Cultural Hints On The Young- 
berry For The Central West 
Plants on the left are two years old, while those on the right are one year old. 
I 'HE Youngberry is one of the newer and less 
widely grown of the brier fruits. It is an extra 
large berry and has so many uses to which it can 
be put that a little extra cultural treatment can 
very profitably be placed upon it. 
During the hot dry summer of 1934, the Young- 
berry grew luxuriantly and kept up the producing 
of large luscious berries right through the hot 
dry weather, not a full crop to be sure, but a crop 
that sold readily and left some margin of profit. 
Its rampant growth without being bothered by in¬ 
sects or fungus diseases looks good to the berry 
grower. Also, the maturing and ripening of the 
crop just at the close of the strawberry season 
brings it in on a market that is usually short of 
berries. But the very fact of its robust growth 
brings us face to face with the most difficult prob¬ 
lem in its cultural treatment, and that is the handl- 
