Show at a late meeting 4 of the indiana horticultural society mr ohmer said he had been very successful in growing blackberries he ha had d been in the business fifteen years and lost but two crops in ten seasons three acres had averaged ave avd raged him 1000 per year his rows were eight feet apart and he sets ills liis plants four fot fet feet apart in the tilo rows he planted posts three feet high at intervals of thirty feet and from nails in the top of t the 1 1 post A he wretched stretched wires fmc from P post 0 S to poetto ost to which his vines were trained he plowed once in in the spring spreng between the rows and then put in the cult or harrow lie ue did not seek to make large earies canes as these do dd not produce the best crops he pruned back baek when the avines vines are three or four neet feet high allow the old wood to remain among the vines from year to year as a support to the young oung vines the laterals latera late rals rais Is he cut back at two feet or even ies less les if the vine was delicate did not pot allow them to grow too thick and no plants wera were allowed between the rows the kittatinny was waa his bis favorite and if he wore were to plant ten acres ho he would plant nil all of that variety he hv maik marketed eted in half balf bush el drawers raspberries Rasp berries borries pay better when sold in quart boxes his s soil 1 I 41 was iras elny clay with a substratum of gravel did not ilot manuro manure manure athil atall 0 q M sebastia sebastian n while w drun kwas v s carrying his four year old boy in his arms arma in cincinnati ho staggered fell and killed the thet child cl illa then uben remorse suggested tho oath 1 I will nover noven drink another drop |