286 STATE BOARD OP AGRICULTURE 



SMALL FKUIT TRIALS AT THE COLLEGE. 



BY L. B. TAFT AND H. P. GLADDEN. 



Bulletin No. 142. — Horticultural Department. 



STRAWBERRIES. 



The soil where the strawberries have been grown is not suitable for the 

 best results. In some portions too much clay is found; other parts of the 

 field have a quicksand bottom, but a short distance from the surface. 

 Heavy applications of stable manure have been given and every effort 

 ' made by frequent and thorough cultivation to get the land in as good 

 tilth as possible. The past season has been favorable for both plant and 

 fruit production, and as the spring setting was made on a plot of ground 

 much better adapted to strawberries than the setting of 1895, more uni- 

 form results are looked for in the season of 1897. 



As a rule, the yield of the perfect flowering varieties was very small*. 

 Although they blossomed profusely, few fruits developed. From the fact 

 that the imperfect flowered varieties bore full crops, it seems probable that 

 the plants were too much weakened by excessive pollen production to 

 develop the fruit, rather than that there was any lack of potency in the 

 pollen. 



