BUSH FRUIT PRODUCTION 



stock officially certified to be disease-free, or 

 practically so. Most of the leading raspberry- 

 growing states now have an organized inspec- 

 tion service and plants which have been 

 examined by authorized agents of the state 

 are available to those :who take the trouble to 

 locate them. 



Lists of nurserymen who have disease-free 

 plants are compiled each year and may be 

 secured from the Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 United States Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C, or from state experiment 

 stations which work with small fruits, like 

 those of Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, 

 and New York. 



Taking up Dormant Suckers 



Only the most vigorous and healthy suckers 

 should be transplanted. Many of the younger 

 plants far out between the rows will live and 

 grow but it is easy to lose a year in getting a 

 new plantation started and weak plants are an 

 unnecessary handicap. 



Care should be taken to secure a piece of 

 the parent root with each plant. The sucker 

 usually has developed a few fibrous roots of 

 its own but not enough to give it the right 

 start. When the sucker is pulled up it almost 

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