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berries come in carload lots and supply this market in ample 

 quantity, and later there seems to be a fair supply coming in 

 from local sources. The average cities and large towns fur- 

 liish us our very best market today, augmented by the mon; 

 direct mountain and shore hotel trade. 



For several years we supplied a wholesale trade in a 

 town of 5000 inhabitants and was surprised to see how much 

 this trade could be built up by supplying good fruit regular- 

 ly. Again, we had occasion to use this market heavily for 

 a Satuivlay trade. It was impossible to pick fruit on Satur- 

 day morning and ship it to our regular market, which was 

 15 miles away, and get it there in time for the Saturday re- 

 tail trade. The fruit would have been lost had we not been 

 Tvble to resort to a special trade. We found that the house- 

 wife would take their berries in quantities of a crate and 

 can them on Saturday, since most housewives plan to keep 

 a fire on Saturday for the regular cooking. 



And now let us consider the handling of this valuable 

 raspberry crop a little more by season. At the outset let 

 me urge you to practice spring planting. We have already 

 described our plan for securing good plants. One needs 

 to know his variety well when trying to determine the pro- 

 per distance between rows. I believe varieties as dwarf as 

 Ruby can be planted as closely as 5 feet apart. On the 

 other hand, I have seen Cuthberts. in heavy soil, which ap- 

 peared to need as much as 8 feet between rows. After a 

 field has been properly plowed and fitted it should be 

 marked out with a marker similar to the ones used by 

 vegetable gardeners. If you have it arranged so that the 

 pins in the head of the marker can be shifted, you will find 

 this an advantage. Since every effort should be made to 

 establish a heavy hedge-row as early as possible, I believe 

 the plants should be planted as near as 18 inches apart in 

 the furrow. If this is followed, your hedge-row will usually 

 be quite well established before the end of the second sea- 

 son. If proper attention has been given to the planting, 

 the grower need have but little concern for this plantation 



