Show 0 vy DISEASE FA FACTORS TORS IN GROWING VING RASPBERRY Of the small fruits th the tho raspberry Is probably second In tn Importance to the strawberry Its lIS ripening rl season sex son cornea comes Just lust after that of strawberries and thus hus supplies the finest of fresh fruit before the tree fruits come on the market try Ily a wise choice of varieties of red rd black and purple types fresh Cresh berries mu may be picked over oer a period of at least seven weeks In June JUlie and ond July E raspberries If It f given special attention will produce a crop In the fall Call A supply of this delicious fruit canned or otherwise preserved furnishes with Its original raspberry flavor a pleasing and healthful part port of the meal during the winter months says the Ole Prairie Fa Farmer MD lf There are three thre distinct types of raspberries being bling grown the red black and purple Of at these the greatest great est eat acreage Is II devoted to black varieties vane varie ties tips followed by red rd and purple raspberries rasp berries In turn The reds are not as ns popular r os vs the blacks as os they cannot be grown as BS economically producing as they do less to the acre and ripening ripen ripen- ing lag unevenly over a considerable e pe per clod For Tor some time lime the blacks have been blen the pr predominating type In th till the tillI state being pore more adaptable to our I soil loll and ond climatic conditions than then the reds There are arp however howe Indications that certain purple varieties of merit will gradually supersede the blacks since they thy are more productive bear bor fruit of higher Quality ty and are seen seem seemIngly the least subject to disease of ot any of the three thrle types Raspberry cult culture ur In Illinois has bos been declining In Importance as a growing fruit Industry for a number of years In the 1010 census Illinois Is reported as ns producing quarts of raspberries a decrease of quarts from the 1000 crop There Thre are ore various contributing causes for tor this decrease such ouch as unfavorable economic conditions the practice of Incorrect methods of culture and ond the spread of destructive diseases disease Insect insect In tn- sect pests as os yet et have hove had no considerable considerable consider consider- able oble effect In limiting raspberry culture cut cul ture tore J problems of production and distribution are largely local and ond vary from train year to year Help In growing grow grow- ing lag and picking Is usually recruited near by and the local markets In most cases handle the fruit easily except incase In Incase Incase case case of strawberries and grapes |