Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-01-27
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PLANTING STRAWBERRIES

| occasionally, at evening, and after the new
leaves appear, the water can be enriched bv
illllng barrel with horse stable manure and
water, leaving it near the bed. The sooner
they are planted the larger the next crop.
FOR market, spring time is best, costing too
much labor to water them now. My plan is,
first, clean ground, either after potatoes or
summer fallow; it must be clean and rich.
Early in April, select good, strong plants.
OF last years growth, cut back the roots to
three inches, mud the roots in rich soil. made
by digging a hole as larpe as half a bushel
IN the garden, and using liquid manure wa
ter After laying off the ground in rows
three feet, we take small dibble, or cabbage
planter, putting the roots well down, even
With the surface of the ground, and make
all firm. The mudded roots prevent drying
until new roots are thrown out from base of
leaves, or crown of plant, and all commence
to grow at once. Keep the ground mellow
with cultivators and one-horse subsol plow,
until the runners are in the way. Then
with hoe, cover the runners one foot i'll width
each side of row, leaving a foot free for path
This covering makes stronger plants quicker.
Now all the ground is occupied by strong
plants, with many leaves, which afford pro-
lection through the coming winter. If you
have plenty of straw, or straw manure, a
covering OF one inch or two, carefully laid,
will enlarge your crop the coming year, be-
sides keeping the fruit clean during heavy
showers, also preventing weeds. 1t need
not be removed in spring, as the leaves and
fruit stems will push their way through
without injury. This covering will also act
as mulch, greatly assisting the plants
through drought, in pelfectng a grand
crop.-Rwal New Yo,7ter
PRUNING RAsPBERRIEs. was formerly
the practice to allow the old canes of rasp-
berries to remain untouched after the season
of bearing till early the following spring,
when these and all snpernumerary newer
canes were cut out at the surface of the
ground, and the few stronger ones left to
bear the crop for that year. More recently
the practice is recommended Of cutting out
the old canes rs soon as the crop is gathered.
There is one objection to this practice. The
leaves are usually in their full vigor, and the
roots derive portion of their strength from
these leaves. Cutting away the canes at
this time tends to check the vigor of the
roots, in the same way that pruning away
large limbs of tree in full leaf Injuries its
strength. 1t is BETTER therefore, to defer
the pruning till the leaves begin to drop
from the old canes, or even to leave the work
till early spring. When too many new canes
spring up, they should be cut out as soon as
they make their appearance early in the sea-
son, leaving no more to grow than are want
ed for bearing the crop next year. But if
this is neglected till they have made full
growth, it is better to leave them till spring.
as cutting them away in full leaf Injuries the
roots, as already explained. But as expert
ment is usually better than theory, those
who have raspberry plantations may satisfy
themselves on these points by treating paral-
lei rows according to the different methods,
and observe the results on the bushes and
crops next year.-Couatry Gentleman.
FRANCoNA RAsPBERRY.-Th Rural Home
recommends this as the most profitable rasp-
berry for market, where the soil and locality |
are favorable, and when it can have the best
culture; and mentions the plantation of John
Logan, near Rochester, where the plants
were set 3 feet by s. but are now nearly corr
tinuous lines of canes. They were loaded
with fruit last season, which sold in the
market for l6 to 20 cts. a quart, yielding
nearly $l 900 per acre.