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pated that a little by my statements concerning full baskets, 

 and I believe the last handful one puts in the basket often 

 times is the most profitable handful. I believe it pays best, 

 and any sort of a carrier which allows you to carry only one 

 tier and display the whole crate, I believe is a valuable 

 thing, and it is especially valuable to you who are getting 

 very close to a fine trade. You feel so, don't you, Mr. 

 Jenks ? 



MR. JENKS : Yes. 



MR. HITTINGER: Are those pint baskets? 



MR. SMITH : Yes. 



MR. HITTINGER : You spoke of cutting the cane when 

 you set out the young plant. You meant the old cane? 



i\IR. SMITH : Yes. We use a little piece of old cane as 

 n. handle, and when cultivating it acts as a marker for the 

 rows in the field. It is all right to let it remain until you 

 get the new, live growth, but as soon as this growth begins, 

 I believe most emphatically you ought to get rid of the old 

 cane, because you draw the energy from the young shoots 

 now commencing to break ground. 



MR. HITTINGER: Do you cut it right back to the soilt 



MR. SMITH : Yes. 



MR. TUTTLE : In cutting back the old cane, about how 

 much do you usually leave? Prune it as low as possible? 



MR. SMITH : Yes, cut in as close as you can conven- 

 iently. This is desirable since it will facilitate spring hoe^ 

 ing. A raspberry plantation can be very profitably hoed 

 early in the spring. It is a proper time to overcome all 

 weeds which have established themselves late in the previ- 

 ous season after cultivation ceased. 



MR. JENKS : What could you afford to market a pint of 

 red raspberries for at a profit? 



MR. SMITH : I wish Mr. Clarke would answer that. 



MR. CLARKE : That is a hard question. 



THE PRESIDENT : That is the reason why he turned it 

 over to you. 



]\IR. CLARKE : It depends entirely on how many rasp- 



