1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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vents a good crop. Fine manure well worked in with 
the harrow, is a popular method with us for stimulat¬ 
ing summer crops. h. c. 
Lehigh County, Pa. 
A SHORT ROTATION FOR RASPBERRIES. 
EATING CAKE AND HAVING IT. 
A friend who has become tired of the Ohio raspberry 
after two years’ trial, desires to change it for the 
Palmer, and is considering the best way to do this on 
the same ground without the loss of a year’s time, as 
his ground is rich and his farm small. I have been 
considering something of the kind, and herewith give 
the result of my plans. 
I have an acre of raspberries on land that is none 
too rich for raspberries, but will easily grow good 
it is not as good as very early transplanting, but in 
this ease it would probably be best. Planted on thor¬ 
oughly clean ground the raspberries would get along 
with one hand-hoeing until the Ohios were ripe and 
cleaned away when there would be no difficulty about 
horse cultivation. 
In putting out new plantations of raspberries, I am 
going to adopt a system of close planting and short 
rotation. The anthracnose knocked me out of more 
than $100 on a two-year plantation of 1% acre of 
Palmer the past season and did not injure the one-year 
crop at all. Now instead of planting 30x84 inches as 
heretofore, I am going to plant 30x48 inches without 
any catch crop of early potatoes or sweet corn. The 
ground is very rich and I hope to get on the 4,300 
plants per acre not less than 1,500 quarts. As the 
Palmer generally nets in my market 8>a cents per 
long as there were any on the vines. The pulp of this 
variety very greatly resembles that of the Malaga 
grape, but it is sweeter and very much richer. The 
bunches do not all color alike. Some are of a dull 
brown or chocolate green, while others are perfectly 
green in color, yet are fully ripe. 
The Terra Cotta and Lemon Blush tomatoes are very 
interesting as novelties and to show what can be done 
in the way of cross-breeding of varieties. Our ideal is 
a medium-sized, smooth, roundish, bright red tomato, 
with solid flesh, but no core and few seeds. As Tiie 
Rural says, the Terra Cotta reminds one of a bag of 
jelly. It is evidently too soft and off color to prove 
valuable for market or canning. One plant of our 
Terra Cotta produced fruit similar to that of the 
others, except that it had the color of the Lemon 
Blush. 
crops of blackberries. It lies alongside of a black¬ 
berry patch, and I propose to enlarge this by planting 
next spring a blackberry root between each two rasp¬ 
berry plants in the row. The soil is clean and mellow, 
and I hope to keep it so next summer. I think that 
the blackberry roots will make about as good growth 
quart, I can get a nice return in 14 months from plant¬ 
ing. After picking the first crop I can do one of two 
ways, I can plow it up for wheat or rye the same fall, 
to be put in clover the next spring, followed in due 
time with po^toes, or I can remove every alternate 
plant and leave the plants 60x48 inches to bear another 
Lemon Blush has many good qualities. The slight 
reddish tinge or blush gives it a pretty appearance ; 
but its yellow color is against it for those who grow 
tomatoes for profit. It is excellent for tab'e use, but 
there is little demand for a yellow tomato for any 
purpose. 
as if planted by themselves. After picking the rasp 
berries next summer, I shall mow them 
down and keep the sprouts off, and the next 
season I shall have a blackberry plantation 
where the raspberries were. 
crop. I am thinking of planting an acre another way. 
The New Stone and the Royal Red gave us gocd 
satisfaction. The former was grown quite 
extensively in this State this season. Both 
growers and canners speak well of this variety. 
We were much pleased with Burpee’s Early 
Black Lima beans. The vines do not grow 
so rank as most varieties, and they yield an 
enormous crop for the growth of vine. Many 
will not like it on account of its color and 
J@ its small beam 
Rasping the Blackberry Patch. 
I might saj that these raspberries were 
planted last year but, owing to several causes, 
did not make a perfect stand, and the growth 
is quite weak and slender, while that of the 
blackberries alongside is quite vigorous. It 
seems plain that the ground will bear black¬ 
berries, while it is not adapted to the rasp¬ 
berry. Unless the blackberries which I am 
to plant do better than I have ever been able 
to make them do before, I shall not get any 
fruit to speak of the year following planting, 
and, in order to have someihing to harvest 
in 1895,1 am going to plant a row of Palmer 
raspberries between each two rows of rasp¬ 
berries at the same time I plant the black¬ 
berries. The rows are now seven feet apart, 
and this will leave me 3% feet for cultiva¬ 
tion. This will make cultivation a little 
crowded before raspberry harvest, but, after 
the old raspberries are removed, both rows 
will be young stuff, and I shall be able to 
give what cultivation is necessary until it is 
time to layer the tips. I shall have the 
young growth removed from the old rasp¬ 
berries as fast as it appears, and thus, per¬ 
haps, get extra-sized fruit in consequence. If 
it should develop the fact that keeping down 
the new canes helps the fruiting, then it will 
be a practical experiment of value whenever 
a raspberry plantation is being picked for the 
last time and there is no occasion to grow 
canes for the succeeding year. The new rows 
but, like the Black Mexican 
sweet corn, its superior quality renders it a 
desirable variety. 
