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TOBY'S TRAVELS __ Chapter VII 



In the Puyallup area of the state of Washington the growing of cultivated 

 blueberries is making considerable headway. One sizeable blueberry farm which I 

 visited in company with Dr. Schwartze of the Puyallup Experiment Station, covered 

 an area of approximately twenty acres. Last year the yield on this plantation 

 was at the rate of eight tons per acre and the berries were sold to a processing 

 plant at the rate of .ipl;i;0 per ton. The varieties being grown here are Concord, 

 Jersey, and Rubel. The planting distance is eight feet between rows with the 

 plants set six to eight feet in the rov/. The entire area was covered with a saw- 

 dust mulch. Sawdust is so plentiful in that part of the United States that most 

 of the sawmills burn the sawdust to get rid of it. Many homes in that area are 

 heated vfith sawdust with the savfdust being fed into the furnace by means of an auto- 

 matic stoker. Many of the sawmills burn sawdust and waste lumber in the boilers 

 which furnish power to make the electricity which in turn operates the mill. 



Now let's get back to that blueberry patch that we were talking about. Near 

 this blueberry field the ovmer had recently dug an artesian viell 128 ft. deep viith 

 a natural flow of 125 gallons of water per minute. In this area of limited rainfall 

 irrigation is of prime importance so irrigation is supplied whenever the soil begins 

 to dry out. An application of water has been found to be especially important in 

 the fall. 



A 16-20-0 fertilizer is used on this plantation at the rate of 60 pounds of 

 actual nitrogen per acre. 



I was informed that a 12 acre plantation had been sold recently for 4(3^^000. 



This particular grower propagates his oi-n plants using the mixture of 3 parts 

 of peat and 1 part of sand. Propagating frames are placed under a slat roof and are 

 supplied with bottom heat. 



