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really, I do not see how I can be bothered with the raising it. I 

 would rather buy what the family needs." But, my dear brother, that 

 is the very thing you will not do. Not one man in a hundred who 

 does not raise his own small fruits supplies his family with thera in 

 the abundance which is so conducive to health and general content- 

 ment. The farmer's family which has an abundance of fruit, fresh 

 from its own garden, is the family which appreciates most fully the 

 blessed privilege of living in a country home where nature, in loving 

 recognition of a full appreciation of her bounteous gifts, smiles her 

 hap})y benedictions upon a contented and pros])erous peoj)le. 



THE RASPBERRY. 



W. J. HESSEE. 



I have been asked to prepare a paper on "Culture of Raspberries." 

 In doing so, I shall be compelled to repeat a portion of a former 

 paper, as my experiences since then have fully convinced me that my 

 views then expressed were correct and practical. 



Prior to 1880 I had set a few hundred plants of different variety 

 in open ground which were nearly a failure. About the spring of 

 1880 I concluded to try them in my apple orchard, which was set the 

 spring of 1873. The trees were planted 20x20. I set one row in 

 apple tree rows, about four or five plants between trees, and one row 

 between apple tree rows, making the rows ten feet apart. Plants four 

 to six feet aj)art in rows; as I only had a limited number of plants, 

 I wished to make them go as far as possible. I soon found this to be 

 a very great mistake. I had not at this time learned how to pinch 

 back the canes; they grew up tall, and, being far apart, were mainly 

 broken off at the ground by the winds. I soon set one plant between 

 each plant, making them two to three feet apart. As the young canes 

 started up in the spring I went through and pinched the top off' each 

 cane at a height of one and one-half to two feet. I usually go through 

 them three times each season, while they are making their growth, so 

 as to get all the canes as they get about the right height. This I re- 

 gard as very important. By so doing it causes the canes to produce 