The Willow Leaf L ; ma, as its name indi¬ 
cates, has leaves like the willow. The vine 
appears to be unusually healthy, and that 
fact may make it a desirable acquisition. It 
was not nearly so productive as the Black 
Lima. 
The three dwarf Limas—Henderson’s, Bur¬ 
pee’s and Thorburn’s—were planted alongside 
of each other. They are all three valuable 
acquisitions. Henderson’s produces the small¬ 
est bears and with us was the most produc¬ 
tive The large beans are preferred by most 
persons. As to quality we could see very 
little difference. One is apt to let the beans 
of the Henderson’s get too old before begin¬ 
ning to use them, as the pods do not fill out 
very much even when they are full size. 
Del. Col. Ag. Ex. Sta. m. ii. beckwith 
of Merino blood. Such sheep are blocky, have 
good constitutions, are very healthy, are fully 
adapted to country and climate, and may be 
kept in much larger flocks than most imported 
stock. The man in any part of the country 
where there is a good demand for mutton 
who wishes to make most money in sheep 
growing will keep a flock of these ewes, 
annually cutting out the older and poorer, and sup- 
p'ying their places by fresh additions. Then on 
these use a ram of some of the mutton breeds, so as 
constantly to raise cross-bred lambs to be put into 
market as early lambs, or kept to feed the succeeding 
winter, selling them when coming one year old. 
My reasons for this course are these : There is an 
almost unlimited demand for this class of mutton, and 
this demand is growing faster than the supply. The 
crossing of bloods always resu ts in progeny superior 
in vitality, quick growth, and get-there-ativeness to 
either of the breeds selected for the cross. One great 
reason why this Yankee nation excels all others is be- 
Latest Photograph of the Agnes Emily Carman Rose. Fig 247, 
Plant Palmer 4% feet each way and then plant Turner 
between the Palmer one way giving cultivation one 
way the first year and removing the Palmer after fruit¬ 
ing the first time and give the Turner the whole crop 
afterward. As red raspberries do not give a full 
return in one year from planting I can in this way get 
a good crop of black, and at the same time grow the 
red ones. The two kinds are so dissimilar in habit 
that I do not think the prostrate blackcap growth will 
materially affect the upright red. Perhaps some of 
your readers have already experimented along these 
lines. l. b. pierce. 
Summit County, Ohio. 
Explanation 
present raspberries. 
- - - - blackberries to be planted. 
-raspberries to be planted. 
FRUIT AND GARDEN NOTES FROM DELAWARE. 
cause it is so thoroughly cross-bred. 
The choice of breed for the ram depends entirely 
Close Planting and Short Rotations. 
Now my friend can do one of two ways ; he can 
plant his new raspberries between the hills, as I am 
going to plant blackberries, or between the rows as I 
shall do with raspberries. As his ground is rich, it is 
probable that his raspberry growth is vigorous and 
would shade the young plants too much if the latter 
were planted between the hills, and it might be diffi¬ 
cult to put them in, in gocd shape, for lack of spcce. 
Probably if he has his raspberry plants growing on 
his own place so that he can dig them when he chooses, 
it would be best to give the Ohio patch a thorough 
cleaning up between the rows about May 1, and then 
transplant directly from where the plants grow. They 
Our t*o vines of the Diamond grape, which were 
planted in the spring of 1890, bore a heavy crop of 
fruit again this season—their third year of fruiting. 
The grapes were not fully matured until August 28. 
Last year they were fully ripe August 18, and the 
product of the two vines was 15 pounds. This season 
we neglected to weigh the fruit, but the yield was 
very much larger than last season. 
The fruit on the two v nes of the Green Mountain 
grape was fully ripe on August 18, the same date as 
last year. We cannot understand why the Diamond 
should ripen so much ^ater than it did in 1892. 
White’s Northern Muscat produced some very fine 
bunches of fruit this season, which were ripe Septem¬ 
ber 9. The berries s re very large and pulpy. Although 
upon what is desired by the flock master. If early 
lambs are sought, then, as I have so often said, no 
breed equals the Dorset Horned. No other will get so 
many lambs, get them so early, or put them into mar¬ 
ket in such fine condition at so young an age. If 
lambs are sought, to be carried over winter, to be fed 
and sold when coming one year old, then I know of 
nothing equal to the Hampshire. They are larger 
than Dorsets, and their lambs will be larger at one 
year old and, with good feed, will be in prime condi¬ 
tion. A study of the fat sheep shows of this country 
and England will show the correctness of this state¬ 
ment, as crosses with Hampshire blood on one side, 
usually the sire, always carry off the prizes for year¬ 
lings. 
would be six inches high, but could be easily moved the flavor is slightly foxy, several persons who sam- Uniformity is a quality greatly desired in all mar- 
at this stage, a good many practicing this method of pled them considered the quality very good. We ket products, and in nothing more so than in lambs, 
late transplanting as a common thing. To my notion noticed that our children were very partial to them as Both these breeds named stamp their get very uni- 
