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not cost you over two cents per quart. Try it this year. It is said, 

 "They who know their 6uiy and do it not, shall be beaten with 

 manj- stripes." 



Plant red raspberries in the fall or early spring-, two feet in the 

 rows and the rows seven feet apart. Treat all stickers as weeds. 

 Don't allow more than four or six canes in each hill. It will pay 

 to nuilch Ihe ground between Ihe rows with straw; flax, Ithink,is 

 best 1o keep weeds and suckers down. Don't allow mulch too near 

 Ihe hilln; keep well hoed for six inches around the hills; pinch 

 off the growth when twelve to eighteen inches high and not again 

 until early the next spring and then cvit back to three or four feet. 



Blackcap raspberries plant in spring two ^nd one-half feet in the 

 rows and the rows eight feet apart. Don't cover too deep; pinch 

 back the first year when twelve inches high, the second j^ear when 

 two feet. 



Blackberries can be set in the fall or spring. Set them two and 

 one-half feet in rows and rows eight feet apart; pinch when twelve 

 to eighteen inches high. 



All raspberries and blackberries need winter protection. This is 

 easily and quickly done. Remove the dirt from the side of the hill 

 four inches deep, gather the branches with your arms and pull 

 them over while a second man at the same time plants his fc)ot 

 firmly on the base of the hill and presses hard, slowly bending the 

 bush in the root until nearly flat on the ground, and holding it 

 there until dirt is put on the top sufficient to hold it down. The 

 top of the next hill should rest near the roots of the first. The art 

 of lading down will be easilj' acquired by practice. In early spring, 

 with a fork remove the dirt carefully and lift up the bushes. 



I will here suggest some good varieties to plant. For straw- 

 berries. Crescent and Warfield are among the most prolific when 

 well fertilized. Bederwood stands at the head of all, a per- 

 fect flowering kind, verj' prolific and large and fine, for near mar- 

 kets the best variety known. 



For red raspberries. Turner and Cuthbert, and for blackcaps, Ohio, 

 are good enough. For blackberries, Snj^der, Stone's Hardj' and An- 

 cient Briton are all good. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. P. M. Perry: I will just say a word in regard to the cul- 

 tivation of strawberries. I will suggest to these old fruit 

 growers that if they will plant their strawberries in check 

 rows, the rows four feet apart and the plants eighteen inches in 

 the row, then cultivate both ways, they will save a good deal 

 of work with the hoe. 



Mr. J. A. Sampson: I have tried to find out how to handle 

 strawberries to the best advantage, and my experience has 

 been instead of planting the rows four feet apart, as I have 

 been accustomed to do, that five feet apart is none too far in 

 order to cultivate for the second year's crop. Where we put 

 them four feet apart and have the rows matted, there is not 



