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pinching them back, anyway. 



THE CHAIRMAN: The question has been asked, what 

 i)bout heading back in early spring. Can you answer that, 

 .Mr Palmer? 



]\IR. PAL:\IER : The way we have found it is this, the 

 iirst two years they are in bearing, we do not cut them back 

 at all. and the reason for it is not that we do not think they 

 will do better if they are cut back, but with us the price we 

 got for our berries depends largely on the season they be- 

 come ripe. AVe start about the 10th of June, and for the 

 first week or ten days our prices are generally around 12c, 

 or 15c. a pint in large c^uantities on the farm, and by not 

 cutting back and letting them grow about 7 or 8 feet high, 

 they will bend over so they can be picked, and of course, as 

 anyone knows the first berries will come where they are not 

 cut back. We take those berries at 15c. a pint, and think 

 by doing so that we lose a few of the later berries, worth 

 about 7c. a pint. However, when the hill gets over 2 years 

 old we find that it is better to head them back. AVe head 

 them back to al)out 6 feet, and this variety, Perfection, will 

 ihrow out about 80 arms, perhaps a foot or 18 inches long 

 from the top of the stack up, but that is our method. 



A MEMBER: AVhat have been found to be the best 

 varieties of black caps? 



AIR. AIKEN: I'here is a difference of opinion as to that. 

 Commercially, I think the Palmer and Cumberland. Per- 

 haps, the Gregg is very well for home use. I think it is bet- 

 ter than the Kansas. I do not find the Kansas all that is 

 claimed for it. The Black Diamond is the sweetest. 



AIR. DAA^ENPORT: I would like to know what you 

 consider the cause of winter killing of red raspberries. 



AIR. AIKEN: I think probably three-quarters of the 

 cases is lack of air drainage and then the other quarter is 

 water standing on the ground. 



AIR. DAA^ENPORT : Do you not consider then that 

 canes growing late in the fall would have a tendency toward 

 winter killing? 



