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Lime-Sulphur Spray. 



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If a small area is to be planted, the ground should be trenched 

 two spits deep, keeping the bottom spit at the bottom, peeling 



^ , . ^ . „ off the turf by a turf-cutter or plous^h pre- 

 Cultivation of . , . i • ^ ^ 



Raspberries. viously, and placmg it grass-side down- 

 wards between the two spits as the work 

 proceeds. The raspberry canes may then be planted after 

 manure has been applied. 



If the area is too large for trenching, and ploughing has to be 

 resorted to, it should be ploughed and subsoiled in October, and 

 early in November broad beans of a good variety for seed pur- 

 poses might be drilled ; or garden peas for seed purposes might 

 be drilled next spring. When that crop is gathered next 

 summer, the land should be ploughed one furrow deep again 

 and cultivated and thoroughly cleaned in hot dry weather, 

 burning the rubbish as the work proceeds ; in early autumn the 

 requisite quantity of farmyard manure should be applied, and 

 the land shallow ploughed, or scarified, thus keeping the manure 

 near the surface. The rows of raspberries may be five feet 

 apart. No other crop excepting one row of strawberries should 

 be grown between the rows, or the surface roots of the rasp- 

 berries will suffer from intermediate cultivation. Edged tools 

 should never .be used in cultivating the land after raspberries 

 have been planted. Superlative is a good variety of rasp- 

 berry. Short stemmed, say 4 ft. standard apple trees may be 

 put in every 4th, 5th, or 6th row of raspberries at 20 ft, 25 ft., 

 or 30 ft. apart, according to the kinds selected, the rows in which 

 they are planted being governed by the distance allowed 

 between the trees in the rows, so that they may be in line all 

 w^ays when planted. 



If strawberries are planted, the proper culture of the rasp- 

 berries should take precedence. 



A preparation which has been found very successful in the 

 United States as a spray for the San Jose scale and other 

 insects of that type is the lime-sulphur 

 Lime-Sulphur spray. Recently the Washington Experi- 

 ment Station made a careful investigation 

 into the best method of making this spray, in regard to which 



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