P A C I F I C T R E K A N D V I N E 



INTERESTING TO FARMERS 



Small Fruits and Berries 



The strawlicrry is different in many re- 

 spects from nil other fruits. If I set out 

 a strawberry plitnt this spring', it will at- 

 tempt to bear fruit at once, since its 

 blossom Ijuds were formed last fall, and 

 they mu^t push out in bloom, without 

 delay, but the removal of the plant makes 

 it impossible for it to bear the full crop 

 of fruit that it would otherwise have 

 borne. Planters advise cutting off the 

 blossoms as fast as they appear on straw- 

 berry plants set out this spring. A neuly 



the ground is fertile, and is well cared 

 for, and the plants are not crowded too 

 closely together, the parent plant will 

 continue to blossom and bear fruit for 

 three, fcuir or five years, according to the 

 vigor of the variety. Where strawberry- 

 plants are crowded closely together like 

 grass in the meadow, they cannot give 

 good results in large and beautiful fruit. 

 Some varieties are inclined to make new 

 plants much more freely than others. 

 Tlie proprietor must see that the plants 

 in the strawberrv bed do not become too 



mant, wood ashes, or scattering freely, 

 barn-yard manure. The man who loves 

 strawberries sets out a few rows of new 

 plants each season. He may allow his 

 old beds to remain, but he does not de- 

 pend entirely upon them. The careless 

 man tliinks when he has planted straw- 

 berries once that these will do for a life- 

 time. He does not care for them well, 

 allows them to become smothered in 

 weeds and grass, and then after three or 

 four years wonders wh}' his strawberry 

 beds do not produce more fruit. 



planted straw lierry plant soon becomes 

 established in its new home, and when 

 it has done this, it sends out runners to 

 make new plants. The raspberry does 

 practically the same thing, sending out 

 roots in variovis directions which throw 

 out buds that make new canes and new 

 plants. It is evident from this that the 

 parent straw i)erry does not e.xpect to 

 live on, year after year. Its principal 

 work is done within a year after that. 

 The new plants sent out from the parent 

 plant are expected to furnish the larger 

 part of the crop of strawberries, ImU. if 



crowded, and that the young plants have 

 room in which to develop. It the old 

 jilants can be entirely removed after they 

 have fruited, and new plants have taken 

 root, it would be the best thing possible 

 for the strawberry bed, and the old 

 |ihints are thus removed in many iu- 

 loo large. 



stances wlu-re the plantations are not 

 Varieties of great vigor, like the 

 Corsican, will continue bearing fruit in 

 the same bed for many years. Old 

 strawberry beds should he enriched <'ach 

 .reason by sowing o\er them, when dor- 



THE WISE 



WOOD 



SPLITTER 



lias been thor- 

 oughly tested. 



Portable or Station- 

 ary; does the work 

 of s men with axes. 

 Manufactured by 



A. Coonradt & Son 



717 2dSt Ok1annd 



First Prem. State 



I'air lydi. 



