Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-03-01
Farm Notes.
sMALL rRuIrs ON rnn rARM.


Charles A. Greene, OF Rochester, n.
Y. has written as follows, la the NeV
England Farmer, on raising small
fruits. lie says: "rhe competition In
tho production OF farm products, caused
by the opening OF the vast tracts u
land In the Northwest and West, leads
the farmer 10 ask himself, what can |
do TO Increase the revenue Of my
fRrmD IL Ia clear that the Eastern
farmer must produce crops that do not
require large tracts Of lands and that
cannot easily be shipped great dis
tances. Nothing covers these objects
sought after 40 completely ms fruit
growing, one acre Of small fruit often
Yields more revenue than ten or
twenty acres Of ordinary farm
crops. My experience has been
with all fruits, both large
and small, and lean towards
the small fruits, owing TO the fact that
they come into bearing very soon after
planting aud bear more regularly every
year, whereas apples and pears have
their or years. lsaspberries, strawbcr.
ries, blackbcrries. grapes and eurrants
benr almost every year with great uni.
formity. The small fruits also are no,
No tickle ~ regards peculiar soil, doing
well ON almost any good farmland,
whereas the large fruits require select
sites aud elevations. Small iruits, sl-o,
do better on some soil than others
and all, both large and small, do
better on elevated sites than on low
lands.
| am often asked what particular
branch Of fruit culture would advise
n farmer to follow. My experience
would indicate that II would be more
profitable TO grow all the leading small
fruits in preference to selecting any
one, for the reason that, should failure
occur In one variety, the others would
make up the loss. Further than that,
one makes customers In the neighbor-
hood for his Strawberries, and the same
patrons would be glad to purchase his
faspbcrries, blackberrles, currents and
other fruits, and he would hold their
trade better by having nn assortment,
one following the other In season, thus
supplying them continually. His
equipment In wagons, baskets and
crates for Strawberries, would answer
for all the other small fruits.
"Another advantage In growing
small fruits IL that the frult.growor
IlhhAT MS HNlhN
berries, raspberrles. etc., and sell them
at n price that will often surpass the
returns received from fruit from the
same farm,
az advise all beginners to start ia n
small way, planting few each Of the
different species, anu thus gaining ex-
perience without taking any large
risks. One can learn nearly as much
about strawberry growing by cultiyat.
ing one-qunrter ofan acre as he can In
cultivating one hundred acres; and the
same OF grapes and other fruits. II he
makes mistakes, as we all do In the ue.
ginning, the loss incurred will be small,
and eau easily be borne; while II he
begins in large way, mistakes would
be disastrous.
GRAPES FOR WINTER USE.
Under this heading u New England
writer AYERS that the Concord IL about
the poorest keeper on the long list OF
cultivated grapes. Yet thousands OF
farmers grow no other variety, or only
the ptill older Isabella. This also II
not n frst-class keeper, though better
In this respect than the Concord. Isa-
bellas we have kept IN fair condition
until the middle or last Of January.
The Catawaba Ia "a better keeper. but
the best keeper OF all In our acquaint-
ance are the Roger grapes, that ripon
lste, Barry, Wilder, and Agawam.
The two frat named are large,
black grapes, better than the Concord,
and not having Its fault Of cracking
the skin or dropping from the bunch.
No grape that cracks or that does not
cling 10 the stem can keep we'll.
This Iona II another late grape that
IL n good keeper. II will Dear more
moisture than most others, Ms its ten.
dency Is not to mold, but 10 shrlvel
ana dry with abstraction OF moisture.
This IL partially prevented by dipping
the end OF the stem Ia sealing wax thus
excluding evaporation from the stem.
This Salem grape Is too sweet to
keep well, though 1t looks all right.