HIGHT] STRAWBERRIES AND THEIR KIN 
the intermediate poles, and then draw your new 
canes up between the wires, where they will be held 
firm, and not broken down by winter snow. You 
are ready next for clipping the tops of the canes — 
down to about four or five feet. You are now pre- 
pared for winter — unless your land lies so that fall 
plowing will be advisable. On hillsides, of course, 
you will not do fall plowing, for you will suffer too 
great loss by wash of winter and spring floods. If 
the ground lie level, by all means plow in October, 
throwing the dirt toward the plants. 
In the spring you will begin again with your 
plow, thoroughly working the soil and then run- 
ning your cultivator to level it. After this you will 
run the cultivator until close after picking season. 
However small your berry lot, I advise you to work 
it with plow and cultivator. The cultivator is of 
more value than all irrigating systems. It is even 
better than frequent showers. Keep it running, 
wherever you can, all summer. . 
The best varieties of red raspberries for planting, 
either in large fields or in small, are the Cuthbert 
and Golden Queen, and Shaffer’s Colossal. The 
Cuthbert made a revolution in raspberry growing, 
making it possible to grow three times as many 
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