Show R HM D ao PROTECT ALL SMALL FRUITS mulching Is recommended to pill them through drying blasts of winter weather small fruits should lc be protected from the drying blasts of the winter winds if they are to come through the winter in good shape for bearing nn an abundant crop next season old straw or stable manure makes an ideal mulching material in fact any material of this sort ani will do but coarse mulches euell as fodder are not so satisfactory T tue it e mulch u is applied three to four or even six indies inches deep and it may tie be put on by hand band or inith ith a manure spreader whore where the patch to be mulched Is small the hand method is efficient but whore a person has a large area of berries to cover the manure spi cader will economize in both time and labor where there is danger from winter killing hilling tile the bush fruits such as blackberries had best be laid down before mulching this Is not usually necessary excepting with red raspberries rasp berries or with tender varieties of the other bush fruits laying down is accomplished by first plowing or spading a furrow along one side of the lie row and close to the plants the tha bushes may then be bent over into this excavation and the earth which has been removed over them A mulch may then be applied over this |