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The Canadian Horticulturis. 



BLACK RASPBERRIES AS A FARM MARKET CROP. 



N a recent bulletin from the Cornell Experiment 

 Station, there is a very interesting discussion of 

 the subject of growing black raspberries on 

 farms where they may readily be evaporated, and the 

 5j product sold at a fair price. The author, Mr. Fred. 

 #• Card, refers to some important points in connection 

 with the work, as follows : 

 Berry Harvester. — The advent of the berry harvester makes it 

 possible to conduct berry farming in remote locations. With- 

 out this implement, the evaporator is just as dependent on location as the 

 grower who sells fresh fruit, for it is on'y in the vicinity of towns of considerable 

 size that pickers can be secured in sufficient numbers to make a safe business in 

 small-fruit growing. 



Varieties. — The variety chiefly grown for evaporating purposes throughout 

 the great evaporating sections of Central and Western New York is the Ohio, yet 

 it is by no means certain that this is the best. With a few of our best growers, 

 the Gregg is coming to supplant the Ohio, and where it proves to be hardy, it is 

 a more desirable variety to grow, especially if picking by hand is practiced, for 



Fig. 418. — Berry Harvester. 



the large, firm berries are much preferred by pickers. They adhere to the 

 bushes more firmly than most other varieties, and some growers do not find it 

 satisfactory to gather them with the harvester ; others, however, do gather them 

 successfully in that way. The variety does not prove so universally hardy and 

 satisfactory as the Ohio. 



