Pruning Blackberries

Persons having cultivated the blackberry, are possessed of sufficientknowledge to understand the fact that tlie longer they allow the canes to remain unpruned, the lateral branches are proportionably shorter, and the fruit smaller. To obtain the largest size berries and the largest quantity too.cut back the leaalng canes to not exceed four feet in length, and sliorten-in also the lateral branches, if they seem to need it. This will be found to increase also the breadth of the stool, affording more bearing room, and generally to result in greatly improving the erop. It can be done any time up to tlie lOth ot April. In July the young wood.which bythat time has grown ovcv the tops of the old bearing .mes, shoukl be clipped, especially the lateral branches. It will have the best effect upon the following year's erop. The raspberry. where they have beeu laiil down under ground, were pruned in the fall. Where not laid down, prune now. This raspberry pruning consista in cutting out or digging up all the weak canes, leaving about three or four strong ones to every stool, ïhen these canes should be shortened according to their strength, or the amount of injury they may have received during the winter. A weak cane may be shortened one-half; and a third may be cut off from a strong cane, if it is not injured. But if it be injured it must of course be cut back as far down the cane as the iniurv extends. To ascertain if there be injury a cut across is all that is necessary. If not injured there will be a little moisture ooze out between the bark and the wood; but if injured the whole cut across will look dry,- Germantown Telegraph. A colored voter In Mobile had been employed by a merchant to take some kerosene oil to the Mobile and Ohio Kailroad depot for shipment. lie informed the gentleman who employed him that he was going to vote the Democratie ticket- wouldn't think of voting any other. On his return from the depot he was asked for the receipt for the kerosene oil. Putting his hand into his pocket, he pulled out a citizens' ticket. "This isn't the receipt, exclaimed the merchant. "Bless de Lord," was the response, "I done gone an' voted the kerosene oil ticket." ïhere are several literary men in Washington who have an income from their books of nearly $6,000- per