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BETTER FRUIT 



Success With Evergreen Blackberries 



ON HIS farm on the Pacific Highway, 

 just outside of Gervais, Oregon, Sam 

 Brown has 35 acres of evergreen black- 

 berries which were planted from tips in 

 November, 1916. In 1919 the crop 

 amounted to 15 tons. In 1920 the crop 

 was very light because of frost. This year 

 Mr. Brown harvested 125 tons and he is 

 confident that when his yard comes into 

 full bearing he will obtain a yield of 200 

 tons a year. 



Recounting his experience with the 

 evergreens to The Salem Statesman, Mr. 

 Brown said that, contrary to general opin- 

 ion, they are hard to start. It is as difficult 

 to start them as it is to kill them when 

 thoroughly started. He advises the begin- 

 ner to use tips for pl.".nting and not 

 suckers. 



Then cultivate each year, just the same 

 as loganberries. The onlv difference is 

 in the trellising. Evergreens will respond 

 as well as or better than logans. 



He planted in rows eight feet apart 

 and 16 feet apart in the rows. The posts 

 ought to be four feet three inches high. 

 He made his a little higher, but he is 

 going to hammer them down, because posts 

 higher than that make the top wire so 

 high that the picking is difficult by women 

 and children. Reaching too high tires 

 them and retards the work. 



There are four wires for evergreens, 

 the top wire No. 10 and the bottom wire 

 No. 12, and the wires are 12 inches apart. 

 He uses cross-arms and small slats one 

 by one and five-eighths inches, notched for 

 the wires. The vines lay over one slat and 

 under the next. 



IITR. BROWN uses tractors in culti- 

 ■'■'-'■ vating. He has two tractors. Each 

 tractor pulls a plow and two discs, the 

 discs following the plow — the cultivating 

 being done all at one operation. The 

 ground should be smooth. Do not hill 

 up. The hilling up will make the ever- 

 greens as well as the logans crawl up to 

 meet the hilling. Forces were at work in 

 the evergreen vineyard of Mr. Brown, 

 last month, cutting away the old vines, 

 which will be burned, and getting ready 

 to train the new canes that will bear the 

 berries ne.xt year. 



Mr. Brown has 85 acres of loganberries. 

 He has also a young filbert orchard of 

 35 acres, and he is going into walnuts, 

 gradually. So he knows what he is talk- 

 ing about when he says it is more ex- 

 pensive to start an evergreen than a logan 

 yard. It takes more wires and larger and 

 more expensive wires. The evergreens are 

 very heav)', and require strong wires. Then 

 it takes longer for the evergreens to come 

 into full bearing. A good sized crop may 

 be taken from loganberry vines the third 

 year, while not a great deal may be ex- 

 pected in the way of profitable yields 

 from evergreen vines till the fifth year. 



This means more preliminary labor cost, 

 and rent or tax cost and interest cost. 



But the evergreens, under favorable 

 conditions, yield more than logans. The 

 reader will observe that Mr. Brown is ex- 

 pecting about 12,000 pounds to the acre 

 from his evergreens annually. Some ever- 

 green vines have yielded over 16,000 

 pounds to the acre. Some small yards did 

 this year in the Salem district. Yields run 

 up to 22,000 pounds an acre on beaverdam 

 land. 



Loganberries and evergreen blackberries 

 make good succession crops. The picking 

 of the logans is done and out of the way 



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when the evergreen harvesting starts. Mr. 

 Brown started his loganberry pickers June 

 27. He finished the blackberry picking 

 Saturday night, September 17, getting 225 

 tons of loganberries and 125 tons of ever- 

 greens. He has two trucks, and he helps 

 his neighbors deliver their crops. His 

 trucks hauled to market during the sea- 

 son about 700 tons of berries, half his own 

 and half for his neighbors. 



Mr. Brown has about 200 pickers dur- 

 ing the loganberry harvest and 100 dur- 

 ing evergreen blackberry harvest; part of 

 the same crew, just moving from one 

 yard to the other. The season is longer 

 for picking evergreens than logans. He 

 keeps five steadv men the year t.'i-ough. 

 and six extra men during the summer. 



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