No. 7. On the Cultivation of the Raspberry.' — St. George's Ag. Sd'y. 211 



out of the second hole to fill up the first: in 

 this way proceed, until the whole bed is 

 planted, treading the soil lightly around 

 each plant; with the rake, smooth and level 

 the whole, and the work is finished. The 

 rows should be three feet apart, and the 

 plants three feet apart in the rows. 



Winter treatment. — On the approach of 

 cold weather, it will be necessary to protect 

 the plants for the winter. The best method 

 of doing this, is simply to bend the branches 

 down to the ground, and cover them with 

 four or five inches of the soil. Some culti- 

 vators use leaves, and others coarse manure, 

 but we believe nothing answers better than 

 the common soil in which they grow. 



Summer treatment. — As soon as danger 

 of cold weather is over, which is generally 

 the 1st of April, the plants should be unco- 

 vered, and a stake placed to each, to which 

 the stems should be securely tied : the first 

 summer, very little must be expected from 

 the plantation, and only a few suckers will 

 be thrown up from each plant ; but by the 

 second year they will be more numerous, 

 and produce considerable fruit. As soon as 

 the plants are tied up, proceed to level the 

 ground, and give it a neat finish with the 

 rake : the only after culture is to keep down 

 the weeds and the surface loose, by occa- 

 sional hoeings. 



Autumnal dressings. — Enriching the bed 

 at the time of planting, is not sufficient to 

 keep the plants in good condition. The 

 beds should have a dressing of two or three 

 inches of compost every autumn. This 

 should be laid on in October, and lightly 

 forked in, bearing in mind that a mixture of 

 bog earth, or leaf soil and manure, is better 

 for the plants than all manure. This will 

 encourage the growth of the roots, and in 

 the spring, the suckers which are thrown up 

 to form the bearing plants of the next sea- 

 son, will be much stronger. 



Pruning. — The raspberry can hardly be 

 said to need pruning, in the common accepta- 

 tion of that term. All that is required is to 

 shorten the most vigorous bearing stems, 

 and to cut away the old wood after it has 

 produced its fruit. The second summer after 

 planting, the plants will throw up a quan- 

 tity of suckers: if numerous and small, four 

 or five of the best should be left their entire 

 length ; if large and strong, they should be 

 shortened to four or five feet, and the super- 

 fluous ones rooted up, unless Wanted to form 

 new plantations. 



As the raspberry is a rapid grower after 

 it once takes hold of the soil, quantities of 

 suckers will spring up, which, in the course 

 of four or five years, will weaken the plants. 

 On this account new plantations should be 



made every fifth or sixth year, and the soil 

 trenched and renewed by the application of 

 the compost already mentioned. 



The raspberry is rarely attacked by in- 

 sects. On this account, it requires very 

 little eare at the hands of the cultivator. 

 As a market fruit, it is particularly worthy 

 of attention, requiring less care than the 

 strawberry, easier picked, and the finer sorts 

 commanding a good price. — Hovey's Maga- 

 zine. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 St. George's Agricultural Society. 



The St. George's and Appoquimmink hun- 

 dred Agricultural Society, in Newcastle 

 County, Delaware, met at Cantwell's bridge, 

 on the 19th of October last, to attend their 

 annual cattle show, and to have a ploughing 

 match. But owing to the continuance of the 

 drought, the ploughing match was deferred 

 until the 10th of November last — the time 

 for the Society's annual meeting. 



The number of cattle and other stock ex- 

 hibited, was much smaller than that of last 

 year — owing to their bad condition, en ac- 

 count of the drought, which had destroyed 

 the pasture on the upland. There were, 

 however, a number of fine animals pre- 

 sented — and the premiums awarded as fol- 

 lows, viz : 



HORSES. 



To Mr. Andrew Eliason, for the best stal- 

 lion. 



To Dr. C. S. Green, for the best brood 

 mare. 



To Mr. Wm. Cleaver, for the best 2 year 

 old colt. 



CATTLE. 



To Major Jones, for the best native bull, 83. 



To Major Maitland, for the best native 

 cow, 82. 



To Major John Jones, for the best native 

 heifer, (Mayflower,) Land-measurer. 



To General Mansfield, for the best native 

 bull calf", (Captain,) Land-measurer. 



SHEEP. 



To John M. Woods, for the best Leices- 

 ter buck, Blacklock's Treatise on Sheep. 



To James T. Carpenter, for the best Bake- 

 well buck, Farmers' Cabinet, 1 year. 



To John M. Woods, for the best pen of 

 Leicester ewes, (six,) §2. 



SWINE. 



To James T. Carpenter, for Berkshire 

 boar, 8L 



To William Robson, for a sow and five 

 pigs, $2. 



