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Wisconsin State Horticultural Society / Annual report of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society for the year 1910
Volume XL, Part II (1910)
Nourse, Harvey
Big Bayfield berries, pp. 59-63
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WINTE MEKrNG. cepting a few on orders. We do not get the big prices that I see they do in Sparta, 'but we have better shipping facilities; they go by refrigerator cars, and we know what the prices are; we think we have a pretty good commission man at Minneapo- li we could not do better than he can do. Mr. G. J. Kellogg: What is your best black raspberryI Mr. Morse: We think the Kansas is about the best. We have the Plum Farmer, that is very good. Mr. M. S. Kellogg: 'What varieties of blackberries? Mr. Morse. Mostly Ancient Briton. They are raising a few Eldorados on account of their earliness, their price is better, they do not last as long as Ancient Briton. A Member: Is the Eldorado as productive as the Ancient Briton? Mr. Morse: No sir, they are not, but it is a nice big berry. BIG BAYFIELD BERRIES. HARvEY NouRsi, Bayfield, Wia. The subject assigned to me by your Secretary suggests the style of berries grown at Bayfield, but if size of berry were all, this in itself would not make berry growing a success, how- ever, we have the quality and the yield as well. First, as to big berries, I have seen berries picked from my strawberry fields measure seven inches in circumference. One of our growers declares he filled a quart box with eight berries and quite a number of boxes each with sixteen and twenty berries. I have known a day's picking of the Senator Dunlap variety to count about 26 berries to the quart and there are other varieties much larger than the Senator Dunlap but we have yet to find in our section a better variety. F. V. Holston of our city, one of the first men to engage in strawberry grow- ing, a number of years ago sold to the Stone-Ordean Company in Duluth two twenty-four quart crates of strawberries at $5.00 per crate under a guarantee that not a berry in the crate should measure less than five inches in circumference. They wrote Mr. Holston afterwards that they were very much pleased and the 59
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