72 One Thousand Questions in Agriculture 



Cuthbert. There are very few of these berries dried. It would be 

 better to dry them in an evaporator than in the sun, but little of it 

 is done in this State.- It is doubtful whether it would pay to plant 

 blackberries for drying only, because there is such a large product 

 now in various places where the berries are either sold fresh or sold 

 to the cannery, and drying is only done for the purpose of saving 

 the crop if the prices for the other uses are not satisfactory. To 

 grow especially for drying would give you only one chance of selling 

 to advantage, and that the poorest. 



Planting Bush Fruits. 



What is the best time to set out blackberries and Loganberries? 



Any time after the soil is thoroughly wet down and you can 

 get good, mature and dormant plants for transplanting. This may 

 be as early as November and may continue until February or later 

 in some places. 



Growing Strawberry Plants. 



In a patch of strawberries planted this spring, is it advisable to cut 

 off runners or root some of them? 



In planting strawberries in matted rows, it is usual to allow a 

 few runners to take root and thus fill the row. It is the judgment 

 of plant growers that plants for sale should not be produced in this 

 way, but should be grown from plants specially kept for that purpose. 



Strawberries in Succession. 



Is there any reason, in strawberry culture, when the vines are re- 

 moved at the end of the fourth year, why the ground may not bs 

 thoroughly plowed and again planted to strawberries? 



It is theoretically possible to grow strawberries continuously on 

 the same land by proper fertilization and irrigation. Practically, the 

 objection is that certain diseases and injurious insects may multiply 

 in the land, and this is the chief reason why new plantations are put 

 on new land and the old land used for a time for beans or some root 

 crop, so that the soil may be cleaned and refreshed by rotation and 

 by the possibility of deeper tillage. 



Limitations on Gooseberries. 



Why is it that gooseberries are not grown more in California? Is 

 there any reason, climatic or other, zvhy the gooseberry should not be 

 as successfully grown in California as elsezvhere? 



There are two reasons. First, the gooseberry does not like 

 interior valleys, although with proper protection from mildew or by 

 growing resistant varieties, good fruit can be had in coast or moun- 

 tain valleys. Second, practically no one cares for a ripe gooseberry 

 in a country where so many other fruits are grown, and the demand 

 is for green gooseberries for pies and sauce, and that is very easily 

 oversupplied. 



