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four to five quarts each. My whole patch, taking the lighter hills with the 

 heavier, averaged three quarts per hill. 



There is no reason why the cultivation of raspberries should not be a pro- 

 fitable business if conducted as part of the work on a farm. A piece of land 

 200 feet square, somewhat less than an acre, would contain 2,500 hills. At an 

 average of three quarts to the hill, there would be 7,500 quarts, which at 10 

 cents per (}uart, a fair average price during the past season, would amount to 

 $750. It costs no more to pick them than it does to pick strawberries, the 

 season of picking lasts no longer than a month, the care and cultivation occupy 

 much less time than strawberries, and are consequently much less expensive. 

 For actual profit, I had rather have two acres of well cultivated red raspberries 

 than a thirty-acre farm stocked with ten milch cows. — Country Gentleman. 



Feeding the Orchard. — I contend, says Professor Roberts (i) that the 

 soil should be cultivated and plant food set free to the uttermost limit ; (2) that 

 leguminous and tap-rooted plants should be used as plant-food gatherers ; (3) 

 that animals should be kept as much for the value of the manure they produce 

 as for the profit realized from them otherwise ; (4) that the least possible amount 

 of stalk and vine and limb consistent with economy and the health of the plant 

 be grown ; and (5) after having practiced all the economy possible, if there is 

 still a lack of fertility, in order to secure the highest quality of product and the 

 greatest net income, that commercial fertilizers of a high grade should be applied 

 with a liberal hand. If it is found at any time that commercial fertilizers give 

 better net results than farm manures, then there should be no hesitancy in 

 changing from one to the other. I believe that farm manures which have lain 

 in the open yards or have been heated, and which have been drawn long dis- 

 tances, are far more expensive than are high grade fertilizers. Stable manure 

 exposed in piles from April to October often loses half its value ; therefore, I 

 am led to believe that many tons of manure which are transported from the city 

 contain less than a dollar's worth of soluble plant-food. This may act benefici- 

 ally as a mulch, but so far as the plant-food it contains is concerned, it is too 

 often an expensive way of preserving the fertility of the land. 



Amongf the peaches. Mountain Rose, Oldmixon Free, Moore's Favorite* 

 Stump, Crawford's Late, Late Rareripe come in from the earliest to the latest. 

 About, or just as good, are Hance's Golden, Crawford's Early, Chair's Choice, 

 Brandywine, Red Rareripe, Globe, Fox's Seedling (one of the hardiest). Among 

 the extra-sized peaches are Reeve's Favorite, Mary's Choice (probably one and 

 the same peach re-named) ; Susquehanna is one of the largest. The above are 

 all freestones. Enough clings come from California to supply the market for 

 that class. They keep better than freestones. — R. N. \ . 



