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EXPERIMENTAL FAIiMti 



5 GEORGE v., A. 1915 



BUSH FKUITS. 



The work in small fruit culture at this Station has not. been conducted sufficiently 

 long to be of much value as a test of varieties. The dilficulty has been to get anything 

 started, and even yet we have no gooseberries. Black currants planted in 1911 yielded 

 a small crop ini 1913, and so with the red and white currants. Better results were 

 obtained from the raspberries. Following are the yields for 1913 of the raapfcerries 

 under experiment that were planted in 1911 : — 



To protect the raspberries from danger of froet they were bent over in the 

 autumn and the tips were weighted with a shovelful of earth, and over the whole 

 again was placed a layer of straw 1 foot in thickness, and the straw was held in 

 place by poplar poles. In the spring, after the snow had left they were uncovered and 

 nothing more was done the remainder of the season than keeping the weeds down. 

 After the berries were picked the canes that had fruited were removed. 



STrtA\\^ERRIES. 



Difficulty has been experienced in obtaining a start in strawberry culture. The 

 plants received from a distance are usually pretty much dried, and out of fifty we 

 could not get more than from three to ten to grow. However, by nurturing th<ese 

 carefully and using the rumiers for new plants we have a start in a new variety the 

 second year after receiving the plants. As a consequence of this difficulty all the rows 

 of the different varieties are not complete and the comparison in point of yield is 

 hardly reliable. The following table giving the number of plants in the different rows 

 and the yields of the same, will give a fair idea of what may result from a small 

 patch of strawberries: — 



Variety. 



No. of 

 Plants 

 in row. 



Yield 

 in 



pints. 



The season of 1913 was the first in which we had a crop of strawberries. It was 

 also the first season in which the winter mulch of straw was left in place later than 



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