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PROPAGATING RED RASPBERRIES. 135 
Mr. Brand; How about the Loudon? 
Mr. Wright: My experience is light with the Louden, but the 
showing it has made so far pleases me very much. 
Mr. Kramer: Would you not prefer the young plants just coming 
out of the ground to the ripe wood for planting? 
Mr. Wright: I have never tried the young plants. 
Mr. Kramer: I like the small plants with a large root; they grow 
right along and make good plants. 
Mr. Wright: They do not with me; I always take the largest hill 
and the largest plant. 
Mr.C.L Smith: Do you cut the cane back close to the ground 
when setting? 
Mr. Wright: I cut it back to about six inches. 
Mr. T.T.Smith: You would not set out the red raspberry and 
leave the cane the whole length? 
Mr. Wright: Indeed, I would not. I usually cut them about a 
foot short when I take them up, and then go over afterwards and 
cut them off with a sharp knife to within three to five inches. It is 
easier to set them out, and not much of a job to cut them out after- 
wards. 
Mr Kramer: Do you clean out the old wood right away, or wait 
until spring? 
Mr. Wright: I clean it out just as soon as I can after picking. 
Perhaps [ might tell you about this Loudon planting. In the year 
1896 I bought 100 plants of the Loudon and set them out very care- 
fully, and I lost thirty out of the hundred, which only left me seven- 
ty plants. I got enough young ones to fill out the bed, making it 
perfectly full, containing one hundred plants. Last spring, 1897, I 
saw plants coming up quite thickly. I had only seventy full plants 
to begin with, and this year I took up over 4,000 nice plants trom 
those seventy original plants. I have read that running the culti- 
vator through once or twice in the spring will cut out the roots and 
increase the number of plants. I do not believe that. 
Mr. Kramer: I have set those young plants and set them in the 
spring. Ofcourse, they have to be set in the spring, as you get 
such dry weather in the fall they would not grow. You take them 
up in the spring and plant them right out and cover them up well 
_ and they will grow well and make nice plants. 
Mr. Elliot: How long are your plants coming into full fruiting? 
Mr. Wright: The third year. 
Mr. Elliot: You get a partial crop the second year? 
Mr. Wright: Yes, sir. 
Mr. Elliot: The first year after planting you do not get any fruit? 
Mr. Wright: There is so little of it do not pay much attention 
to it. Itis a hard matter to get pickers to go over them; there is not 
enough fruit to pay me for having it picked. 
Mr Elliot: Have you ever thought of the method of putting three 
plants in a hill and getting a full crop the second year? 
Mr. Wright: I have thought of it, but I do not think the plants 
are large enough to make a full crop, and then you get too many 
roots if there are three or four plants in a hill after they get several 
years old. 
