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careful that uo fruit from any other orchard is left to decay in that 

 vicinity. It is a very good practice to have hogs and sheep in the 

 orchard to eat the fallen fruit. So far as I know that is the only 

 remedy that produces anything like satisfactory results. As you 

 know, the fly which is the parent of this worm punches the skin and 

 inserts the egg under the skin of the fruit. As the fly does not 

 eat the foliage, we cannot deal with it in that way and there is no 

 ■way of reaching the insect as yet. 



SMALL FKl^ITS. 



By S. D. WiLLAED. 



I have raised a lot of red raspberries and had them shipped to 

 Portland and had them go through all in good order. But we 

 found we had to pick pretty hard if there happened to come a wet 

 day. It is no use sending them to Boston if the berries are over- 

 ripe, they will throw them into the river. We lost a great deal and 

 I made up my mind that a man to raise red raspberries must live 

 near a canning factory and pick the berries Saturday and let them 

 have them and work them up sometime between that and Monday. 

 We finally abandoned the red raspberry and took the blackberry. 

 We had complaint that the globules would turn red, and we finally 

 concluded they were too perishable, and I said we will try the 

 gooseberry and the currant. AVe tried the Houghton gooseberry, 

 they are as small as the end on my finger, the young ones didn't 

 like to pick them and were going to strike and all that, so we got 

 the English berries. We were very successful in raising these for 

 some time. We took about $800 in one year in these English 

 gooseberries. Everybody thought we could not raise them 

 and I said, "Now look at them." I never thought the mildew 

 would take me as it did other people. The first I knew the black 

 mildew began to show itself, and it spread here and there. It was 

 bad business. I bought a barrel of sulphur, and said, "Boys, put 

 it on so it will smell-." We put it on so thick that you could smell 

 it out on the road. AYe experimented with one thing and another ; 

 and finally, this last year, we have been using the Bordeaux mixt- 

 ure from the experiment station where they have 230 varieties of 

 the JLnglish gooseberries. They were very successful in the use of 

 the Bordeaux mixture. The best gooseberry is the White Smith. 



