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can be very easily put into condition for seeding early 

 in August and next season will yield a large crop of hay. 



The new bed or field must be watched and weeds be 

 kept out. If not growing satisfactorily scatter a little 

 fertilizer along the rows and rake or cultivate it in. 

 Runners should be placed where wanted or cut off if the 

 plants are to be kept in hills. Raspberries and black- 

 berries are fruiting and the soil should be stirred fre- 

 quently among the rows to keep in the moisture, with- 

 out which the berries will be small and few. All canes 

 coming up between the hills or in the rows should be 

 treated as weeds and be cut off or pulled up. If canes 

 are falling on the ground with the weight of fruit or 

 foliage, loosen the wires, place them over in the middle 

 of the rows and then draw taut again, which will bring 

 the canes up straight and close together. (Fig. 72.) 

 The fruiting canes of grapevines should be girdled 

 about July ist to hasten ripening at the North; at 

 the South this is not needed. For shipping grapes this 

 is not desirable, as the skin is more tender and the 

 berries more easily crushed. 



Poultry. At this time of the year poultry can be 

 given a liberal supply of green food from the garden, 

 or may obtain a large amount of this food from the pas- 

 tures and fields, in the ranges among blackberry and 

 raspberry bushes, or in the asparagus field. All cock- 

 erels except those to be saved for breeding should be 

 marketed as soon as they are in good condition, and to 

 this end should be separated from the pullets and fed 

 fattening foods. There is much danger of neglecting the 

 houses, roosts, and nests at this season of the year, yet 

 even more care need be. given, for during hot weather 

 vermin grow more rapidly than during the winter. 

 Whitewash the walls and roosts with lime and kerosene 

 at least every month. 



