Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1873 — The Currant. [ARTICLE]

The Currant.

There are few of the small fruits more grateful to tiie palate, and perhaps none so generally neglected, as the cuitanl.” It is an exceedingly gross feeder and to insure the best results, even on rich soils, liberal manuring should be resorted to. Our plan, as with strawberries, is to plant one-third of the area intended for this fruit each year, grubbing up the ojd plants after they have borne two full crops. When you. set the young plants which may be obtained from cuttings of the previous year, dig a good shovelful of compost manure in each place where you set a plant, and when you cut out the old wood after the fruiting season, fork in an additional shovelful of manure about the plant. The reason for removing the plantings as heretofore noticed is that the borers do not seriously injure the young plants, and, by this renewal system, you always have young, thrifty plants for fruiting. If the borers do not depredate upon your bushes, the surplus, if any, may. be readily sold at the nearest village, for notwithstanding, or rather perhaps because of, the general neglect of this fruit, the best samples, as with strawberries, always command a good price.— Weatem Rural. Ask for Prussing’s Ckler Vinegar and take no other. Warranted to preserve Pickles.