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peach is good, Wager, Allen, Foster, 

 etc. By planting these varieties 

 besides the Crawford, the season can 

 be greatly extended. The Crawford, 

 however, is best in flavor. Of cur- 

 rants, the Dutch is highest flavored 

 and best for canning. He pays 4^ 

 to 5 cents a pound in the average. 

 Regarding the 



DISPOSAL OF FRUIT 



to the best advantage, the following 

 remarks of Mr. J. N. Stearns are 

 worth (juoting: 



" I received in Chicago lti3 a keg 

 for my pears the past season, a keg 

 holding a trifle over one bushel. For 

 the past two or three years, how- 

 ever, this market has been so flooded 

 with almost worthless fruit that 

 growers are beginning to be discour- 

 aged, and so we have the quer\' : 

 ' What shall we do with our fruit ? ' 



" As one of the means of securing 

 this trade, I sent small consignments 

 of fruit to reliable dealers in small 

 towns with my card, guaranteeing the 

 fruit select, placed in each package. 

 I find plenty of consumers who pre- 

 fer to purchase of the producer at an 

 advanced price, expecting of course 

 to get what they pay for. It should 

 be remembered that fair treatment 

 will hold a customer. 



" I have been engaged in fruit 

 growing as a business for many 

 years, and never with more satisfac- 

 tion to myself than at the present 

 time. I find the demand fully keeps 

 pace with the increased production." 



PINCHING BACK THE CUTHBKRT CANHS_ 



A writer in the Country Geiitlcinnii 

 says : 



" I have just finished trimming a 

 row of Cuthbert raspberry bushes 

 which, partly at Mr. C. Mill's sug- 

 gestion last year, I left untouched 

 until now. There is a decided con- 

 trast in appearance between it and 

 the rows pruned according to the 

 method I practice, namely, pinching 

 the new canes before they reach 

 three feet in height, and shortening 



the laterals to nine or ten inches 

 when clearing out the old wood, 

 which is done as soon as it is con- 

 venient after the berries have been 

 picked. The Autumn-trimmed canes 

 resemble bushes with six or seven 

 short, well-seasoned branches of the 

 size of a lead pencil ; the Spring- 

 pruned ones are simply bare poles. 

 I have counted the buds on half a 

 dozen canes of each kind of pruning, 

 and the bushy ones average sixty- 

 three buds, or five to seven laterals 

 to a cane, while those without later- 

 als average eighteen. With the 

 exception of just the tips of a few 

 late-growing, unpinched laterals, no 

 injury was done by frost, and as to- 

 winter-killing generally I do not 

 think either way of pruning has an 

 advantage, certainly not in this sec- 

 tion. The canes on which the buds 

 were counted are marked with tags, 

 and I shall weigh or measure the 

 fruit on each to satisfy myself which 

 plan is best. Pinching the canes 

 when young I think has a tendency 

 to produce laterals at the head, mak- 

 ing the bushes top-heavy when 

 loaded with fruit, and consequently 

 more liable to be blown or beaten 

 down by severe storms, as was the 

 case on July loth last year; but 

 where properly supported or fast- 

 ened to a wire the berries are out of 

 danger of being covered with dirt or 

 grit during heavy rains. 



" Each succeeding year that I 

 grow the Cuthbert only increases 

 my liking for it, and did it ripen ten 

 or twelve days earlier I should con- 

 sider it the most reliable and profit- 

 able red raspberry grown." 



HOW TO MAKK THF ORCHARD PAY. 



Dr. Hoskins writes in Vick's 

 Monthly as follows : 



" I have never yet seen an orchartl 

 too rich for profit, or one upon which 

 the last load of manure did not pay 

 the most profit. .\n orchard of the 

 Williams' Favorite .Apple in the 

 vicinity of Boston is kept ' as rich as 



