Show FARM AND GAJIDEN MATTnnB OF INTEHBBT TO AOnlCULTUntBTS I espo tp loDC Shot About Cnlll lion sit Ihs toll sod Iklil Thrtrof tlortlrillira Itltrotliiro on1 loH nil r fllor ot tUiplxrrlri I am often asked by letter how I manage man-age lllackeap In plantlnir cultivating and pruning Toan wereaeh Inquiry lnke much time and ac many that make Inqulrleaare r ideraof the PAne Pius ItKVltw I answer through that medium and 1 hope to make the mod practical mode of planting and after work to plain that the novice In berry growing will know of a certainty how to proceed start to Onllh aol all Inqulrlei may lie fully answered lion to plant Me ahmild plant the rou even feet apart and net the plant three fret apart In the rows Ilant row north and aoulh where practlca ble but would rather plant cant snub went than to plant up and down hill Well grown plant before taken up occupy with I their root a circle of about one foot In diameter I therefore there-fore dig hole for plant atheist one loot across and several Inches deeper than the plant want to be set The setter draw tome of the good top Mil back Into the hole leaving It higher In the middle and having It deep enough to allow tho uproiit of plant to be about two Inchr below the mirface and let the long mAIl root elope downward around the center and nil flue toll on tho root and prIM It down firm but leavetoll mellow and rake after rain to prevent emit from forming Cultivate and hoe often but tho tt < el rake II I moro safe to tune until plant are well up 1 When plant have grown to be about one foot high pinch from tip of leadIng lead-Ing shoots about one snub one half IncliHto make them grow more atocky and they will form letter hill and not grow to low and uprnwllng After plnihlng a tip back once do not touch It again that kcavm but let It grow at will Never lie to taken If the toll U good and good cultlva tlon given and plant were good to tart with you will be Mirprlscd at their great growth It matter not what form your vine may tako do not touch them until the next spring and especially If you have planted tho Older they will take care of them sober IJI far as winter wind and cold are concerned at they need no protection winter or summer 10 stand our climate north or south Tho next siring ahortrn In the cane to make a compact hill perhaps no larger than a half bushel basket As soon as pruning Is I done each spring keep I ground well cultivated the moro often tie Letlec until berries are lirarly I ripe Mulching put In at that time will hold moisture and 1 keep fruit clean The last of May or fore part ot June one year from planting the young cane will spring up from tho hill and when they are from IS to 94 Incurs high according to their ttreugth and iiprlghtnc cut or pinch from their top about one and one half Incurs h lo over the patch about every two day as tho canes grow up very oulcklynnd pinch off all canes at they get the right height Wo usually watch the patch for shoots about ten daya after we commence to pinch back We lay again never pinch n cane but once and we would about as lOOn dig up the whole patch and throw It Into the brush pile as to neg lect to pinch tho cam nt the right time After tho pinching back lull done they want no moro pruning until tho next spring except cutting out old canes after fruiting A soon no this crop ottriilt picked I remove all old 1 cone that fniltcd cutting them of near the ground and carry out at onco and bum them A toon as old cone are out cultivate nt once to bo out of the way of young cane and clean out with boo all weeds and gross that may be among the hill In after year da as already ndvlted but pinch back < tomewhat higher but leave them not over two and a half fret high to get the greatest crop and stand wind without tupport As hllla get oldcrpcrhapt they may throw up I too many cane In n hill In that case after removing canes cut out all surplus one leaving tho best and strongest I often leave as many at eight or ten If even In also The morn left the closer one ha to prune 1our trong rones with many lateral are better than more Shorten In cane every tprlng to make a good hill and raw and not leave tho cnne too long You will be moro Inclined to leave too much wood rather than not enough There issue I rule to lay down to prune by but touslI our bent Judgment After a teasoti or two of careful Hatching wo will learn what they need Dlftcr cat varieties need tomewhat different treatment III tome grow morn tprawllng than other The Older will take on a better form of row of Itself than any other lllack cap that I have can be pruned make The Older U the Ideal bush and no other grow In ao fine a form neither can they be pruned to grow like It and they give mo morn pleaiure matte j faction aud protlt than any other that I ever plauted Pruning Last spring to guard against wind storms pruned shorter than ever before to the hills looked rather stumpy until thus leavo were out Tie allllol aro cry short pointed and flue fruit Menu exams out In multitude from five to ten Inchon In length At picking lime the rows were von and In pood form being about three and a hall fuel high and about four feet wide or hrough and a mat of berries spread over the Whole surface like a blanket No pUer could pick over ono row ilxtcn rod longln ten hours and last iim < m was spoor one on neaoant nt late frosts high wind and burning drouth llkor oould not cross over from one row to another as they were unhroll like a hedge they usually giro U pickIng pick-Ing from twelve to fourteen day My oldest row tome of them IS year old produced the most fruit My 1 patch Is I alway pruned and eared for neeotdlng lo the above and I always tueccedln having n heavy crop of fruit I use 00 wins or other supports give no winter protection although cold reaches thirty live degree below zero I think any novice In fruit growing by following these Instruction and practice with good brain and a willIng will-Ing mind may do well as the above is I 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