Miscellaneous. 407 



These matters were discussed at some length at the meeting of the 

 Southwestern Iowa Horticultural Society in Glenwood recently, and at 

 that time a special committee, consisting of D. L. Heinsheimer, of Glen- 

 wood ; J. P. Hess, of Council Bluffs, and W. M. Bomberger, of Harlan, 

 was appointed to interview the various Western railroads upon the mat- 

 ter, and get a readjustment of rates, if possible. The committee w^ill take 

 up the matter at once and make a vigorous campaign to establish more 

 equitable conditions for Western fruit men. 



Especial complaint is made of the Western rates on apples. It ap- 

 pears that the rate on apples is about three times that on grain and other 

 produce. The apple men of I'owa say this stands in their way more than 

 anything else. They can't compete with the apple growers of Michigan 

 and New York, who have only to pay about half the freight rate that 

 Iowa growers do. For instance, it only costs $iii on a car of apples from 

 New York to Omaha, while from Glenwood to Western Nebraska, a third 

 of the distance, the rate is $240 a car. — Fruit Trade Journal. 



RED RASPBERRIES ALWAYS PAY. 



Very few people know how to properly care for a red raspberr> 

 patch or else they don't do as well as they know how. As one rides 

 through the country he is met with the unsightly briar patch in the far- 

 mer's garden, which is a nuisance, instead of being a source of pleasure 

 and profit to the farmer and his family. The source of the trouble is in 

 the fact that red raspberries increase or make new plants from the roots, 

 unlike the blackcaps or purple raspberries, which increase from the tip 

 ends of the canes when buried. The farmer sets out 100 raspberry plants 

 and, in a few years, he has thousands of them. The more plants, the 

 fewer berries. The secret of getting good crops is to treat the young 

 plants that come up outside the hill, just as you would thistles or other 

 weeds, cut them off with the hoe. 



The red raspberry is the most popular small fruit grown. It always 

 commands a ready sale, because of the exquisite quality and the fact that 

 most farmers are too shiftless to properly care for them. These berries 

 sold in Boston during the season of 1902. when shipped from Oswego, 

 N. Y., as high as 20 to 25 cents per quart wholesale. When we learn that 

 with right culture they are nearly, if not quite, as productive as strawber- 

 ries, we can readily see that they are very profitable to grow. 



Knowing that the red raspberry yield is in inverse proportion to the 

 number of canes, the farmer should see to it that he gets just the right 

 number and length of cane necessary for maximum crops. To do this, 

 he should proceed about in this line. 



