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At six cents per pound or eight cents per quart, they 

 should prove a satisfactory crop. Canning factories 

 use them in large quantities at about four cents 

 per pound, and they weigh about forty pounds per 

 bushel, making the equivalent of $1.60 per bushel. 

 This, with a convenient location and good culture, to 

 insure a yield of not less than one hundred bushels 

 per acre, will yield a fair return, provided pickers 

 are readily obtainable in sufficient numbers, so that 

 enough can be grown to make it an object. 



BLACK CURRANTS 



The treatment of the black currant does not differ 

 materially from that of the red. The bushes grow a 

 little taller, and may require a little more room. This 

 can be easily given under ordinary circumstances, for 

 in most localities one bush will supply the demand 

 of the whole community. A convenient method of 

 pruning the black currant is quoted from the Garden 

 by the Canadian Horticulturist, 1896, page 198. It 

 consists in cutting out the bearing branches when the 

 fruit is ripe, carrying them to a shady place and there 

 picking the fruit at ease. The annual renewing thus 

 given is said to produce well-ripened wood and fine 

 fruit, since fruit borne on old wood is much inferior. 



Notwithstanding the lack of popularity of the black 

 currant in America, we might do well to cultivate it 

 more than we do. It undoubtedly possesses more 

 value than we accord to it. It is stated by Prof. 



