The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-05-28
BY J. L. STAHL.

rHERE are several methods or sys-
tens of training red raspberries,
now in use, some of which are ex-
cellent while others are not so desirable.
System A. Many berry growers use
a trellis made of two No. IA wires
strung horizontally on cross pieces made
of 2x4's. The cross pieces are usually
IL to 16 inches in length and nailed to
upright posts at height of about four
and half feet. Seven-foot posts are
used and set about two feet in the
ground and thirty to forty feet apart.
The canes are kept between the wires
and out of the way during cultivation,
but the old and new canes are not sepa-
rated. With this system of training the
new canes are often in the way during
harvesting and are sometimes badly in
jured by the pickers.
System B. Another method Of train
ing uses a double trellis having two
cross pieces and four wires. One pair
of these wires are placed at height
of two feet, and the other pair at a
height of four and half feet from the
ground With this system the old or
bearing canes are bent over and held
firm by weaving them to the wires on
one side and the new shoots are allowed
to grow upright between the pairs OF
wires and out of the way of the bearing
canes. The posts and cross pieces of
the trellis are very similar to those OF
the preceding system. Growers using
this method of training are very much
pleased with it and claim the fruit is
easily picked and the new canes very
seldom disturbed or injured at harvest
time.
System C. Some growers instead OF
having either single or double trellis
of horizontal wires and cross pieces
have but one wire from post to post on
which the bearing canes are fastened
1t is usually stretched between four and
five feet in height. The canes are some
times woven to the wire but quite often
are bent over and tied. The new canet
are allowed to grow erect and shortly
before harvest time they are tied to
temporary wire.
Old French Method.
Any of the systems 20 far mentioned
can be used in fields having rows sci
seven feet apart.
System d. A plan of training very
much like the old French method ha'
been tried by some growers and is be
ing adopted in number of newly SCI
fields. The rows are set north an<
south, eight feet apart, and treiii'
placed about foot to the east of eael
row. The trellis is made by using eight
foot posts ten inches to q foot IL
diameter. They are set three feet il
the ground about fifty feet apart. Post
seven feet in length may be substitutes
but they must be set closer. A wire i
Stretched from post to post, three fee
from the ground, and on the side Of tn
posts nearest the plants. The bearin'
canes are drawn over to the wire an
securely tied with string. On the oppc
site side of each post and ten or twelv
inches higher another wire is stretched
The bearing canes hang over this wir
but are not tied to it. As the fruit
developed the canes gradually droop III
til they rest on the upper wire. The
are thus supported and can DO easil
pushed to one side without injury q
the fruit is picked. All of the picking
done from the east side of the row an
the new canes are not disturbed. III
new or young canes grow erect and Al