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in readiness and convenient to packing shed. For 10 acres it will take 

 about 150 pickers; put a sufiHcient number of field bosses out to super- 

 intend the pickers to see that the pickers pick clean the rows assigned 

 them and not bruise the fruit or put in any small or green fruit, stems 

 or leaves. Keep one person stationed near the shed with a good con- 

 ductor's punch to punch the tickets as the pickers come in or hand 

 checks out, whichever is used.. In providing carriers for the pickers 

 aiways keep 10 or 12 extra at the shed and have a boy to keep them 

 filled with empties from the crates as your packers take the fruit out 

 of them and set them just outside as tilled, so the pickers will only 

 have to set down the fall carrier and pick up an empty and return to 

 the held. Some have boys to carry empties to the pickers and bring 

 in the fruit, but I have found from experience that by laying out plan- 

 tation and drive as above that they do not have so far to go to empty, 

 but that they will, I believe, pick more berries in a day and carry their 

 own fruit, as it seems to rest them to walk to the shed and change 

 their position for a few moments. 



"As to prepared fertilizers I have never used any, as here in the 

 west the land is naturally rich, but we use all the stable manure and 

 ashes we make spreading it on in the fall and winter after the ground 

 freezes, leaving it to leach through the winter and early spring," — 

 Southwest. 



THE MILLER EARLY RED RASPBERRY. 



Question : Judge Miller, did you raise the Early Red Raspberry, 

 and what can you tell us about it ? No, I did not raise it ; never had 

 it until last spring. I cut the plants hack to the ground, and yet they 

 sent up some bearing canes, that bore as tine fruit as I have seen. My 

 faith is great in it. An eastern man "who grows it extensively says : 

 *' Should the Vanderbilts, the Goalds and the Astors distribute their 

 entire wealth among the people of the United States and Canada, the 

 public would not be benefited as much as it will by the introduction of 

 this berry." 



From the substantial testimonials given, it must be just what we 

 have been needing these many years. My plants have made a strong 

 growth, and if spared until the crop ripens we will know more about 

 it for this region. Its origin I do not know, but learn that the parries 

 raising it refused to sell plants for a number of years ; in an endeavor 

 to multiply it for their own planting, the fruit sold so well. In the 

 north the London is the favorite, but those who seem to know say that 

 the Miller is its equal, and the plants can be bought for half the price. — 

 Rural World. 



