THE STRAWBERRY JANUARY 1906 



no rain. And, as the late summer, fall 

 and winter are as a rule dry, we often are 

 caught with neither rain or sufficient ditch 

 water. This condition often is such that 

 in winter a field of berries may be so 

 thoroughly dried as to kill them. 



Water should be applied as late in the 

 fail as it can be had, and then a mulch or 

 covering put over to hold the moisture. 

 Many berry fields are lost from failure to 

 do so, hence to succeed one must provide 

 mulch. The air in these arid regions is 

 so verj' dry that moisture is rapidly ab- 

 sorbed, so much so that in the growing 

 of raspberries and similar fruits the canes 

 are laid on the ground in the fall and 

 covered with earth, and even peach and 

 other trees have been so treated, though 

 in the tree it is evident to all that the 

 difficulty of bending them to the ground 

 and covering is too expensive and great 

 to be feasible except in a very limited or 

 experimental way. 



Having overcome these difBculties the 

 rest is a simple matter. The methods of 

 culture are varied according to the taste 

 of those growing, though in this part of 

 the state the matted row seems to pre- 

 vail. Our Agricultural College professor 

 in horticulture recommends the narrow 

 matted row. Some urge the hill. How- 

 ever, as land with water is very valuable 

 in this country — it is the water that makts 

 the value — intensive culture is the thing. 

 When all the preliminary expense is put 

 on in cultivation and in getting water to 

 the field, every inch should be made to 

 do its share. When so managed it is as- 

 tonishing the returns thst are obtained. 



As to market it is a question always of 

 being in close touch with it. There are in 

 this state vast areas of arid and desert 

 lands (desert for lack of water mostly), 

 the irrigated tracts lying in widely separ- 

 ated places and often far removed from 

 the cities and from each other. Around 

 the cities and where markets easily are 

 reached, there can be no doubt as to profit 

 in the culture where intensive methods 

 are employed. The farm should and 

 could always have this fruit. The War- 

 field is a fine berry here, and many other 

 varieties do well. 



Loveland, Colo. 



An Extended Strawberry Season 



MOTHER NATURE certainly 

 must have misplaced her calen- 

 dar last fall, if we may judge 

 from the strange freaks played in the 

 strawberry patches all the country over. 

 Perhaps in no previous season have re- 

 ports come from so many parts of the 

 country relative to the performance of the 

 strawberry plants in producing luscious 

 fruit late in autumn; and the season of 

 1905 will go upon the records as unusual 

 in this regard. Away up among the 

 granite hills of Vermont, where Jack 

 Frost is supposed to make his first visit 



after starting on his annual tour from his 

 home on the north pole, someof our folks 

 enjoyed the extraordinary treat of big, 

 ripe, juicy strawberries as late as the clos- 

 ing days of October, and down at the 

 national capital, on the banks of the old 

 Potomac river, red, ripe and richly flavord 

 strawberries were gathered November 5, 

 and some of these were growing on Cap- 

 itol Hill, in the very shadow of the home 

 of the national government. 



Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode 

 Island, New York, New Jersey — it sounds 

 like the old-fashioned roster of the states — 

 send reports to The Strawberry of the 

 pleasurable sensation created by the 

 presence of that berry of which the world 

 ne\er yet has had a sufficient quantity, 

 and out in the West Illinois, Iowa and In- 

 diana had large crops. In Indiana, along 

 the Ohio, the crop assumed commercial 

 importance, and cr:Ues of the universally 



popular fruit were shipped to the Chicago 

 market. 



We owe much to the beautiful and de- 

 lightful season of 1905. Farm and gar- 

 den folk never were more prosperous as a 

 result of warm suns and blessed rains, 



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