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est way, while not always the best way is, for the man look- 

 ing for the dollar that is in it, the course a good many of us 

 are apt to pursue. 



A MEMBER: I would like to inquire what varieties 

 you raise. 



ME. WHITCOMB: I think there is but one variety of 

 raspberries. We have always raised the Cuthbert. We have 

 tried the Loudon and several other kinds, but with us the 

 Cuthbert has been the only berry that has had merit enough. 

 Of course, I have l)een in it so long that I am prejudiced. 

 Probal)ly other berries have come along in the last few years 

 that have more merit than the Cuthbert. 



A MEMBER: Do you spray your raspberries at all! 



MR. WHITCOiMB : No. sir. 



A ^MEMBER; Does the raspberry row bother about 

 spraying the apple treest 



MR. WHITCOIMB : No ; we find that we can manage to 

 got through where they are set eight feet wide. We can 

 drive between our raspberry rows. Of course, they bother, 

 hut if they are netting 5^150 an acre, we can afford to be 

 bothered a little. 



On the last piece we set the trees 40 feet apart. Then 

 set the double fillers, and another filler in between, 20 feet, 

 so we only set in that case one row, and set the raspberries 

 10 feet from the trees, but in our first plants we set them 

 eight feet, and while, they did bother, we had no great trou- 

 ble in going betAveen. I always used to tell the men when 

 they went to spray or cultivate remember when they came 

 into the field, that we set the trees there first. That was to 

 be the first care, to look out for the trees, and if they had 

 to run over anything, to run over the raspberries. We have 

 lost very few from damage. At the end of the rows we 

 have to turn, and run down a few vines, but we ahvays get 

 too many anyway. I think they should be thinned a lot, 

 four good canes to the foot is enough. I probably never had 

 a field but what averaged six. but couldn't get myself to cut 

 them thin enouQ-h. 



