not to be disputed, that God considered a garden the most beautiful place on earth for a home or he would not have chosen it when he had the whole world to choose from.

And can we conceive of anything that adds more beauty, happiness, or wealth to a home than its horticultural surroundings?

We are not satisfied with beautiful, fragrant flowers in our gardens, we want them to be a part of our own lives. We gather to ornament our parlor, to grace our hall, to perfume our sleeping apartments, to add dignity to our dining room, and a bouquet is even placed beside the kitchen clock to sweeten the disposition of our servants.

This is also true of the great variety of delicious fruits the infinite Creator has placed within our reach which are beautiful to the eye and pleasant to the taste.

So with the many ornamental trees, shrubs and vines. We plant for windbreaks, for hedges, for the beauty of a single

specimen or group them together, forming a background to our lawn, or a screen before an unsightly object. We train the vines about our porches, or over trellises, in our garden.

Neither are we satisfied with our conduct, for we prune, and then graft from other's virtues. This may not be true in every case. Possibly there are those about us who are blind to the matchless beauty of purified character, and yet sometimes the thought comes to me, they are not blind, but "born tired." It is not the fragrance of the flowers, or the flavor of the fruit they dislike, but the seed time, the planting, the destroying of weeds and insects. They are not capable of pruning, and grafting, neither would they have the ambition to do it in season if they were. Oh, I wish we might show them there is a kind of pruning and grafting, which means more than the cutting of twigs, or the grafting of a new head on the old root, or that they might be grafted in this way.

Do they realize that over their moral and intellectual being they have full sway, and that unless they are wise in season, they cannot be happy in old age? Need we say to them:

"Life is before you, from the fated road
Ye cannot turn, then take ye up the load.
Not yours to tread, or leave the unknown way.
Ye must go o'er it, meet ye what ye may?"

Surely they know that the seed sown, will spring up in blessings or curses, and if they were born poor, genius, the greatest gift to man, was nourished in poverty; and that in destitution and adversity men have studied and trained themselves, have pruned, and grafted until they have emanated from their surroundings the shining lights of their times.

Thep applied the gladiatorial method of training physically, to their mental training, and had plenty of what Robert Collyer defines "clear grit." He says: "It is the best there is in a man, blossoming into the best he can do, in as sweet and true a fashion as a rose blossoms, or a bird sings. It is that noble quality in man, or woman, which will never give way except, in a true way, and for a good reason."

Their early life should not be spent in fruitless endeavor. It would be folly to attempt to reach the skies by mountain