. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 6 BULLETIN 274, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. many others, the ones mentioned or modifications of these are most commonly employed and have been found to be most practicable and profitable. In the upright system, as illustrated in figures 3 and 4, the old canes are trained between the wires which serve to' hold them to- gether and in place. The new canes come up among the old ones or else grow on the ground. The posts which support the wires are about 7 feet in length, set 5 feet above ground at from 30 to 50 feet a
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 6 BULLETIN 274, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. many others, the ones mentioned or modifications of these are most commonly employed and have been found to be most practicable and profitable. In the upright system, as illustrated in figures 3 and 4, the old canes are trained between the wires which serve to' hold them to- gether and in place. The new canes come up among the old ones or else grow on the ground. The posts which support the wires are about 7 feet in length, set 5 feet above ground at from 30 to 50 feet apart. In this and other systems the wires may be attached directly to the posts or to crosspieces or arms, the wires being all the way from 10 to 16 inches apart. Either one or two sets of wires are used, the top wires being placed from 4 to 5 feet from the ground, the sec- ond set from 21 to 30 Fig. 5.—Red raspberries trained in accordance with one of several systems in use at Sumner, Wash. Topping is not practiced in this system. The weaving system may be used with either one or two sets of wires. Where two are used the old canes are wound three or more at a time along one of the top wires, the lower wires being used to hold the new canes in place and out of the way of the old ones. There are a great many variations in this system, from those having onty one wire along which to wind the old canes and with none to hold the new ones off the ground and free from the old canes to another method where the canes are not woven in as above described but are arched over the top wire two or three at a time and tied to the lower wire, the lower wires in such cases being about 18 inches and the top wire 60 inches from the ground. Several variations in the weaving system are shown in figure 5, where the canes are all woven together three or more at a time along the top wire, in figure. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digit
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