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June, were loaded with fine berries, while older canes 

 alongside had but few. Although such canes are later 

 it does not necessarily follow that they are immature. 

 Starting later, when the conditions do not favor so 

 vigorous a growth, it is altogether probable that the 

 wood is firmer and its vitality greater at the beginning 

 of winter than that of the earlier canes. 



YIELDS 



The yield of red raspberries is less, as a rule, than 

 that of any other member of the genus, unless it be the 

 dewberries, the yield of which is more or less a question 

 of locality. The average yield of reds, as derived from 

 the replies of fifty -six growers, is about sixty -nine 

 bushels per acre. A few growers place the estimated 

 yield higher than that of black -caps, but this is excep- 

 tional. Moreover, this smaller yield is distributed over 

 a longer ripening period, and is for that reason more 

 ^pensive to gather and market, so that the reds ought 

 always to bring one or two cents more per quart than 

 the black-caps, in order to prove equally profitable. 

 There can be no doubt that the average yield can be 

 largely increased by good care and bj^ abandoning the 

 plantations sooner, for it is the old fields which give 

 the poor returns. 



NORMAL PROFITS 



Red raspberries are nearly always in good demand. 

 The grower who lives near a small town, where there 

 is not too much competition, and who can depend 



