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R. M. KELLOGG'S GREAT CROPS 
Western Triumph. 
Cultivation. The ground should be 
deeply worked before setting the plants. 
The rows should be seven to eight feet apart 
and three feet apart in the row, giving am- 
ple room to keep the ground mellow, which 
is the great secret in preventing the berries 
from drying up. Do not let a sucker grow 
outside of the straight row, so it will remain 
only one plant wide, then the cultivator can 
do nearly all the work. Never take a sucker 
out of a bearing plantation for planting. By 
so doing you cut and mangle the roots, thus 
weakening the canes, besides it causes them 
to send up innumerable suckers, and you 
will soon find your plantation rapidly failing. 
Prune pretty closely if you expect large, fine 
fruit. 
As soon as the new canes get to 
be two feet high pinch off the termi- 
nal bud and they will throw out 
laterals and become strong and stocky, 
needing no stakes or other support. 
(See article on pinching and piuning 
raspberries). 
Don't pick them oftener than twice 
per week, as they are not ripe until 
they have been fully black for two 
or three days. A green blackberry 
isn't the sweetest thing on earth. 
Never allow the sun to shine on a 
blackberry after it is picked. It 
causes it to turn red and sour. Keep 
the boxes in the shade. 
Strawberries or most any crop can 
be planted between the rows the first 
season. Keep the cultivator going. 
Blackberries root deeply, especially 
if the ground is stirred deeply the 
first year. 
In a dry time cultivate after each 
picking. You will get a pretty good 
picking the second year and a full 
crop the third season if you have used 
recaloused root cutting plants. 
All the plants here offered are fine 
recaloused root cuttings and cannot 
fail to prove heavy fruiters. 
For general cultivation we have 
never found any variety equal to the 
Western Triumph. It has now 
been our main crop for sixteen years 
and during all this time we have 
never failed to get a profitable crop. 
It has brought us more money than 
any other berry on the farm. We 
have never given it any winter protec- 
tion and it stands Michigan winters 
like a sciub oak. I have never seen 
a bush affected with rust or any other 
disease. It ripens a little before Sny- 
der and is well out of the way before 
wild berries are on the market. The 
berries are large, sweet and luscious, 
with no hard core. 50c per dozen; 
$2 per 100; $7 per 500; $12 per 1,000. 
Tlie Taylor Pro- 
lific is a late berry 
which generally suc- 
ceeds without pro- 
tection. It follows 
the Western Tri- 
umph. Its quality 
is very high, a gen- 
eral favorite and 
very productive. 50c 
per dozen; $2 per 
100; $7 per 500; $12 
per 1,000. 
Taylor's Prolific. 
