Spur Bright of the Red Raspberry 
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Figure 4. 
more than twelve new canes each year. (These should be reduced 
to eight or ten in the spring. The extra canes are to replace those 
that happen to break in covering and uncovering. All others 
should be removed as soon as they appear. By keeping these young 
canes or suckers down, the strength is thrown into the main canes, 
thus promoting strong growth and greater fruiting capacity.'' 
METHOD OF COVERING CANES. 
Because of the frequent cold winds during the winter months 
which have a decided drying action on the canes, to say nothing of 
their freezing effect, it has been found necessary to protect them 
in some manner. 
Different materials have been employed for this, such as straw, 
strawy manure, and gunny sacks, but nothing has been found quite 
so satisfactory as soil. Some four years ago, the writer tried a 
combination of straw and soil, using just enough of the latter to 
hold the straw in place, the object in this being to keep the soil 
away from the canes so that in case the following spring should 
be wet and there should be some delay in taking up the berries, the 
injury from ground scald and rot would be reduced. It happened. 
