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Currants 
Currants properly dug and shipped should be planted in deep rich Soil although few 
plants will live under such neglect as these generally receive and few so thoroughly repay 
good and proper treatment. Like many other crops about one year in five or six the market 
is over supplied and prices are low, but those growers who stick to currants make good 
money on the average. 
The Currant is a sure cropper every year and has few insect enemies. The currant 
worm may be destroyed by spraying with Arsenate of Lead, a solution of white Hellebore 
and water or any arsenical poison. Hellebore is the safest when necessary near the ripening 
period. Attention should be paid to keep the old canes cut out and the new growth cut 
back when necessary. If that is attended to there will be little complaint but that the 
currants will be as large as desired unless the bushes get very old when it will be better to 
remove and replant. Currants will yield 8,000 to 10,000 quarts to the acre if well cared for. 
For field culture plant in rows 5 feet apart and 4 feet in the row. Cultivate thoroughly 
the first summer. The second year cultivate till you commence to pick the fruit. In August 
or September turn a furrow to the plants and let it remain till spring. 
Stable manure is the best fertilizer to use which is usually applied and plowed under 
in the fall. 
Cherry —This variety has the largest berry 
of any of the varieties. The bunches are 
short but full, the plants make a slow growth 
and do not produce the yield that Fay or 
Wilder will. 
The Cherry currant should be picked within 
10 days after ripening else they will turn 
dark and not bring so high a price. 
The Cherry is an upright grower keeping 
the berries well up out of the dirt. 
Champion Black —A new variety from Eng¬ 
land; pronounced the finest black currant 
ever brought to notice. The bushes are very 
large and the flavor of the fruit excellent. 
Fay’s Prolific—Is a popular variety. The 
berries are almost as large as the Cherry and 
the bunches longer, usually yielding a heavier 
crop than that variety with which it ripens. 
The plant is a slow grower and bothers some¬ 
what by the berries getting into the dirt, but 
this can be helped by keeping the lower 
branches pruned off or by mulching. 
The same precaution in regard to picking 
should be taken with this variety as recom¬ 
mended for Cherry. 
Perfection —This is a comparatively new 
variety ripening earlier by 10 days than Wil¬ 
der and one of the earliest to ripen which is 
an advantage as they can be marketed be¬ 
fore the main crop comes on and while prices 
are at their highest. The color is a beautiful 
bright red, large in size and better quality 
than any other large currant. The plants are 
good growers and bear large crops of fruit. 
The Perfection was awarded the Barry Gold 
Medal of The Western New York Horticul¬ 
tural Society, also the highest award at The 
/Pan American and St. Louis Expositions. 
Wilder—This variety is without doubt more 
largely planted by commercial growers than 
any other. The Wilder is a strong upright 
grower and produces a big crop of fruit, that 
will hang longer on the canes without shell¬ 
ing or turning dark and bear a good crop a 
year sooner than any other standard variety. 
Sometimes there is complaint that the berries 
are not large enough but if the new growth 
is cut back about one-half the Wilder will 
give a satisfactory size berry and yield a 
larger crop than either Fay or Cherry. Wilder 
is one of the latest to ripen and should be 
planted by every grower of currants. 
Champion Black 
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