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- looked so good that I decided to let them grow 
and see what they would do. I harrowed sey- 
eral times after this, driving over the plants 
but cutting off very few. 
When the plants were too large for the har- 
__ tow, the weeder kept the soil loose and the weeds 
from growing until about the middle of July, 
_ when I left them to take care of themselves. 
_ The following April I top-dressed the field with 
_ 100 pounds of nitrate of soda, 100 pounds sul- 
{ phate of potash, and 300 pounds basic slag to 
_ the acre, and did nothing else for them until 
f the berries were ripe in August. I kept no 
record of the yield, but it was such that one 
could fill a quart basket without moving. This 
_ experience proves that only a few hours’ work 
; with a team and no hand hoeing or weeding are 
sufficient to raise all the blackberries any fam- 
ily can use. 
__ By plowing half of the field one year and the 
other half the alternate year, it is an easy mat- 
ter to have an annual crop. Confine the black- 
berry canes to rows so as to make the work of 
_ pic! ing the crop pleasanter; this can easily be 
_ accomplished by cultivating between the rows 
with some tool that would keep the suckers cut 
] off as fast as they start. 
__ Never set more than a few trial plants of any 
_ variety that is not known to be hardy in your 
- own section. Snyder and Wachusett Thornless 
"are varieties that can be depended on for hardi- 
_ ness wherever any blackberries wil grow. There 
: are many new varieties, some of which have 
points of superiority over these, but they are 
_ generally -not as hardy and should only be 
tested at first. But set blackberries this spring 
and set enough of them—you will want them 
_ for sherbet, ice-cream and fruit drinks and 
_ surely for canning for winter use. 
4 Newmarket, N. H. ALFRED C. DurGIN. 
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Raspberries as an Ornamental 
? 7 Screening 
ANY a small homestead has some un- 
sightly places on it—lattice work, fencing 
and the like—which can be greatly improved in 
appearance or screened by planting, and noth- 
ing is better for the purpose than raspberries. 
_ For instance, my hen yards are located at the 
back of the premises. In front of them extends 
a long stretch of lattice work. running prac- 
_ tically east and west, the front of it facing 
the north. Being surrounded on the south by 
_ trees in the hen yard, the land on the north 
side of the lattice does not receive very much 
_ sunshine. The lawn originally extended up to 
it, but the grass was poor near the lattice. The 
_ thought occurred to me to try raspberries. 
y, I had considerable difficulty in finding a sat- 
isfactory place for them, for the plant is so 
profuse in its annual supply of new shoots that 
the average small garden is no place for it. 
The spreading habit of the fruit forces one 
_ sometimes to remove it from the garden because 
of its encroachment upon territory required for 
_ other crops. If put in unusual places this diffi- 
t culty does not arise; and in the early spring of 
e I put out some young plants of the red 
: 
Cuthbert variety more for ornamental purposes 
than for the fruit. The baseboard of the lattice 
is raised an inch or two from the ground, allow- 
ing air and moisture to pass underneath. This 
_ keeps the bottom board from rotting, while at 
_ the same time the patch receives the drain from 
the henyard which slopes slightly in that direc- 
tion. It remains, therefore, cool and moist 
_ even in dry seasons and at the height of sum- 
_ mer. Raspberries delight in just such a soil, 
so that the partial shade given by the lattice 
work turned out to be a blessing in disguise. 
io Now, this little strip cf raspberries, in addi- 
tion to serving as a luxuriant foreground and 
_ relief to the monotony of the lattice work, pro- 
_ yides me annually with about fifty quarts of 
_ delicious berries. One advantage of growing 
_ them in such a place is the prolongation of the 
_ ripening period, thus allowing fresh fruit on 
the table for at least six weeks and providing 
a surplus for canning purposes to supply the 
_ family for the year. Another advantage is that 
_ they are naturally fertilized by the drainage 
_ from the henyard. Moreover, they require lit- 
_ tle cultivation. In this latter connection I 
have been able to utilize the fowls to good ad- 
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