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for the cost of growing, including rent of land, fertilizer, 

 planting, care, oversight and other overhead charges, 

 and profits. To the man with a taste for this kind of work 

 whose soil, site and climate are favorable, the growing 

 of black raspberries for evaporating purposes can be rec- 

 ommended with confidence. Especially is this true for 

 the man who does not have a good local market and is so 

 situated that he cannot easily secure pickers for other 

 lines of small-fruit growing. 



A price of twenty cents a pound for the dried product 

 will be equivalent to about six cents a quart fresh. Ac- 

 curate figures concerning cost of production are hard to 

 secure, and each grower can make his own estimates best. 

 A crop of potatoes can be grown between the rows the year 

 of setting, which 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 $6 to $8 a thousand. If set three by six feet, 

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

 than this, the number required is proportionately less. 



The fear of over-production discourages some persons 

 from undertaking work of this kind. The raspberry in- 

 dustry does not differ from other lines of farm enterprise 

 in this regard. So long as human nature remains the 

 same, fluctuations in product and prices may be expected 

 to continue, whether the product be potatoes, cows, wheat 

 or raspberries. While evaporated raspberries do not 

 rank as a high grade product and are not in as great de- 

 mand as many other articles of food, the total consump- 

 tion is still large. The individual grower need have little 

 fear of not finding a market for his output. 



