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the rows. I cultivate the first year like strawberries; when the plants 

 are fifteen inches hightoiD them the first year; but after the first year 

 top them when they are three feet high. Keep this up until all the 

 young canes are topped. Shorten the side branches to fifteen 

 inches, plow twice a year and in fall or winter throw a shovel full 

 of manure to each hill. I have twenty-two varieties, but plant 

 Centennial, Hoi^kins, Mammoth Cluster and Gregg for my best 

 black-caps, and Brandywine, Thwack and Turner as the best reds. 



I have two acres of raspberries ; have not kept any account of 

 what they brought me, but I know they brought me some days ten 

 dollars per da}^ from neighbors who picked the berries themselves, 

 or about eight cents per quart. 



I had very good success in planting strawberries among rasp- 

 berries — three strawberry plants between each two raspberry plants, 

 both set at the same time and the same cultivation answering for 

 both. In this way, I had this season a full crop of strawberries, 

 and when they were about gone, the raspberries came in and made 

 a full crop, but it takes more manure. I will plant two acres next 

 spring, all this way. It was a beautiful sight, and was admired by 

 all who saw it. One Sunday evening I counted ninety-seven 

 persons who visited me to see the sight. 



Blackberries, *I have tested seven varieties. I plant Kittatinny 

 and Snyder, rows seven feet apart, and ten to eighteen inches 

 apart in the row, cultivate and top oif like raspberries. Black- 

 berries bore a fair crop, but as yet have not paid me much, though 

 only the first crojD. Between the rows I grow potatoes, cabbage and 

 beans. I have a selection of new varieties, but not sufficiently 

 tested yet. 



I see the curculio will be discussed ; I have learned by 

 experience and observation that ^Jlums cannot be successfully grown 

 unless hogs are allowed to run in the orchard to eat all the fallen 

 fruit which is stung by the curculio. I have seen plum orchards 

 bear good crops for from three to five years, but the curculio stung 

 fruit was allowed to rot on the ground, which are now perfectly 

 worthless and within a mile of same soil and locality, with 

 care and where hogs were allowed to eat the fallen fruit, good 

 and paying crops have been raised every year. I believe one acre of 

 plums is worth two acres of corn for hogs, and can be grown for 

 much less. 



Plums can be kept for months in barrels in water. 



It IS very beneficial to plums after they drop the bloom to 

 smoke them once or twice a week with tar and sulphur. 



