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plow and run a furrow the long way of the ground. I have my 

 plants in half of a kerosene barrel which is set on a stone boat 

 and drawn by a horse. My plants are always in water. This 

 big shovel will very nearly make the furrow deep enough. We 

 take the plants right out of the water and put them in the furrow 

 and put a little fine dirt around the root, and we cover them 

 up pretty nearly level. When I first began raspberry culture 

 years ago I used to set with the spade, but I found the difficulty 

 was that the spade left an air chamber — I had very poor success 

 by that method. We carry our plants right with us in water, 

 the soil is in good condition, the plants make a very fine growth, 

 and we usually have good success. 



Mr. E. D. Cowles( S. D.) : I would like to ask whether any- 

 one has ever set raspberries after they have made a growth of 

 five or six inches. I have had the best success after they had 

 made a growth of about six inches. Almost everybody is very 

 busy early in the spring, and that way one gets a little more time 

 to put them in later. I have always had very good success set- 

 ting them in that way. 



Mr. Wright : You can plant the black that way, but I am in- 

 clined to think you would make a failure with the red. 



Mr. R. H. L. Jewett : I can only judge that method by ex- 

 perience. I set out an acre of black raspberries, and they were 

 a failure, and as I did not want to lose the use of the ground for 

 a year I went to work after the red raspberries had grown about 

 six inches and took them up with a spade and planted them, 

 and I never had a finer growth of red raspberries in my life. I 

 am satisfied that if they are properly set they will do well. 



Mr. Wright: It is a great deal of work. 



Mr. Lyons: That is the only objection, it makes a great 

 amount of work. 



Prof. Robertson : Do you prefer wetting the roots to pud- 

 dling them? 



Mr. Wright : I used to try the puddling business, but never 

 had better success than when planting them dry. For the last 

 two years I have put the plants in a furrow and put a blanket 

 over them. When they are put in the furrow I throw a few 

 shovelfuls of dirt over them. I set out three acres last spring, 

 and I defy any one to show a better stand anywhere. 



Mr. Thos. McCuUey : There is not much difficulty in making: 

 them grow in as wet a season as we had this past year, but the 

 question is, how large a per cent will we lose in a dry year? A 

 year ago this last spring I set out five acres of red raspberries, 

 and we had no rain until the second of July. By puddling them 

 and using a pint of water to each plant we had a good stand, 

 while those put in without puddling were almost a failure. I 

 think puddling is the better way, because it packs the ground 

 right around the roots, and if it does not rain at once it leaves 

 some moisture around the roots. 



Mr. Kellogg : Puddling is all right in a dry season, but m a 

 wet season it is a damage. 



