FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. I/I 



A Member: How wide do you let them spread, those nar- 

 row, matted rows? 



Mr. Farnham : After we have filled the bed we cut that 

 row down to six or eight inches by ploughing it down, and 

 then cultivating them out. 



A Member: How far do you live from the salt marsh, and 

 how much of that salt hay do you succeed in getting ? 



Mr. Farnham : I am only from two to three miles from 

 it, and I get a great many tons — fifty or a hundred tons. 



A Member : You own a good deal of salt land ? 



Mr. Farnham : I don't own a foot, but I buy the grass 

 standing. 



President Eddy : The next thing on our program is a 

 ■discussion on raspberries, which will be opened by Mr. Charles 

 I. Allen of Terryville. 



Raspberries and Blackberries. 



Mr. Allen : Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen : The 

 subject assigned to me is raspberries and blackberries. That 

 is a pretty broad subject to cover in a few moments, and I don't 

 propose to cover it in detail at all. I suppose this topic includes 

 the red raspberries and the black and yellow raspberries, and 

 the blueberries and the high-bush blackberries. The cultiva- 

 tion of all of these is the same in many respects ; there are some 

 points of difference. Any land which will raise corn or pota- 

 toes as a rule will raise any of these berries. In selecting the 

 land, I should prefer the more moist land for the black rasp- 

 berries and perhaps next the red raspberries, and for the black- 

 berries I would select the highest and comparatively dry land. 

 The blackberries are liable to winter kill in a cold winter, and 

 they should be planted on high elevations where there is a good 

 frost drainage, where they will pass through the winter without 

 injury to the fruit buds. I set all of these very nearly the 

 same after preparing the land, in rows about five or six feet 

 apart, and I set the plants, the red raspberries about eighteen 

 inches apart, and the black raspberries about three feet apart, 

 and the blackberries about the same distance. The red rasp- 

 berries may be set either in the fall or the spring and the black- 



