send all my fruit to one
party, and I found that it was not only more of an object to them, but
people would come every day to buy some, knowing they were getting the
same quality each time.

Although it has been my experience that the raspberry is never a
failure, still I have found that it is a good policy not to depend
entirely on the raspberry, but to extend the plantation in such a way as
to have a continuous supply of fruits and vegetables in season, from the
asparagus and pie plant of the early spring to the very latest variety
of the grape and apple ripening just before the heavy frost of fall,
when it is again time to tuck them all away for the winter.

Mr. Ludlow: Do I understand that you have to lay down and cover up those
red raspberries?

Mr. Johnson: Yes, sir; otherwise you only get a few berries right at the
top of the cane, and if you cover them the berries will be all along
down the cane.

The President: Do you break off many canes by covering them?

Mr. Johnson: No, it is the way you bend them. When you bend them down,
make a kind of a twist and hold your hand right near them. You can bend
them down as quick as a couple of men can shovel them down.

Mr. Anderson: Do you bend them north or south or any way?

Mr. Johnson: I generally bend one row one way and the other the other
way. Where you want to cultivate, it is easier for cultivation; you
don't have to go against the bend of those plants. That bend will never
be straight again, and when you come to cultivate you are liable to rub
them.

Mr. Anderson: How far have you got yours planted apart?

Mr. Johnson: About five feet.

Mr. Sauter: What is your best raspberry?

Mr. Johnson: I haven't seen anything better than the King.

Mr. Sauter: Do you cover the King?

Mr. Johnson: Yes.

Mr. Sauter: We don't do it on the experimental station. I never covered
mine, and I think I had the best all around berry last summer.

Mr. Johnson: That might be all right when they are young, but I find it
pays me.

A Member: Don't they form new branches on the sides when you pinch off
the ends?

Mr. Johnson: Yes, sir; then you pinch them off.

A Member: Don't they break right off from the main stalk in laying down?

Mr. Johnson: No, no.

A Member: We have a great deal of trouble with that. How do you get
these bushy bushes to lie down?

Mr. Johnson: I take three or four canes, and kind of twist them, give
them a little twist, and lay them flat