Xo. 4.] SMALL FRUITS AND BERRIES. 117 



Question. Perhaps the reason is that he changed his 

 strawberry patch to another location ? 



Mr. Wheeler. Perhaps so, yes. 



Mr. Foster. Is there a commercially successful raspberry 

 that can grow on hills, so that you can cultivate it in the 

 eheok-row system ? 



Mr. Wheeler. Yes, it has been done in places very suc- 

 cessfully. It is easier to take care of the raspberry when 

 grown that way than any other way. You can cultivate both 

 ways, and by keeping the suckers off so that they don't run 

 out to the sides, you can do very well. It takes a lot of land, 

 that is the great objection. 



Mr. Kelly. Would it be a good plan to plant small 

 fruits in a young apple or cherry orchard ? 



Mr. Wheeler. I- think so, for a few years, any^vay, but 

 not for more than four or five years at the most. You must, 

 however, fertilize heavily enough and spray sufficiently to 

 meet the needs of both crops. 



Mr. BowEX. What would you consider a good application 

 of fertilizer and manure when you had currants and rasp- 

 berries among apple trees on land that had been cultivated 

 before the trees were put in ? 



Mr. Wheeler. Mr. Marshall in fertilizing his apple trees 

 gives a pound of fertilizing mixture, — bone and high-grade 

 sulfate of potash and slag, — a pound a year for the trees, 

 that is, for trees of one year he gives a pound, and if two 

 years old, two pounds, and for three, three pounds, and so on. 

 And for small-fruit crops he found he could easily put on 

 20 cords of manure to the acre and supplement that with a 

 fair amount — say 1,000 pounds — of good, mixed fertilizer, 

 like bone, slag and potash. The larger amount of manure 

 you get on the land the better it will be, with the possible 

 exception of raspberries, where an excess of manure might 

 grow soft canes. 



Question. I have had those black bugs on the apple trees 

 this last summer. Do I understand you to say that Scale- 

 cide for fall, and lime and sulfur for s^^ring, spraying, is 

 right ? 



