io8 An American Fruit-Farm 



will act as a rainfall. The Cuthbert, early or late, 

 still holds its own as a red variety; the difference 

 in time of ripening being about ten days, the later 

 Cuthbert being the superior berry. Of black 

 varieties, Kansas and Eureka are later than Con- 

 rath or Palmer. The Marlboro competes with the 

 Cuthbert in favor. Anthracnose, a fungous disease, 

 is the worst enemy of the plant, but may be extermi- 

 nated by spraying with Bordeaux mixture. After 

 seven years the plants seem to get weary of the 

 ground and have passed their maximum production, 

 whence the rule with many growers not to keep a 

 berry patch in one place more than five crops. 

 Dewberries and blackberries require like soil and 

 treatment: the danger as before being that the 

 farmer will neglect the patch and let the canes dry 

 up. There is no remedy for the red rust, save to 

 dig out the diseased canes and burn them. The 

 dewberry is practically exempt from disease, — ^the 

 best variety, the Lucretia. 



Of blackberries, the Snyder, the Wilson, the 

 Taylor. Some farmers plant raspberries, black- 

 berries, or dewberries as a catch crop between the 

 rows of young orchard and run the patch till the 

 orchard begins to bear. The practice is not to be 

 commended. Potatoes, com, beans, carrots, tur- 

 nips, strawberries may be so planted, but never 

 berries borne on canes. The raspberry root is 

 like that of a tree and the plant exhausts the soil 

 over an area of several yards. One cannot raise 

 two spears of grass on the same spot, much less a 



