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Show 1 jbriar patch, choked with weeds and grass, the fruit will be inferior in quality ,and dwindle down in quantity, quan-tity, and in x two or three or four years your plot will be worthless. I have known .a raspberry row to remain in profitable bearing for 35 years, but it was cultivated as nicely as a. garden every year, and properly pruned and fertilized. In growing these berries for family, fam-ily, use, I. would trellis and keep the canes tied .up, as - they can be kept clean much easier and will be more convenient. to pick, and can be set closer. In field culture I find it best to make the rows nine feet apart for blackberries, as we do not trellis, and in the spring-it is an advantage to be able to use two horses to mellow mel-low the soiland get it in fine con-ditioivbut, con-ditioivbut, when a rtrellis isused, and the canes kept tied up, they may be set in rows seven feet apart, but we set the plants three feet apart in the row in either case. .. The best and cheapest trellis is two fence wires stretched, one about 201 inches from the ground, and the other a little more than thuee feet. If the end posts are well braced,-it will only be necessary to set posts y once in 60 feet and then drive a ' good stake once in ten feet . - - . A ratchet should be; used " for each ""w ""' wire, to keep it well stretched, and 1 the staples must not be driven tight, but'lett so that the wires will' play back and forth in them. The caries must be pinched back when a little higher than the top wire, and. then tied fast to the wires. I once saw. a 4-acre field of blackberries trell-ised trell-ised in this way, and the field yielded 500 bushels and sold at $4 a bushel, the crop bringing $500 per acre. What in these days will pay better? bet-ter? Arid this is only a beginning. After that crops may ' be expected three years out of four for a quarter of a century, increasing in yield annually an-nually for three-fourths of that time. What would you plant? Well, one can' scarcely hit amiss. Ail cherries are nice and with several varieties, the dish is more likelv to be rvht Tlie Berry Claries, In a recent issue of Home and Farm, Louisville, Ky., Waldo F. Brown, " after considerable experience exper-ience in small fruit growing, has the following to say in its favor, which can be endorsed by all who have had any experience in this line in Utah: ' I have found raspberries and blackberries very easily grown, and as they, prolong the berry season, so that the . family can have fresh berries every day for nearly or quite ten weeks, no family should be without with-out them. Raspberries begin ripening rip-ening before the strawberries are gone, and bUckberries are ripening before the raspberries are gone. . It will. require but a small plot of land to furnish a supply for a large family fam-ily if they are - well taken - care of, and a single, planting will bear for many years,' but if they are neglected; neglect-ed; And. allowed. to Jiecome.a.tangled side up than with only one. , However, How-ever, if one has to depend upon shipping for a market it will not do to plant the yellow sweet varieties; they rot too easily. For a shipping market, Dyehouse and Early .Richmond, .Rich-mond, of the sour kinds, and Black Tartarian, Blackhawk, Ohio Beauty, and Windsor' for sweet would be good kinds. . Vhat kind of an experiment ex-periment would it be, my friend, to plant half a dozen' or' more of the Jarge, sweet, black 'sorts and try competing with the California cherries, cher-ries, which are sold, in every market throughout the country, after being shipped 2,000 or 3,000 miles? "" ' Are you aware that 8 cents a pound is the price at which the California Cal-ifornia cherries are retailedjn Ohio markets, which is 15 cents per quart and with the stems on at that? When I was a boy I used to pick upwards of 100 quarts from a Black .CoaUoucd on fourth page. The Berry Garden. Continued fro-n first pnge. Tartarian tree . in the i edge of my father's garden, and they were just as nice ai the1 California cherriesY ; "At 15 cents per ".quart; ; that would be $15 per tree, or $1,050 per acre. One could divide that by thfe for ail-contingencies' of failure and 'still .have a yield which would "compare jfayorably yi throats at 16 cents-per .bushel. ; It does not look as if cherries cher-ries were overproduced when those ' .grown on the shores of the Pacific are retailed all over the great fruit growing States of Ohio and Michigan Michi-gan and New York for 8 cents per pound. , . . This is a matter, dear reader, which'it might be well to consider, especially if you live upon a warm, dry soil. How would it do to do a little better farming upon some other fields and devote half that barn lot to cherry trees. It would not spoil it for a paddock for your sheep and lambs, and you might wake up some fine summer morning and find as much money upon that little field as upon the entire grain or meadow acreage ot the rest of the farm. I recently heard Mr. S. D. Wil-. Wil-. lard say that his cherry crop for 1897 was engaged at a certain, stipulated stip-ulated paying price, previous to December 1, 1896. One would think that there would be overproduction over-production in Geneva if anywhere, yet one canning factory has quickly . purchased all Mr. Wiliard has had for three years,' and this year be-spoken be-spoken them eight or nine months in advance. In respect to curculio, Mr. Wiliard says that plums are the first to be attacked, and if you have a plum orchard adjoining and keep the curculio off .of the plums by jarring there" will be -no stung .cherries. . -T V |