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Mr. Peters. — How long do you keep them in the same crop ? 



Mr. WooLVERTON. — We give them about two crops ; then, the land is planted with 

 something else. 



Mr. Starr. — What is an average crop of raspberries ? 



Mr. WooLVERTON. — I do not do much with raspberries, but I think I would get 

 fnlly as many raspberries from an acre of land as strawberries 



Mr. STARR.^More than 2,000 quarts ? 



Mr. WooLVERTON. — Yes ; perhaps 3,000. 



Mr. Peters. — What will they average per quart ? 



Mr. WooLVERTON. — They vary in different seasons. One season I averaged 10 ' 

 cents for the whole crop, another season 8 cents, and I have averaged as low as 6 

 cents. 



Mr. Peters. — In making a new plantation, what distance do you put them apart? 



Mr. WooLVERTON. — We plant our strawberries 1 foot apart in the rows, and 

 the rows about 3 feet apart. We take two crops of fruit off, as a rule, and then 

 plough it. 



Mr. Peters. — You plant in the spring ? 



Mr. WooLVERTON. — We plant as early in the spring as convenient. 



Mr. Peters. — Do you call that one crop ? 



Mr. WooLVERTON. — No ) there is no crop that year. The first season we allow 

 them to run until we have a sufficient number of plants ready for the plantation for 

 the next two years. 



Mr. Peters. — What is the nature of your land ? 



Mr. WooLVERTON. — Sandy loam. 



Mr. Gaston. — ^What is your best raspberry ? 



Ml-. WooLVERTON. — The best market raspberry in the Niagara peninsula is the 

 Cuthbert. 



Mr Caston. — I think the Turner is hardier than the Cuthbert. 



Mr. Frankland. — The Cuthbert is rather tender. 



Ml'. WooLVERTON. — The Turner is a very excellent raspberry for home use, but 

 is not quite so firm as the Cuthbert. 



Mr. Peters. — How do you protect strawberries in the winter time ? 



Mr. WooLVERTON. — We cover them with a strawey manure. 



Mr. P'etbRs. — Did you ever attempt to put rail fences, running east and west, 

 3 rods apart ? 



Mr. WooLVERTON. — No. 



Mr. Peters. — Do you have snow all winter ? 



Mr. WooLVERTON. — Wo. 



Mr. Peters. — We adopt that plan in New Brunswick. 



Mr. WooLVERTON. — It collects the snow, I believe. 



Mr. Peters. — Yes. 



Mr. WooLVERTON. — It would not do with us. We have had no snow at all this 

 winter. 



•Mr. Caston. — Have you tried mulching the gooseberries and currants I 



Mr. WooLVERTON.— I have never tried it. They are not affected by the winter 

 with us at all. ... 



Mr. Caston.— Mulching with top manure, or anything of that description, is 



supposed to help the crop. 



Mr WooLVERTON.— I find coal ashes useful in that way. 



Mi-. Caston— They are good to mix with the soil, but as a top dressing for the 

 strawberry nothing is equal to good barnyard manure well rotted. 



Judge Mosgrove.— How do you leave your rows ? tj-i ^ 



Mr WooLVERTON.— My plan is now to harrow them down more than 1 did at one 

 time Formerly I left them as wide as possible, by having a wide row and a narrow 

 walk. Now ray plan is to keep the rows rather narrow— say, down to about 10 

 inches. 



Mr. Peters. — You do not allow the plants to get thick in the row ? 



