Show 0 R em n A R 11 MEANINGS strawberries AND RED raspberries RASP BERRIES the season 0 of 1824 1924 was favorable tor for the production of small fruit particularly ticul arly 0 so o for strawberries in ill most moat places good crops of bush fruits were obtained red raspberries rasp berries did not n 0 t yield e a as s large a rg a crop as growers grower ld ex beet w were e re led e t to 0 expect p we were fortunate in having a small bed in our back yard that produced a large crop of splendid herries berries a says ays a writer in the rural kural new or r these rows rowa were planted la in the spring of 1021 the varieties were latham and cuthbert the ground had been well fertilized with chicken manure having n g a access es s to a plentiful len tl t u I 1 plava fcc supply of plants t s t they y were er spaced d ona 0 n e toot oot apart in the row our object in placing the plants close in the row was to get as much fruiting wood as possible for the crop the succeeding summer the canes were frequently cultivated and in some cases made a growth of three to four feet the first season As this variety was quite prone to fa llover with the weight of fruit at time of ripening a single wire was mas stapled to stakes 30 inches above aboe the ground the canes were then tied to this wire thirty quarts of berries were picked the next summer after planting in tile the early summer before the lie herries berries were ripe a rood good mulching of straw from the chicken li icken house was placed between bet Neen the rows this kept down donn all weeds needs and most of the plants that ordinarily come up in the space between the rows plenty of new canes grew up in the ros ronis for a full crop there were bent over and covered with straw and cornstalks corn stalks the protection thus given was inadequate tor for the canes killed back almost as much as those that were exposed again the spaces were mere mulched the canes were mere now at the age when they should do their best many of them reached a height of nine feet or more and a I 1 diameter in some cases of three fourths of an inch they went ment through the winter of 1923 and 1924 in splendid shape the pruning was wag delayed in the spring until the buds begun began to swell in order that only III ile e wood should be left for fruiting one cannot always tell this when pruning early in the spring nearly half of the canes were cut off at the ground line to thin out the surplus growth the remainder were cut back to a height of CO inches inch heavy stakes viere mere driven into the ground along the rows tit at intervals of ag ft fet thee were mere about 42 inches high two no IG wires were stretched along the row and stapled together on oil top of the stakes the pruned canes were then drawn up between the wires which held them in place the vines were tied together at intervals of three or tour four feet we left entirely too much wood for ordinary farm or commercial growing gronning for dry weather menther comes on usually at the time the berries are ripening but since we kind hod water mater available for irrl gation gallon purposes we felt secure in chaj respect we felt cure that the plants would produce at least quarts but the storm that swept over our part of the state about the time the plants were in bloom tore the top out of some huge oak trees and piled up the brush on top of our berry bushes for quite a while after this the plantation was not very promising but the remaining canes recovered and we gathered 70 quarts of splendid berries |