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pound, $7.50; marketing at one cent per pound, 

 $7.50. This leaves about $75 . to $100 for rent of 

 land, cost of growing, and profits. On the whole, 

 raspberry growing for the purpose of making dried 

 fruit can be recommended with confidence to the gen- 

 eral farmer who is willing to give it careful attention. 



If sold fresh in the market at six cents a quart, 

 the return will be about the same. Accurate figures 

 concerning cost of production are hard to get, and 

 each grower can make his own estimates best. A 

 crop of potatoes can be grown between the rows the 

 year of setting, wliich will usually repay that year's 

 cultivation, exclusive of the cost of plants, while the 

 second year's crop of fruit will do the same, and 

 perhaps more. Plants can be bought at from $6 to 

 $8 per thousand. If set three by six feet, it re- 

 quires 2,420 plants to the acre. If set farther apart 

 than this, the number required is proportionately less. 



There are alw^ays men who are in constant fear of 

 over-production, and who hesitate to undertake enter- 

 prises, because they expect everything to be overdone. 

 To this class of men the amount of dried raspberries 

 which are now sold every year would have seemed im- 

 possible a few years ago, and yet there seems to be no 

 indication that the limit is reached. The product is 

 easier sold now than then, and perhaps the price does 

 not average materially lower. Moreover, since the 

 business has so greatly increased in extent, the insect 

 and fungous enemies have become more prominent, 

 so that more energy and skill are demanded, and 

 as a consequence the careless and floating class of 



