FRUITS — RASPBERRIES. 7I5 



Spring, and seed the whole to clover. The clover I mow for 

 two years, and then turn under for corn again. The first crop 

 is mown for hay, and the second either pastured or mown for 

 seed. Thus I have a five years' rotation, one year corn, sec- 

 ond potatoes and oats, third wheat, fourth and fifth clover, 

 manuring once only in the five years ; yet the land is constantly 

 improving in fertility. 



FRUITS. 



I have about two acres in orchard, of mixed varieties, but 

 don't think it very profitable here. I have also about a quar- 

 ter of an acre in strawberries, mostly of the Wilson variety, 

 with some Jucunda, Col. Cheney, Sterling, and Capt. Jack. 

 They are set in rows about three feet apart, and in the rows 

 are allowed to run together. In the Fall I cover with straw to 

 protect them from heaving, and do not touch them in the 

 Spring until after fruiting. They will yield from forty to sixty 

 bushels, and are worth about one dollar and a half per bushel 

 here, or one dollar and seventy-five cents to two dollars in 

 Akron. 



RASPBERRIES. 



I have also three-quarters of an acre of raspberries, mostly 

 Doolittle's and Black Caps, which seem to do the best. I 

 have tried the Mammoth Cluster, but they do not endure as 

 long as the Doolittles. They are set in rows six feet apart, and 

 three feet in the row. The new canes are pinched back when 

 they are two feet high, to make the bushes more stocky. They 

 will yield from forty to fifty bushels, and bring in Akron two 

 dollars per bushel. I don't think that there is much profit in 

 raspberries at that price, and at our distance from market. 

 Lawton blackberries pay very well, when they don't Winter 

 kill, which is about every other year. They will bear with 

 but very little cultivation. 



GARDEN. 



As to the garden, I generally sow onions enough to pro- 

 duce thirty to sixty bushels. For them I plow the ground in 

 the Fall, and manure with well rotted manure ; and in the 



