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sary to go through the field cutting back two or three times as 
the young canes will not all 
attain the same height at 
once. This checks the 
growth upward and throws 
it into the branches, as is 
indicated in Tig. 3 ; it also 
stiffens and nearly doubles 
the size of the main canes, 
and makes them self sup¬ 
porting, entirely obviating 
the necessity for stakes to 
hold up the canes or the 
next crop of fruit. Fig. 3. 
After the fruit has been gathered, cut out at once all of the 
old canes; and if there are more than five new canes in the 
hill, cut out the weakest, retaining only the strongest and most 
briery. Cultivate immediately, as the branches will soon be 
too long to work amongst without injury. 
Third Season.— The third season, and each succeeding 
season (as long as the fruit is kept in bearing,) early in April, 
trim all the side branches to within 
one and a half or two feet from the 
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upright canes, as represented in Fig. 
4. Shallow cultivation is all that 
is required until after fruiting. Then 
at once cut away all the old canes 
that have fruited; cultivate well 
and keep the ground free from 
weeds. This leaves the hill open, 
admitting light and air freely, and 
the whole energies of the root are 
now turned to hardening and fully 
developing the new canes that are 
to produce the next crop of fruit. 
Picking .—Women and girls are the best help in gathering 
14—Ao. Tb. 
