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that if they are not thus planted, the wind will whip them to a bare stalk, 
-and what the wind will not do toward killing them the hot sun may be trust- 
ed to perform. Also, if you plant as herein recommended, you can cover the 
plants with strawberry boxes or a handful of hay to protect from late frosts. 
Keep free from weeds by frequent working of the soil; this also con- 
serves moisture. Use no poles or supports of any kind, as they give undue 
advantage to the wind. Let the plants fall over on the ground. Cut out 
suckers as fast as they grow, and you will have ripe tomatoes to sell when 
they are worth $4 a bushel and to eat when they are worth six to ten cents 
a pound. 
For the general crop plant in better soil, but in Dakota do not put to- 
matoes on very rich ground. 
THE LOUDON RASPBERRY. 
PROF. S. B. GREEN, ST. ANTHONY PARK. 
As a general purpose raspberry, I know of none better for the average 
grower than the Loudon. It is of very vigorous growth, and produces a 
large number of bright red, firm berries for a long season. No other rasp- 
LOUDON RASPBERRY. 
berry on our grounds seems to have so many desirable qualities; but our 
soil is not first-class fruit land, as it is underlaid with sand at a depth of from 
four to ten feet. Some of our best raspberry growers have objected to it 
on the ground that the berries were so hard to pull off the plants until they 
were fully ripened, but this has not been especially noticeable with us. 
