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Show Raising Raspberries. There is no fruit more desirable or more easily grown than the red or black raspberries. The plants cost little and one can get them for nothing by making cuttings from wild bushes. They are much more easily grown than strawberries, and are much less trouble. The strawberry bed must be hoed, trimmed and weeded regularly or it will be completely covered up, but the raspberry will produce luxuriantly luxuri-antly under adverse conditions and eve.n downright neglect. Two thirty-foot rows, one of a good red and one a black variety, -will furnish fur-nish abundant fruit for the average family and the entire cost of having all the raspberries you want for a month's time every year need not exceed ex-ceed the cost of a little fertilizer and a little Bordeaux mixture. A raspberry patch will bear some fruit the second year and it will carry a heavy crop thereafter, for as much as ten years. They will grow well in any well-drained, well-drained, fertile soil and the black varieties require a little richer soil than the reds. Neither will do as well as the blackberry on sandy or poor soils. Buy your plants from a nursery man and put them into a well prepared ieed bed in the spring. Plant in rows, having the plants about two and one-half one-half feet apart. Set the plants a lit tie deeper than they were at the nursery, firm the soil well and water occasionally for a week or two. The ground should have a liberal covering of stable manure before turn ing over, ana it win do wen to worn into the soil around each plant about one-fourth of a pound of a mixture ol bone meal, three part3 and muriate ol potash one part Fertilize in this proportion pro-portion each year, keep the ground cultivated and you should have heavy crops of large, juicy berries every year. . Beds located in exposed positions In very cold climates will need to have the canes laid down and covered with earth and straw during the winter. When the bushes are properlj pruned and fertilized, it will not be necessary to support them, but there are many advantages in tying the canes up to wire supports. Be careful in the pruning. Aftei the first year cut all of the old canes out as soon as they have fruited. At the same time cut out surplus and feeble canes. In the early spring cut out all canes which have been winter killed and trim all remaining stalks about a third. Rust and anthracnose are the most common diseases. Spray with Bor deaux for the first one and cutout and burn the diseased canes if rust an- pears. Slugs or worms can be killed by spraying with hellebore or arsenate of lead. Raspberries frequently produce 2,50C quarts of fruit per acre in a single year. |