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work is well done. If the berries have to be sorted, half tickets. 

 Careless injur}- to the canes should be punished by discharge. The 

 tickets should be cashed at night. Nothing has so good an effect 

 upon employees as prompt, cheerful payment. 



When your blackberries come into market, there are usuall}' 

 more or less wild ones; also pears, plums, peaches, &c., &c., 

 in competition with your fruit, and when we consider that 

 blackberries are comparative!}' perishable, it is seen that a near 

 market is almost indispensable. I would not advise any one to 

 attempt to raise them lor sale who lived many miles from a city, 

 unless they could avail themselves of rapid transit by rail. And 

 even then there must be a special arrangement with some market 

 man. 



RASPBERRIES. 



The cultivated raspberry, under proper conditions, is eas}" to be 

 raised and is prolific. With me it is the most profitable of berries. 

 I have one row six rods in length from which I have sold ^70 worth 

 in four years. They have the advantage over the blackberry in this 

 way : the}' come into maiket just as the strawberry is going out and 

 before other fruits are plentiful. They are preferable to the native 

 berry in several respects. They are firm and good keepers. They 

 may be picked before they are quite ripe and will ripen up in the 

 baskets. They will not crush together, neither will they drip juice 

 from the basket. They are free from maggots and spice bugs. It 

 is asserted by some wise men that an insect has precisely the same 

 flavor as what he feeds on, but one taste of a spice bug will refute 

 that theory most effectually and emphatically. 



Kaspberries flourish best for me on a clay loam soil where there is 

 good natural drainage. A stiff soil prevents the new canes from 

 getting a good start in the spring. A location somewhat in the shade 

 for a part of the day is advantageous. It is ray opinion that those 

 bushes which are fully exposed to the burning sun are more likely 

 to rust. This is a disease of which I know but little. I have 

 never had it injure my bushes except in one instance, to any extent. 

 This was the last season, and as they were entirely without shade, I 

 attributed it to that fact. I have had small patches in the garden 

 affected, but of this I shall speak under another head. I consider a 

 well-cultivated orchard to be a favorable place, as to shade — planted 

 between the rows of apple trees. I think in open field cultui'e that 



