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Mr. Race : It was so late that those plants can't renew them- 

 selves. They will die — you can set that down as a fact. Take 

 an old plant that has raised one crop, and right round that plant 

 come a number of runners, and they put out roots outside. 

 They are weaker, the old plant has exhausted a good deal of 

 the fertilizer ; unless they get strong, you won't have any fruit. 

 If they bear in September, it stands to reason that they can't 

 produce any more plants, and they won't bear again. 



President Gulley : We will now listen to an address on 

 another phase of the small fruit question — Raspberries and 

 Blackberries — by ]\Ir. J. T. Molumphy, one of our own growers. 



Field Culture of Raspberries and Blachberries. 



By J. T. Molumphy, Berlin. 



I would select land fit to produce a good crop of corn or 

 potatoes, and after ploughing and harrowing thoroughly, mark 

 out with a common marker rows 3 J -2 feet apart, then set the 

 plants 2j/2 feet apart in every second row, utilizing the space 

 between the berr}^ rows for potatoes, corn, or any general hoed 

 crop the first year. Fertilize soon after setting the plants by 

 distributing 800 lbs. or so of a good complete fertilizer to the 

 acre along both sides of each row where it will be well mixed 

 and worked into the soil when the plants are cultivated. The 

 second year at least a ton to the acre should be applied in the 

 same way, and this should be repeated annually as long as the 

 field continues in profitable bearing. It rarely pays to continue 

 a block of black caps for more than three or four crops, as 

 either anthracnose, crown gall, or orange rust, and frequently 

 all three diseases, are likely to get a foothold after that and will 

 spread with great rapidity. Immediately after picking the last 

 crop the bushes should be cut and burned and the land plowed 

 and utilized for the growing of anything desired that can be 

 put in at that time of the year, July 20 to 25 usually. 



Cultivation is nearly all done by horse power, and consists 

 of frequently stirring the soil up till picking time, using a one- 

 horse plow early in the spring" and an iron frame cultivator of 

 the Planet Junior type afterwards. 



