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How THE FARM PAYS. 



for gathering. The bushes should be carefully tied to the stakes. 

 Of the varieties, that known as Wilson's Early comes in a week before 

 any of the others. It is a deep black, large and of excellent quality r 

 being destitute of that hard centre so peculiar to wild sorts. The 

 Kittatinny comes next in succession. It is an immensely large berry 

 of fine flavor, of a deep shining black color one of the very best. It 

 is somewhat given to rust, which may be checked by removing all 

 the rusted young shoots as they appear. The next is the old Lawton 

 variety, which is hardly as good as either of the others, but has the 

 merit of coming in after they are nearly done fruiting. Any one 

 growing strawberries to supply a local demand must of necessity 

 have such fruits as blackberries to succeed them, as the season ad- 

 vances, and in most localities they will be found equally profitable as 

 strawberries, although perhaps for local demand they could not be 

 sold in as large quantities. 



RASPBERRIES. 



The culture of the raspberry is almost identical with that of the 

 blackberry, except that they may be planted one-third closer, and that 

 in some sections the raspberry is not quite so hardy, and it is better 



to take the precaution of laying the shoots down close to the ground 

 in the fall, being careful not to break them, and covering them up 

 with corn stalks, straw, leaves or litter. This should not be done, 

 however, until the weather is quite cold, say, in the latitude of New 



