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BETTER YIELDS FROM FALL-SET STPJ^vVBERRY PLANTS 



Fall planting of strawberries has been compared for yields at the New York 

 Agricultural Experiment Station with spring plantings of the same varieties. 

 George L. Slate of the Geneva Station states "The fall-set beds have generally 

 substantially outyielded the spring set beds, chiefly because of the better stand 

 of earlier formed, and consequently larger runner plants." He finds that the 

 silty clay loam at Geneva is in better physical condition in the fall. In the 

 spring this same soil U.coraes tillable rather late, and in a wet spring planting 

 is delayed too long for good growth. 



The range of dates for fall planting wae October l8 to November 15 and the 

 dates for spring planting from April 21 to May 27. 



table ! 



The yields from fall and spring planting may be compared in the folloiving 



Table 1 



Quarts per 2$ foot plot of fall and spring planted strawberries. 



19U7 yields 



Date set 



