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ing or summer pruning of the new growth which is 
to become the bearing wood for the following year. 
In the Southern states of Louisiana and Mississippi, 
growers get by and simplify the growing by cutting 
off all wood, new and old, down to the ground, re¬ 
moving and burning all brush, after which clean 
cultivation can be started immediately. The long 
growing season makes it possible to grow sufficient 
new growth after fruiting to have an abundance 
of bearing wood for the following year’s crop, and 
just how far north this method can be practiced 
must be determined by each individual grower ex¬ 
perimenting for himself. I prefer March and April 
as being the one best time to plant, although Nov¬ 
ember set plants have done equally as well. 
Secure good healthy disease-free tip plants, mark 
out rows 6 H feet apart and set the plants 6 feet 
apart in rows, spreading out root and being sure the 
crown of the plant is pointing up. An application 
of horse or cow manure placed in the furrows be¬ 
tween the plants gives the young plants a good 
start off and is quite a help in the life of the patch. 
After giving clean cultivation for the first summer 
and leaving the new growth trail on the ground un¬ 
til the following spring, I drive 5 ft. stakes every 18 
feet apart in rows, anchoring down end posts, and 
stretch up wires (No. 12) 25 to 40 inches from the 
ground, and on these I put up the canes the follow¬ 
ings pring after all danger of hard freezing weather 
is past. I spread them fan shaped on the wires, 
cutting off all unnecessary long growth, keeping 
just enough to fill up the trellis. I pinch back the 
young canes in their early stage of growth, the ob¬ 
ject being to get more canes and not such long ones, 
keeping in so far as possible the bearing wood back 
close to the mother plant. 
Now the putting up of the canes is the one big 
job, all other operations being comparatively easy. 
The picking is simplified by having the vines on the 
trellis, as the fruit stems are long and hang well out 
from the vines, and being such large solid berries, 
