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later. I intended to make a fourth application after -the crop was gath- 

 ered, but the pressure or other business prevented. 



Now for results. I watched very -closely and could not detect much 

 of the disease on the canes, and thought I had about eradicated it ; but 

 this spring I found it was not to be so easily conquered. 



Did I say "so easily conquered?" If you had held a knapsack 

 sprayer strapped to your back, as I did mine, and carried it for a half 

 day, you would probably conclude that it was not an easy job. I found 

 a great many of the best canes badly diseased, some entirely dead, and 

 I was thoroughly discouraged. The strange part of it to me is that the 

 late, small canes were most of them healthy, and I have the promise, 

 of a half crop. The Cuthberts are the best this year they have ever been, 

 and will give us more fruit. 



I am spraying again this spring, but am using a barrel sprayer, and 

 can do a better job, as it breaks the mixture into a finer mist. I notice- 

 that it is almost impossible to cover the canes, as it gathers in drops on 

 them. I can cover the leaves all right, but that is not the part affected.^ 



To sum the matter up, I can not see as the spraying did much good,. 

 and I am afraid I will have to give up growing the raspberry on ac- 

 count of anthracnose. I hope this paper may be the means of bringing 

 on a discussion of spraying for anthracnose, and if you have been suc- 

 cessful, let me know what preparation was used and when and how it 

 was applied. 



PRUNING THE RASPBERRY. 



(By J. F. Wilcox, St. Joseph, ^lo.) 



In pruning the raspberry in this section of the State there are so 

 many and varied methods practiced that the conditions should be un- 

 derstood to harmonize these differences. Of course the extent of prun- 

 ing depends on the width of rows and distance between plants. Some 

 set plant rows 6 feet apart, the plants i8 to 20 inches in row, cutting 

 laterals back to 6 to 10 inches, 3 to 5 canes in a hill. Some set rows 7 

 feet apart with plants 15 to 24 inches apart, 5 to 6 canes in the hill; 

 laterals cut to 12 to 18 inches. Again, some are planting rows 10 feet 

 apart, with plants 12 to 15 inches apart. This is a new departure and 

 time only will tell the result. My individual opinion is that 7 feet in 

 width of rows and plants 3 to 3 1-2 feet in rows, with laterals cut back 

 to 15 to 20 nches, and 4 to 6 stalks left in hill, is, all points considered, 

 about the proper training for the Kansas or Gregg raspberry, as the- 



