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leaves fall, up to March 1st. Summer pruning or pinching is prac- 

 tised to force the growth where desired, i. e., into the fruiting canes 

 and into the new canes that are being grown for the next season's 

 fruit, and no surpkis canes should be grown that must be cut and 

 thrown away at the end of the season. 



Raspherry and Blackherry . The fruiting canes of these fruits 

 should be cut out as soon as the crop has been harvested, tliat all 

 growth may go into the new canes that are to produce fruit the next 

 seasouy Such new canes as are to be preserved for next season's 

 fruiting should have the end taken off when they reach tliree feet in 

 height and all weak canes and those not needed to make a well 

 stocked field should be treated as weeds and be hoed or pulled up. 



Currants and Gooseberries. An annual pruning is generally given 

 these fruits, cutting out all wood over three years old, keeping the 

 bushes in a compact, stocky condition that will hokl the fruit up 

 from the ground where it will not be spattered by the soil during 

 heavy rains, and leaving a limited amount of strong wood two and 

 three years old which produces larger fruit than will grow on old 

 canes. All canes looking sickly, which generally indicates a borer 

 in them, should be cut out and burned as soon as discovered. 



SPRAYING CALENDAR FOR 1900. 



In Bulletins Nos. 52 and GO a full discussion was given of the 

 various insecticides and fuugicides most useful for the protection of 

 fruits and garden crops from insect and fungous pests, and their 

 preparation and most economical application, therefore in this num- 

 ber only the spraying calendar, slightly modified in A'iew of the 

 results of the past seasons, is presented. 



