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iS. Spr;i> iiig. Hc-avy spniving of trees, 

 especially before ijollination, has in 

 some few instances resulted in a loss of 

 blossoms. This is not serious, however. 

 — W. W. Hobbins in "The Fruit Belt." 



Loganberries 



I>oganberries designed for marketing 

 fresh, for canning or for evai)oralion 

 purposes are best when picked at the 

 hard-ripe stage, just as the berries arc 

 beginning to turn black. When it is 

 necessary to begin earlier than this and 

 ])ick the berries before they reach this 

 stage the> may be used with a fair 

 degree of success for making jcllx', and 

 when it is not possible to pick them fast 

 enough to prevent them from passing 

 the hard-ripe stage they will be found 

 to be at the best stage for making Jells. 

 Juices and Jam. Finally, berries that 

 cannot be cared for until they become 

 moldy, provided they are not actually 

 decomposing, may be made into heavy 

 syrups for confection and flavoring 

 purposes. By thus taking evcr> ad- 

 vantage of the dilVerent stages of 

 maturity of the berry crop and by be- 

 ginning as early as ])ossible and con- 

 tinuing the operations as long as neces- 

 sary, it is often possible to save and use 

 to the best advantage the entire crop. 

 These conclusions concerning the best 

 use of the loganbei'ry were reached in 

 a series of experiments conducted by 

 I'rof. C. I. r.ewis and assistants at Oie- 

 gon Agricultural College. Aside from 

 the infoimation as to the best stage for 

 picking bellies the laboiatory tests 

 have developed methods of procedure 

 in ])icking, transferring and manufac- 

 luiing loganberries wilh the least ex- 

 |)endilure of lime and wilh Ihe nu'ni- 

 imun loss of fiuil. 



Three points ijarticularlx emphasizeil 

 b\' Professor Lewis in picking the ber- 

 ries are that Ibex should be picked 

 early in the morning while it is cool, 

 they should he taken from the vine 

 wilh a slight twisting motion of the 

 wiist rather than ])ulled straight from 

 the stem, and the picker should not 

 hold too many berries in his hand at 

 one time. Loganberries picked in the 

 cool of the day were shown to evapo- 

 rate with better weight and form than 

 those i)icked in the heat. It was also 

 shown that Juice extracted from logan- 

 berries whcTi they were cool is less 

 all'ected by fermentation than when 

 taken from berries that are warm. In- 

 deed it is recommended that if it is 

 impossible to gather the entire picking 

 in the forenoon that those berries 

 picked in the afteinoon be stored in a 

 suitable place until the next morning, 

 when the Juice will be extracted more 

 satisfactorih-. When the berries arc 

 [licked by a straight i)ull they are fre- 

 quently damaged by lateral pressure of 

 Ihe lingers in holding them, and also 

 fi((iuently come awa\ wilh more or 

 less stems and leaves attached. A 

 genlle twisting motion avoids bolli (if 

 lluse dillicullies, so that the berries arc 

 Miin, entile and free from trash. Ber- 

 ries, especially when lhe> are ripe, 

 melt down and lose form rapidly when 

 held in Ihe hand. This evidenllv is due 



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