Show RAISING BLACKBERRIES If Given Care and Attention They Make a Very Profit Profitable Profitable able Crop DY n It B G To raise n a patch oi of black blackberrIes blackberries berrIes the tho consideration Is the theland land hand Select time the site most suitable I 1 prefer n a southeastern e how liow however ever most an any lund hand that will produce forty Corly to fifty bushels or of corn to time the acre will SlOW grow good nice black blackberries berries The best time lime to set out Is In the fall fallI I have hao planted In November with good results See that time the land I free freo weeds ns as far as H possible and I have hae practiced summer allow In Iii order ordel to 1 have It iL tree free from weeds but think It moro more to raise some seine hoc crop such uch as I and In this wa way the j ground bround can be kept clean and f free eo from irom weeds Preparing the tho land means enough plowing disking anti harrowing to put the tho soil In good condition down deep an any r can cami estimate about what thIs would mean I The rho next thing Js Is gelting the plants and the best way I ever eer tried Is isIf Ii If you have a patch and can sot got roots from It YOU OU know that thc they ue re sulta suitable le lefor t for your our Holl or also elso the they ma may usually be procured from froni some nearby nel h bor and the tho greatest cost wilt will usually be the labor or of digging and setting them themI T I have paid all the wa way from lO 10 to 26 6 per acre acro for or the tho preparation or of the amid an and the tho plants and labor of oC set lug J The first year alter after paInting the tho land ati an be to most any ClO crop that ili not shade the young oung too Touch much but th they must not be ten If IC you lose the use or of the tho land Imd for forthe or orthe the first year as Jl It would stunt their i The Tho second year car there nia may be few berries berlles but not man many and the j j land Jand should be put In something that will Ill shade it Il such os as cow peas which also add humus and nitrogen to tot t time the soil foll The Tho third Y year lr there will be n a fair crop which will vili balance balanco the tho expense t n of cultivation and havo hao a little lell 2 The fourth year I have IUlO alwa always s had a crop which pays pas all expenses for or carIng carinI for tim the young plants and leaves a good hi bIg profit or Of course the old oid canes must be kept out and In case r the tho rust hould strike them I lr try to cut every I bIt or of it out and amid burn hurn It IL Time amount oC profit front from this herr will dep depend almost entirely on time the manage manaSe mont It receives I I 1 can usually get from to to as hiGh as t O cases holdIng J quarts of oC berrIes from an acre 41 3 11 I 1 o of good canett r I usually l flure that It Iti i takes about I l per ease case to market marlat tIme the berries paying for fOl picking boxes and express Ji r I have htwe had berries sell all the lie wa way Iron from S1 1 to per quart 4 case de depending or of course on the con or of the market marlet J I sell runny berries for I 1 per pcr case cae for when the they get that low I stop shipping J I hoe have sold old many for or per CI e H Hand e 1 and In a few fe have received per case It It Is not very er hard to I time the profit for over 1 Is usually profit as an average mcrae through the entire season per case antI razes cases Per Jer acre would mM mean jj net This however Is It lIon very JY low But Bul then It Il as as thoy Iun some years Selling for un nit average o of perhaps per case cases would bring In a new t of 1 O Oat Of at course they are arc not likely to run high through tho but I 1 usually get over oer cases per acre and am therefore ablo to make from rein to per acre aCle on tIme the aver mor average age ase I |