The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06

where the number of varie
ties is so limited, even more thar
elsewhere. Then success depend,
upon getting varieties suited to til,
locality. Black berries, black car
raspberries and the hybrid raspber.
ries of the Columbia type can, OF
the average, be made to produce nc
more than half crop, and are there.
fore improbable commercially.
II have tested upwards of seventy.
five varieties of Strawberries, in.
cluding almost all the great market
sorts. OF these less than dozen
can be grown with profit here.
Among the good ones are WarAeld.
Senator Dunlop, Bederwood, Splen.
did, Wolverton, Glen Mary and
Clyde. The first named only, in this
list, is a pistillate and must be set
with perfect Towering kind to
make it bear. tits doubtful whether
it would be possible to choose two
more prolific varieties than Warfeld,
and Senator Dunlap. Set two rows
OF Senator Dunlop, two rows of
Wartield, and so on alternating.
Whatever one sets, he should get
plants that have never borne, that
is to say, less than one year old,
early in the spring (fall is not nearly
so good season) from special
grower of strawberry plants, set
them three and half by one foot,
spreading the roots out fan shape,
putting them straight down into
the ground, and packing the dirt SO
firmly that the plant cannot be
pulled up by a single stem. They
should then be cultivated about once
u week the entire season, turning
the runners into the row forming
matted row from twelve to eighteen
inches wide. Iu December the bed
should be covered deep enough to
hlde the plants with cleon straw.
In the spring after the ground has
stopped freezing, the straw should
be parted from the rows and left in
the paths, to keep the ground moist
the fruit clean and the pickers out
Of the mud. After bearing, the
straw should be promptly removed,
and the same method followed as
before until about three crops have
been produced when the bed should
be pIowed up and the ground used
no more for Strawberries for several
years. The first season no attempt
should be made to get berries, but
the blossoms should be picked off.
Cone putting out red raspberries
should be careful to get plants free
from the two most common diseases
that at present atflict raspberries,
anthracnose and the yellows, to set
the plants in the fall (spring will do,
but is not SO good time for red
raspberries as fall,) to leave the
canes few inches long, so that the
location of the hills may be seen, to
throw forkful of litter over each
hill for winter protection in Decem
Der, and in the spring to remove the
mulching and cut the canes back as
far as convenient. Raspberries, like
strawberries should be cultivated
often. Enough should be allowed to
grow eo form a continuous row from
twelve to eighteen inches wide, the
surplus suckers being treated as
weeds. The second fall after setting
and each fall thereafter, unless the
bed Is an unusally sheltered place,
the canes should be bent to the
ground, in the line of the row, all in
the same direction, and covered out
OF sight with earth. Nothing else
is so good as dirt for this purpose.
After the night freezes are nearly or
quite over iu the spring. the canes
should he raised with fork and the
ridges carefully leveled. With
proper care raspberry plantation
will last dozen years. After years
of extended experiments in pruning
red raspberries, have concluded
that with the exception of the thinn
ing out of the weak canes each sum-
mer, to prevent the rows from
getting too thick, no pruning or
heading back'of any description pays.
The bearing canes OF all raspberries,
black berries and dewberries die i'm
mediately after bearing, and should
be removed and burned without
delay.
"Black cap and purple cap rasp-
berries should be set In the spring.
Spring setting Is preferable Tor
black berries, dewberries, currants,
gooseberries. Those who wish to