260 State Horticultural Society. 



If it is desired to use an insecticide for canker worm or codling 

 moth one pound of Paris green ma}' be added to twenty pounds of 

 the dry Bordeaux mixture. 



The dust sticks to the trees much better if it is applied when 

 the dew is on the trees or while they are wet just after a rain. 



JNIachines for applying the dust may be had from the following 

 firms : Leggett & Brother, New York city ; Kansas City Dust Sprayer 

 Co., Kansas City Mo. ; J. J. Kiser, Stanberry, Mo. ; Hillis Bros., Mc- 

 Fall, Mo.; Ozark Dust Sprayer Co., Springfield, Mo.; Hazeltine Dust 

 Spra}^, Springfield, Mo. 



STRAWBERRIES— PREPARING THE GROETND, VARIETIES, 



AND CARE FOR HOME USE. 



(H. Schnell, Glasgow, !Mo.) 



In preparing ground for strawberries, it is best to start a year 

 before planting. If your soil is thin, apply a liberal coating of manure 

 and grow a crop of potatoes, cabbage or something that requires 

 cultivation. The following spring plow it deep, the deeper the bet- 

 ter, or if only a small spot, spade it, and pulverize the soil well. Do 

 this early in April, but not until the soil is dry enough to crumble 

 well. After the surface has been well pulverized, set your plants 

 either in rows, four feet apart, plants i8 or 20 inches in the row, or 

 m rows two feet apart and 18 inches in the row, the latter plan being 

 "tor garden culture where horse cultivation is impossible. Then 

 stretch a line to set by. We use a spade to plant with, and have 11 

 boy to hold the plants in proper position. First, open a wedge- 

 shaped hole by moving the handle of the spade to and from you. 

 Then, when the plant is in proper place, with the roots spread out in 

 a fan-shape, thrust the spade in four to six inches from the plant and 

 force the soil up to it. Use your foot to firm the earth well, then 

 level up around the plant. If the plant is properly set, the bud is 

 just visible. Too shallow or too deep planting are both fatal. Never 

 set plants dry, always out of a bucket with two or three inches of 

 water in it. No kind of plant, shrub or tree should ever be set with 

 the roots dry. Begin cultivating and hoeing a week after setting, 

 never letting the weeds and grass get a start, and continue through- 

 out the- summer, every eight to twelve days up to about September 

 TOth. Keep the runners cut up to July 15th or even later; they will 

 make plenty more after this date. Rather have your rows too thin 

 than matted too quickly. Plants six inches apart will produce more 



