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berries also, but the black raspberries should be set only in the 

 spring, and the earlier they are set the better. There are num- 

 berless varieties of the red and black raspberries, but in my own 

 use I have found only one or two of each that are profitable at 

 all. In the red raspberries the Cuthbert seems to be the only 

 one that does well, and the Golden Queen is simply a yellow 

 Cuthbert. But one objection to the Cuthbert is they are quite 

 late in ripening, and of late years they have proved not hardy 

 and disease has attacked them, which has practically driven the 

 Cuthbert more or less out of the market. I have tried quite a 

 number of the early varieties of the red raspberries — Thomp- 

 son, Miller, and some others — and got a few pickings of very 

 early ones, and that was the end of it. They were small after 

 the first pickings, and the "pickers wouldn't pick them and the 

 markets didn't want them, but the best red raspberry is the 

 Phoenix ; that is not only early but it is also late. We begin 

 picking about the last days of June, and pick clear up to the 

 middle of August on the same variety. It is good size from the 

 beginning to the end of the season, bright color, does not crum- 

 ble and sells well. These should be marketed in pint baskets, 

 as they stand up much better, and you can get almost as much 

 for a pint as you can for a quart basket. As to the black rasp- 

 berries, about the only variety I am raising is the Kansas. I 

 have tried the Cumberland ; it is said to be much larger than 

 the Kansas, but it has been inferior with me. It is claimed if 

 you plant the Kansas and Cumberland side by side, the Cum- 

 berland will prove the best, but on my soil it is no use at all : 

 it is unhealthy. I am looking for something later than the 

 Kansas to extend the season, and the only thing I have found 

 is the Munger, but I have had only indififerent experience with 

 this up to the present time. In blackberries the dewberry or the 

 running blackberry is the first to ripen, but there don't prove 

 hardy with me unless they are covered during winter, and it 

 is necessary to cover them with soil; I have tried covering 

 them with stable manure but that didn't protect them, and I 

 have only succeeded in getting a crop when they were covered 

 with the soil. I don't know as that is of any benefit to us ex- 

 cept in this way, that if we are raising very many high bush 

 blackberries, if we can raise a limited quantity of the dewber- 

 ries we could open the season much earlier and secure the mar- 



