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cultivation and mulching bring the moisture out, preventing 
drouth. 
Mr. Wright: Mr. President, I have something to say on that 
paper. In the preparation of the soil he takes ground 
that is very rich in the first place, and then he manures it. I 
believe timber ground is plenty rich enough to raise raspber- 
ries on without adding any manure. I believe you can get 
ground too rich for raspberries, and you get more wood than 
fruit. I believe in manuring old ground, but not new. 
The President: That is very pertinent to the subject. 
Mr. T. T. Smith: I would like to ask whether raspberries 
will produce fruit on our peat meadows? 
Mr. Spickerman: Ido not think the Cuthbert will do well 
on any soft land. I do not think we should have too deep a soil 
for raspberries. I think there can be such a thing as having 
too deep a soil. 
Mr. Sampson: I would like to hear from Mr. Burch. 
Mr. Burch: I have had a little experience in this line, and I 
would agree with the gentleman who just spoke. I have about 
an acre of raspberries on the kindof ground he mentions, and 
IT have had them there about three years, and I have never had 
a full or a good crop from them, while just a few rods away to 
the south on high land I have had two very nice crops. My 
experience is that the soil does not get hard enough. Sol should 
say it is not well adapted to raising the red raspberries, par- 
ticularly the Cuthbert. 4 
Mr. Kramer: If you want to raise a good crop of any kind 
in our climate, you want to go to work and set the plow 
just as deep as you possibly can. We must not think that when 
we plow we want to make it easy for the horses; if we do that 
we make a mistake. You have got to go to work and set your 
plow as deep as you possibly can. If you cannot do the work 
with one horse, take two, and if you cannot do it with two 
horses take four, but go in just as deep as you can, then you 
get a good foundation, and it is easy for anything you want to 
raise. 
Mr. Spickerman: There is one point in the paper about fer- 
tilizing the land about which I wish to make one remark, and 
that is that coarse stable manure will do more than anything 
else to produce the cane rust, and it finally kills the plant out 
entirely; and we must be very careful about putting on the 
mulching. I tried it with the Marlborough. I thought I would 
make the ground very rich, and the first year I got scarcely 
anything. 
