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the first ones set and train them to fill the positions in which you wish 

 them to bear fruit. When you have the rows filled remove all surplus 

 runners. For hill culture in the field mark the rows 30 inches apart 

 and set the plants 12 or 15 inches apart in the row, keeping off all 

 runners so that the plants may stool. It may be necessary to combat 

 some of the pests which annov the strawberry grower, so I append 

 the best method obtainable. 



GENERAL TREATMENT FOR STRAWBERRY. 



When to spray and what to spray for: (1) When growth begins 

 and as often as necessary for rust or leaf spot, Bordeaux mixture; 

 (2) after picking fruit, cut and burn foliage on windy day; (3) at 

 first appearance of leaf roller, arsenical poison every week if necessary 

 but not after fruit is half formed. 



THE RASPBERRY. 



Next in line for quality, popularity, and quantity produced is the 

 raspberry. Following closely after the strawberry it fills a much-felt 

 want in the markets. If anything would make us cease to miss the 

 strawberry it is the advent of the raspberry season. There are several 

 varieties quite different in flavor and manner of growth. The same 

 method of treatment applies with but slight Variation to all varieties. 



Of course the soll must be thoroughlv prepared as for strawberries ; 

 if any difference the plowing should be unusually deep as the plants 

 once placed remain for several years and the roots should have every 

 opportunity to grow deep that the plants may obtain every possible 

 amount of moisture. This berry, as well as all other varieties, requires 

 a large amount of moisture in order to oroduce luscious fruit. 



Red raspberries are usually propagated bv transplanting the numer- 

 ous suckers which come up freely around the original hills. The black 

 raspberrv, usually termed the black cap, does not sucker so freely 

 and the best plants are obtained by cuttings laid down in the fall. 



For a commercial plantation the plants ai'e best placed four by eight 

 feet apart as this gives room to cultivate, disc, or spray without injury 

 to the plants. This is important to the commercial grower, as one 

 man and team can do more and better work in a day than half a 

 dozen men with band tools. The ground should at all times be kept 

 clean and well cultivated. 



The canes growing one summer bear fruit the next season and then 

 die, while new canes develop each year for the succeeding crop. Fre- 

 quently the canes which have fruited are allowed to remain until the 

 following spring before removal but better results are obtained bv 

 cutting and burning them as soon as the ci-op is harvested, besides 

 insects and fungous diseases are often destroved by so doing. In the 

 spring the growth of new canes should be thinned. From three to 

 five canes to the hill are better than a larger number. 



GOOSEBERRIES AND CURRANTS. 



These berries are easily grown and so far have not proved profitable 

 in a commercial wav in this section. I have known some growers to 

 experiment for a few years with them but they soon cleaned out the 

 plants and used the space for something more easilv turned into money. 



If you have the variety that you want and take the trouble to 

 encourage natural lavering it is best to grow vour own bushes. If vou 

 are depending on a nurseryman bv all means order very earlv. Thev 

 Start at a verv low temperature and even en route if the weather is 

 warm they will start to grow, which of course injures them. Any limb 

 with a root, however tiny. will make a bush if carefully transplanted 

 early in the season. 



