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orchard tliat was infected. I would watch closely and spray when ne- 

 cessity for it came. 



Question.— How long would you consider it safe to grow blackber- 

 ries in an orchard? 



'N. r. Murray. — I have in my eight acres of orchard Snyder black- 

 berries for three years. These berries protect the trees. I have never 

 grown an orchard that looked better. The berries pay from $35 to $60 

 per acre. How long this will continue I don't know. 



J. H. Karnes. — I have the two grown together for nine years. It 

 has paid every year. I don't think the berries have injured the trees 

 in any way whatever. The trees, by partial shade, have helped the 

 berries. It is safe for eight or nine years. The same is true of the 

 raspberry. 



Question. — How far from the trees are the berry bushes? 



Mr. Murray. — Mine are eight and one-half feet from the trees. 



Mr. Karnes. — There is no injury from having them close, though 

 they will be more difficult to get out; but a healthy, vigorous apple tree 

 will easily get the better of the berry bushes. 



Prof. Whitten. — The land in the orchard will be better for having 

 the blackberries in it for ten years. 



J. C. Evans. — The great trouble is to get them out when done with 

 them. 



Mr. Callaway. — Will an apple orchard be injured by raspberries 

 or blackberries? 



Maj. Holsinger. — ISTot by the blackberry or black raspberry upon 

 good soil. To get rid of them is more of a bugbear than anything else. 

 Cut them off, plow them up and they are gone. The best orchard I 

 have was grown with blackberries between. It paid well; was on rich 

 land. The rust comes along in five to seven years and cleans them up. 

 There is no preventive. If it was not for the rust this whole country 

 would be one great wild blackberry patch. Even the Snyder is rusting. 



I would not plant red raspberries in an orchard. Trees among 

 blackberries in my orchard are fifty per cent larger than those among 

 red raspberries. The trees never do recover from the injury caused by 

 red raspberries. I see no objection to blackberries in a young orchard. 



