Show TH BERRY GARDENA GARDEN-A Prolific Source of Profit and Revenue In a recent issue of Home and Farm Louisville Ky Waldo F Brown after considerable experience 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 black-berries very easily grown and as they prolong the berry season so that the family can have fresh berries everyday every-day for nearly or quite ten weeks no family should be without them Raspberries Rasp-berries begin ripening just before the strawberries are gone and blackberries are ripening before the raspberries are gone I will require but a small plot of land to furnish a supply for a large I family if they are well taken care or and a single planting will bear for many years but if they are neglectec I I and allowed to become a tangled brian I patch choked with weeds and grass I the fruit will be inferior in quality and dwindle down in quantity and in two or three or four years your plat 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 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 early spring i is an advantage to be able to use two horses to mellow the soil and get i in fine condition but when a trellis is used 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 20 inches from the ground and the other a little more than three feet I the end posts are well braced i will only be necessary to set posts once in 60 feet and then drive a good stake once in ten feet A ratchet should be used for each wire to keep it well stretched and the staples must not be driven tight but left so that the wires will play back and forth in them The canes must be pinched back when a little higher than the top wire and then tied fast to the wires I once saw a 4acre field of blackberries trellised in this way and the field yielded 500 bushels and sold at 4 bushel the crop bringing 500 per acre What in these days will pay better I And this is only a beginning After that crops may be expected three years out of four for a quarter of a century increasing in-creasing in yield annually for three fourths of that time What would you plant Well one can scarcely hit amiss All cherries are nice and with several varieties the dish is more likely to be right side up than with only one However How-ever If one has to depend upon shipping ship-ping for a market it will not do to plant the y low sweet varieties they rot so easily For a shipping market > I < W W h > Dy house and Early Richmond of the sour kinds and Black Tartarian Blackhawk Ohio beauty and Windsor for sweet would be good kinds What kind of an experiment would it be my friend to plant h 1 a dozen or more of the large sweet black sorts and try competing with the California cherries which are sold in every mark mar-k t throughout the country after being be-ing shipped 2000 or 3000 miles I Are YOU aware that S cents a pound 1 is the price at which the California cherries are retailed in 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 Tartarian tree in the edge of my fathers garden and they were cherries just as nice a the California At 15 cents per quart that would be 15 per tree or 1050 per acre One could divide that by three for all contingencies con-tingencies of failure and still have a yield whichwould compare favorably with oats at 16 cents per bushel I does not look as if cherries were overproduced over-produced when those grown on the I shores of the Pacific are retailed allover al-lover the great fruit growing states of Ohio and Michigan and New York for I S cents per pound This is a matter dear reader which it might be well to consider especially i you live upon a warm dry soil How would it do to do a little better farming farm-ing upon some other fields and devote half of that barn lot to cherry trees I would not spoil it for a paddock for your sheep and lambs and you might wake UD some fine summer morning arid find as much money upon that little field as upon the entire grain or meadow acreage of the rest of the farm I recently heard Mr S D Willard say that his cherry cron for 1897 was engaged at a certain stipulated paying price previous to December 1 1896 One would think that ther would be overproduction over-production in Geneva if anywhere yet I one canning factory has quickly purchased I pur-chased all Mr Willard has had for three years and this year bespoken them eight or nine months in advance In resnect to curculio Mr Willard says that plums are the first to be attacked at-tacked and if you have a plum orchard adjoining and keep the curculio off of the plums by jarring there will be no stung cherriesL B Pierce in Greens Fruit Grower Location and Size For a Poultry Yard In selecting a location for the poultry yards great caution must be exercised I Select a high and dry piece ot ground f which inclines to the south if possible and having thereon an abundance of go2d shade The soil should be rather I sandy s as to insure perfect drainage A sticky clay soil is to be avoided as dampness is detrimental to the health stock The of old as well as young I more range the fowls have the less expense it is to keep them and the egg production and general health is far better than when they are too closely confined Though we prefer free range yards either 25x150 or 50x150 feet are very satisfactory while many oreeders of fancy or pure bred fowls in this state do not occupy even so much ground The yards should be sown to clover grass so the fowls may have an g abundance of green food which is a positive necessity Yards the sizes above mentioned are large enough for from 12 to 15 fowls On farms where land is plenty it is best to place houses in different parts of the land in close I t proximity to the house in order to be convenient Not more than 25 fowls I I should run together in order to realize I the most from them 50 hens in one I flock will not produce near what the I same hens would i divided into two flocks besides where so many run together to-gether disease is more certain to put I in its appearance POULTRY HOUSES I The farmer can no more expect to realize a profit on his hens when they I are not properly housed than he would from his cattle if allowed to remain out in all manner of weather In housing I the poultry it is not necesary to build elaborate expensive structures but simply have them warm dry and in i the right location The houses should always face south or a little southeast I south-east that they have the benefit of the morning sun in winter The warmer the hens are in winter the more eggs they will lay Cleaning Poultry Houses Poultry houses should be cleaned during summer sum-mer and winter once or twice each week and after each cleaning the floor should receive a thin coating of air slaked lime Once or twice a month during the summer previous to placing the lime on the floor the entire inside should receive a thorough sprinkling with kerosene emulsion or water containing con-taining one ounce liquid carbolic acid to the gallon In addition to this the roosts should be scrubbed regularly once a week with pure kerosene oil The house should also be whitewashed inside three or four times yearly As duck houses have no roosts the floor should be covered with clean straw as often as needed and kept free from odors by the liberal use of disinfectants disin-fectants Whitewash the inside as often as you do the poultry houses PUREBRED POULTRY White Wyandottes This breed has enjoyed great popularity for the past few years and are the equal of any breed for a general purpose fowl They are very hardy and mature early In northern markets they are much sought after for early broilers Haying Hay-ing a low rose comb many prefer them to all others as they can withstand the cold much better than some other breeds Their legs beak and skin area are-a golden yellow resembling creamery butter Being more compact than the Plymouth Rock they make even a better bet-ter market appearance The hens being be-ing splendid setters and mothers are valuable for that purpose also Those who do not fancy a white fowl there are other Wyandottes viz Silver Golden Buff or Black all of which are identical save in color Cocks weigh 8 hens 64 If all you want are eggs and table fowls select some good large lively young hens and buy a Brown Leghorn cock and you will get what you want Or if you want to do a little better than that get some hens of any large breed Brahmas Cochins Plymouth Rocks or Wyandottes and mate with the Leghorn aforesaid Or get some pure white Plymouth Rock hens and a purebred White Leghorn cock and you will be proud of your snowwhite beauties and they will lay equal to Leghorns Or again get some White Wyandottes for they are an excellent all round fowl and handsome enough for anybody Or if you prefer get some other pure breed This is a free country up to date and there are enough breeds to select from Young Trees Are Best The question is often asked Will not the continued planting of peach trees ruin the business Experts say no There are says Central States Fruit Grower natural limitations on the industry that will prevent this They are the extreme winters frosts yellows lack of cultivation failure to thin fruit by which the tree overproduces overpro-duces poor fruit and last a fact not sufficiently known viz that the profitable profit-able crops are the first seven It is better after a tree has borne seven annual an-nual crops to remove it as a business investment putting a new tree in its place rather than to allow if to occupy oc-cupy the ground or plant a tree in some other place and use this ground for other things A good many growers grow-ers will agree with this statement but the best fruit is from young trees and the best gets the money It is not disputed dis-puted that the trees will continue to bear after the first seven years and many times with profit but if you are in business for gain year in and year out the above holds good |