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THE GROWING OF DEWBERRIES IN COLORADO 



BY W. PADDOCK, COLORADO 



THE average person scarcely knows 

 _ . what a dewberry is, yet the fact 

 remains that a few are making com- 

 fortable incomes from small plantations 

 of this fruit. 



The dewberry may be likened to an 

 overgrown blackberry, but it grows upon 

 a trailing vine-like cane, instead of the 

 upright cane of the blackberry. 



The dewberry is by no means adapted 

 to all situations and localities. It has 

 succeeded best in the higher altitudes, 

 but in locations where apples are con- 

 sidered to be a safe crop. Such sur- 

 roundings are found in the Plateau Val- 

 ley, and it is here that the growing of 

 this fruit is becoming a specialty. 



While dewberry canes are of trailing 

 habit no trellises need be used. A better 

 plan is to keep the canes cut back to a 

 length of about two feet. They are thus 

 made to assume an upright form, and 

 a vigorous plant has the appearance of 

 a thrifty low-growing bush. At the first 

 pruning the new canes are tipped when 

 the}- are twelve to eighteen inches in 

 length. Just before the picking season 

 begins the canes are pruned a second 

 time, and this consists in cutting back 

 the laterals to a length of about two feet. 

 The following spring the plants are gone 

 over a third time, when the old canes 

 are removed and the vigorous laterals 

 are shortened. 



Winter protection is afforded by throw- 

 ing a few shovelfulls of earth over each 

 of the hills. 



When grown in this manner the plants 

 are commonly planted five feet apart 

 each way. The cultivation and irriga- 

 tion do not differ from that of raspberries. 



The dewberry is very perishable, there- 

 fore extreme care must be exercised in 

 picking and marketing. The berries must 

 not be exposed to the sun after being 

 picked, and over-ripe fruit will not bear 

 transportation. After the berries have 

 been packed the crates must be placed 

 in a cool place, where they may be dried 

 to a slight extent by a free circulation of 

 air. The car in which they are shipped 

 must be thoroughly ventilated. Iced 

 cars only increase the liability to mold. 



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A dewberry plantation in good bearing 

 will yield from three hundred to four 

 hundred crates of berries per acre. The 

 average price has been $2.25 per crate at 

 the shipping point. Assuming the cost 

 of production to be $1.25 per crate, a 

 very high estimate, there remains a profit 

 $1 on each crate, or a net return of from 

 $300 to $400 per acre. As has been inti- 

 mated, this fruit does not succeed in all 

 locations, neither would all men be 

 adapted to the management of a five-acre 

 plantation. Consequently there would 

 appear to be small danger of the busi- 

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 offers a certain income to the' few who 

 will choose proper locations, and who are 

 adapted to the work. 



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