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a course of inch pine siding and battens. On the inside a layer of building 

 paper is tacked to the studding and then a course of inch lumber. The 6-inch 

 space between the two courses of sheathing is filled in with sawdust well packed. 

 Building paper is tacked to the under side of the rafters an inch pine ceiling is 

 put on and the 4-inch space between the roof boards and ceiling is filled in with 

 sawdust. It is ventilated with windows at each end. 



The main points to be kept in view when planning a storage place for our 

 apples are good drainage, good ventilation and security from heat and cold- 

 Here in this climate we are very apt to have in the late fall and also during the 

 winter months warm spells of weather ; and during these warm spells the ven- 

 tilators should be opened at night after the atmosphere has become cool, and 

 kept closed during the daytime. In this way a nearly even temperature can be 

 maintained, not so low, perhaps, as in a costly cold storage plant, but sufificiently 

 low as to meet the requirements of the average fruit grower. — From Transactions 

 of Missouri Horticultural Society. 



YIELDS AND PROFITS OF THE BLACKBERRY. 



^HE year following the planting, there should be a sufficient yield 

 to pay for the cost of the plantation to that time. The third year, 

 the crop should be large, and from that time on, the yield should 

 be nearly uniform, when the seasons are good. I do not know 

 the limit to the profitable age of a blackberry plantation. It is 

 certain that it should continue to bear heavily for twenty years if 

 it has good care, and I am told by careful growers that a patch will last even 

 longer than this. As the plants are generally grown, however, they cannot be 

 expected to hold out this long, for the land becomes hard and foul, and the 

 plants full of dead and diseased wood. 



Blackberries are capable of yielding 200 bushels per acre, year by year, 

 unless very unfavorable seasons intervene. This Station once made an inquiry 

 amongst fifty growers in various parts of the country as to the average yield of 

 blackberries. The lowest return was 40 bushels, the highest over 300 bushels, 

 and the average of the whole fifty was 98 bushels per acre. The prices in this 

 State range from seven to fifteen cents a quart. J. M. Mersereau, of Cayuga, 

 one of our best blackberry growers, recently said to me : " Let me choose the 

 soil, and I will guarantee to clear $200 per acre on blackberries." In our own 

 experience at Ithaca, blackberries have sold the most readily of any of the bush 

 fruits, at prices ranging from eight to fifteen cents per quart. Granville Cowing, 

 Muncie, Indiana, a most successful grower of this fruit, makes me the following 

 statements respecting the profits of it : " The blackberry is probably the most 

 profitable of the small fruits. Owing to its firmness it can be kept much longer 

 m good condition than the strawberry or raspberry, and often brings better 

 prices. The best varieties ar« enormously productive, their cultivation com- 

 paratively easy, and a well kept plantation of them should last a life time." 

 Whilst all these figures and statements are tempting, it must, nevertheless, be 

 said that the blackberry, like all other fruits, yields the golden harvest only to 

 those who work for it, and who think whilst they work.— Cornell B. 99. 



