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temperatures. The canes or vines are long and similar in habit of 

 growth to the dewberrj% but are more robust. The berries are as 

 large as the largest blackberries, but are of the shape of dewberries. 

 They become a light red in color several days before they are ripe 

 and become a dark crimson when fully ripe. Eaten raw, they much 

 resemble the red raspberry in flavor, but are especially pleasing when 

 cooked, as in the process of cooking a rieh flavor is developed which 

 is intermediate between the red raspberry and the native dewberry 

 of the Pacific Coast (locally called the wild blackberry). They are 

 much in favor for home canning. Loganberry pies are populär wherever 

 known. The juice can be used for making a delicious summer drink. 

 A new method of utilizing .the crop has been developed within a few 

 yeaj'S, and that is placeing them upon the market in evaporated form. 

 A few years ago Mr. W. K. Newell, President of the State Board of 

 Horticulture, persuaded a few Oregon growers to evaporate some logan- 

 berries and he shipped the product to a prominent eastern house which 

 deals in dried fruits in order to have the product tested on the market, 

 particularly for making pies. A demand was at once found for this 

 new product and both demand and supply have been growing. This 

 year many tons of evaporated loganberries have been shipped from 

 Oregon to the east and the supply was not sufficient to fully meet the 

 deinand. The prices obtained by the growers for the evaporated logan- 

 berries have been from 18 to 22 cents per pound. About five pounds 

 of fresh berries are required to make one pound of evaporated, and 

 the amount of dried product per acre is from 2,000 to 3,000 pounds 

 on good land. Because of the large size of the loganberries they can be 

 picked at less cost than raspberries. 



The loganberry is propagated in the same way as the blackcap 

 raspberry; that is, from the tips. To obtain plants throw a spadeful 

 of earth over each tip of the new canes early in the fall. These tips 

 will root and the plants thus started be ready for planting the following 

 spring. 



The late Mr. A. M. A^spinwall of Brooks, Oregon, who was one 

 of the most extensive and successful growers of the loganberry, read 

 a paper at the annual meeting of the Oregon State Horticultural Society, 

 held in January, 1908, from which the following extracts are taken: 



"Select a deep, rieh, dark loam soll if you have it. A elay subsoil 

 is to be preferred to one of sandy or gravelly texture. Drainage is 

 important. If the water does not draw off naturally tile draining 

 should be provided. In planting I prefer the month of April if the 

 conditions of the soil are right. I prefer to . set the plants eight f eet 

 apart each way. The first year the vines will not interfere materially 

 with cultivation until about the first of August, after which they 

 frequently shoot out 18 or 20 feet, or even more, before winter. They 

 ehould be trellised during the fall. Build your trellis substantially. 

 Use good strong cedar posts and set them not farther than 32 feet 

 apart in the rows. Securely fasten to these three or four No. 12 

 galvanized wires, spaeing them equal distances apart. Train each 

 vine separately on the wires. Distribute evenly and see that each wire 

 carries its füll share of the weight. If practicable have the trellised 

 rows run north and south; thus the vines are proteeted from the pre- 

 vailing winds of the Willamette Valley and the fruit ripens more evenly. 

 As a rule the loganberry needs little pruning. Do not thin them out 

 until more than a dozen canes appear in a hill, and then remove only 

 the weaker canes. Cultivation should be thorough and frequent. I 

 prefer to plow both in the fall and in the spring, turning the furrow 

 against the row in the fall and into the center in the spring. Then 

 use the disc or spring-tooth harrow until in July. Start the cultivation 



