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GROWING BUSH FRUITS 



t. Winter protection. 

 u. Life of plantation — limiting factors. 



4. Do the facts as obtained from the survey corroborate your judg- 

 ment or opinion held before making the survey? Secure if possible com- 

 plete cost studies and records on these plantations, or get estimates of 

 growers. 



5. Prepare a financial statement for a five-year period, beginning with 

 the year of planting, for a five-acre planting. 



6. List your recommendations for improvement of local practices and 

 your reasons therefor. 



7. Should the producing area in the section be decreased or increased? 

 Why? 



SECTION n. GROWING CURRANTS AND GOOSEBERRIES 



Currants and gooseberries are cool-weather and moisture- 

 loving fruits. Heat and drought of summer are of greater con- 

 cern than the cold of winter. They are most at home in the 

 northeastern United States and Canada. In the South the 

 summers are too hot, west of the 100th meridian to the Sierra 

 Nevada and Cascade Mountains the rainfall is insufficient, 

 and in the Southwest it is both too hot and too dry for best 

 development of these fruits. The producing territory tapers 

 off without sharp demarcation. Its limits are altered or ex- 

 tended somewhat through irrigation, higher altitudes, and 

 special factors. 



New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania are 

 the leaders in currant production, followed by the northern 

 coast counties of California. The gooseberry may be grown 

 a little farther south than the currant; the center of production 

 is in Illinois, Missouri, and the states adjacent to them north 

 and east. New York and Michigan are also important factors 

 in production. The fruit of both the currant and gooseberry 

 hangs well to the bushes, so that the picking season does not 

 come with such a rush as with the other small fruits. 



Jellies, jams, preserves, alone or in combination with other 

 fruits, constitute the chief contribution of these fruits to our 

 domestic economy. Gooseberry pies are popular where known. 



