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The Home Acre. 
Anthracnose in Raspberries; Kainit. 
1. We have about 40 raspberry bushes, 
12 of which are St. Regis. Last Summer 
on the old bushes the leaves turned brown 
and withered away. The berry, blossoms 
and the stalk on many of the bushes 
did the same thing. On the St. Regis 
the leaves act the same way; the stalks 
get a purplish appearance with greyish 
spots. I think it is anthracnose but am 
not sure. Is it advisable to spray with 
Bordeaux mixture before the buds swell 
and also after the blossoms fall? 2. Is it 
advisable to dig 100 pounds of kainit 
into about 1.200 square feet a week be¬ 
fore planting, say corn, tomatoes, beans, 
etc.? Would raspberries be benefited by 
a handful around each bush? T. A. B. 
College Point, N. Y. 
1. Your raspberry plants were without 
doubt attacked by anthracnose and to 
prevent a recurrence of the attack this 
season all diseased canes must be cut 
out and burned, and those remaining 
must be thoroughly sprayed with 5-5-50 
formula Bordeaux mixture as follows: 
First spraying before leaf buds open, 
spray young canes soon after they appear 
above ground; repeat the application 10 
days or two weeks later, and again just 
before the blossoms open. The meaning 
of 5-5-50 mixture is five pounds of copper 
sulphate, five pounds of unslaked lime 
and 50 gallons of water. 
2. Raspberries would not benefit to 
any appreciable extent by the application 
of a handful of kainit around each bush. 
To produce large luscious berries such as 
bring the top notch price in the market, 
requires liberal manuring and fertilizing. 
The ground should have a liberal appli¬ 
cation of well-rotted manure annually, 
along the rows, in Spring, supplemented 
by an application of muriate of potash 
at the rate of 200 pounds, and ground 
raw bone at the rate of 000 pounds per 
acre, plowed in as soon as the ground is 
in good workable condition. Cultivation 
should continue up to the time the fruit 
commences to ripen. To neglect the mat¬ 
ter of liberal fertilizing and adequate 
cultivation of raspberries is to invite a 
crop of small-sized undesirable fruit that 
must be sold at greatly reduced prices. 
The application of 100 pounds of kainit 
to 1,200 square feet of ground would be 
of more or less benefit to such crops as 
corn, tomatoes, beans, etc. The extent 
of the beneficial results will depend much 
on the texture of the soil, and the amount 
of lime it contains. A liberal applica¬ 
tion of well-rotted manure will prove 
much more beneficial than the kainit. 
K. 
Poultry in Sprayed Orchard; Grafting Wild 
Apples. 
1. I am intending to set out straw¬ 
berries, raspberries, currants, etc., this 
Spring and also raise a considerable 
number of chickens. Do you think the 
spraying is required on such fruit dur¬ 
ing the first season, and if so would there 
be any danger to chickens allowed free 
range among the fruit, and also among 
potatoes that have been sprayed? 2. 
There are a number of small apple trees 
about two or three years old that have 
been growing up wild and clumped up in 
a corner of the farm. Would it be pro¬ 
fitable to transplant the best of these 
trees, cut off tops and graft on scions? 
If so could this be done all at once in 
the Spring, or would it be better to trans¬ 
plant this Spring and do grafting later 
on? B. F. 
New York. 
1. Strawberries and raspberries will 
not need to be sprayed the first year. 
Currant bushes should he sprayed with 
lime and sulphur solution as soon as set 
out to guard against the San Jos6 scale, 
and later, when the. leaves are one-half 
to two-thirds grown, to kill or prevent 
the currant worm from defoliating the 
bushes. No danger to the chickens. Po¬ 
tatoes must be sprayed for the potato 
beetles, also for potato blight. 2. I have 
used “wild” apple trees from fence corn¬ 
ers, and have grafted them, also later in 
the season when the grafts did not take, 
put in buds, with good success. The trees 
must be strong, well-rooted, straight, and 
clean from the bottom up, no forks or 
sprouts from the bottom. But they are 
very apt to send up suckers from the 
roots, and if not well cared for and 
watched every year the suckers will sap 
the life from the tree. They can be 
grafted as soon as transplanted, leaving 
some limbs on to draw the sap up to the 
J. A. II. 
the: rural new-vokker 
Small Fruits in Shade ; Yearling Fowls. 
1. I have a city lot 40x154; two apple 
trees and one pear tree on the back. 
Could I raise blackcaps or red raspber¬ 
ries, strawberries or any small fruits un¬ 
der the trees? 2. What is meant by 
yearling liens, from the shell one year, 
or from the first egg one year? 
Rochester, N. Y. G. w. R. 
1. Small fruits of every kind will pro¬ 
duce more or less berries in shaded situa¬ 
tions. In the wild state, small fruits are 
found in almost every situation except 
in the densely shaded woodland, particu¬ 
larly the raspberry, blackberry and 
gooseberry, but the plants that are sub¬ 
jected to much shade rarely produce as 
heavy a crop, nor are the berries as large 
and of as good quality as those that have 
the benefit of full sunlight. Full ex¬ 
posure to sunlight is always desirable 
for strawberries, raspberries and black¬ 
berries, but currants and gooseberries are 
benefited by partial shading. If the trees 
are not large enough to prevent sunlight 
from reaching the plants, raspberries 
and strawberries may be grown near 
them with more or less success, but do 
not plant too close to the trees. On ac¬ 
count of the limited root system of the 
bush fruits they will be greatly handi¬ 
capped when grown near trees unless 
they are liberally supplied with manure 
or fertilizers, which must be supplied an¬ 
nually as a top-dressing and worked into 
the soil. In general practice the planting 
of berries in shaded situations is not 
commendable, but when one is limited to 
a small area upon which to plant these 
desirable adjuncts to the garden, it is 
perhaps better to attempt to grow them 
in such situations for home use, than to 
pass them by entirely. 
2. All male and female chickens less 
than one year old from day of hatching 
are designated as cockerels and pullets. 
At the age of one year and upwards, as 
cocks and hens. K. 
Success With Hens, by Robert Joos. 
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chapters, Covering the subject from in¬ 
cubation to marketing of the product. 
Feeding, housing and care of poultry 
disease are all given attention. Published 
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