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tannery and got a lot of dry tanbark, and they hauled that out 

 there and put it in piles around his orchard, and then he went 

 all around those heaps around his peach orchard and set them 

 afire, and that man was the only man in the county that had a 

 peach. I tried his game, and it came pretty cold that night, 

 and wherever that smoke blew there was not a tomato hurt, 

 but the smoke only blew over a few, and I mistrusted there 

 would be trouble, and when I got out in the morning I saw 

 where the trouble was; I saw that the minute I got there. So I 

 pitched right in and reset those that were killed, and by the 

 time anybody came around everything looked just as nice and 

 green as though we never had any frost. One man says to me, 

 "I'd like to know why you are any better than the rest of us." 

 I couldn't tell him. I never told them that I got up bright and 

 early and reset those that were gone. Now I want to give you 

 a conundrum. Why am I like a new kind of squash I've got? 

 Give it up, eh! I am inclined to sport. 



THE NEW STRAWBERRY CULTURE. 



L. J. FARMER, PULASKI, N. Y. 



(Reference was made to this article in the April number, but it appears to be 

 of sufficient value to print entire. Sec'y.) 



The "new strawberry culture"is to take up the plants in tlie springy 

 and instead of setting- them out permanently at once to set them in 

 a small bed close tog-ether, about tweutj^ plants to the linear foot, and 

 shade from the direct raj'S of the sun for a few days until firmly es- 

 tablished. A furrow about eight inches deep is made with a spade, 

 the plants are trimmed of superfluous leaves, their roots shortened 

 to four inches and then set closely to the land side, hauling earth up 

 onto the roots, filling the furrow. The little rows are made about a 

 foot apart, except once in a while when a row is omitted for a path 

 to facilitate moving among them in watering and sprajdng. Fine 

 rotted manure is put between the rows for a mulch and to add fer- 

 tility. The plants are kept in this bed about a mouth or six weeks. 

 Meanwhile they are watered as often as necessarj' and sprayed with 

 Bordeaux mixture once a week to free them of the leaf blight. When 

 ready to set out,the ground is soaked about the plants, and they are 

 taken up in pansand carried to the field. While in this bed new roots 

 start out on all sides of the old ones. These cling to the soil, and 

 when transplanted earth is taken along with the plants, and they 

 grow right along, receiving no check in transplanting. 



The advantages of this S3^8teni are raanj\ As is well known, if you 

 set plants out permanently earlj^ in April, the ground cannot be 

 properly prepared because it is too wet, etc. Set out so earlj', they 



