THE STRAWBERRY FEBRUARY 1906 



sprayed with Bourdeaux. During the 

 first rain following I put on forty pounds 

 of nitrate of soda to an acre, distributing it 

 along the rows, taking care to put it on 

 the upper side of the plants on ground 

 slopings. Repeated this May 10 and on 

 June 10 picked my first three crates of 

 big, red delicious strawberries, — and from 

 then up to July 19 shipped 650 24- 

 quart crates of strawberries from the orig- 

 inal 8,500 plants covering about 1 1-5 

 acres of ground, and netting an average of 

 about two dollars per crate f. o. b. at 

 my ranch, Wilkes, H. C, besides which 

 we consumed and gave away a great 

 many berries. 



Creston, British Columbia. 



High Value of Farm Manure 



MANY strawberry growers fail to 

 appreciate the extraordinary value 

 of farm manure, and frequently 

 overlook this most important element in 

 their work as horticulturists. The founda- 

 tional manure, the fertilizer that lasts and 

 aids in making the mineral elements of 

 the soil available, is that made by live- 

 stock on the farm; and the man who lets 

 this precious element go to waste is quite 

 as foolish as the man who would throw 

 gold dollars into a bottomless pit. Aye, 

 more, for life would go on and mankind 

 be just as happy and prosperous if e\'ery 

 dollar of gold were in some bottomless 

 pit; but if we fail to conser\e the soil 

 that grows the world's food supplies, 

 famine, suffering and ultimate extinction 

 must be the lot of the race. 



Writing on this subject Prof. Harry 

 Snyder of the Minnesota Experiment Sta- 

 tion says: "For the permanent fertility 

 of soil there is no fertilizer more valuable 

 than farm manure. Its effects are often 

 felt for ten, and on some soils even twenty 

 years. At the Rothamsted Experiment 

 station grain was raised on one plot for 

 twenty years, receiving each year an ap- 

 plication of farm manure. Its use was 

 then discontinued for twenty years and at 

 the end of this time the plot produced 

 much larger crops than an adjoining plot 

 which had never received any manure. 

 Farm manure has such a lasting effect 

 upon fertility because it assists in making 

 the mineral plant food of the soil avail- 

 able for crop production. When manure 

 decays it unites with the inacti\'e mineral 

 elements of the soil and produces com- 

 pounds known as humates, which grad- 

 ually become available as plant food. 

 Hence it is that manure is valuable not 

 only for the elements of fertility which it 

 contains — but more especially because of 

 its making the inert plant food of the soil 

 more active and available for crop pro- 

 duction purposes." 



Don't let a forkfull of this richness get 

 away from your berry patch, if you seek 

 large and permanent success. Save all 

 you can of that made on \our own place 



and engage every pound of it available 

 elsewhere. Good plants, good cultiva- 

 tion and plenty of barnyard manure form 

 a trinity of horticultural fundamentals 

 that spell success in every language, in 

 every clime and in every season. 



IJ O W is that boy of yours coming on? 

 ^ *■ Is he interested in life.-" Interested 

 in doing something for himself and earn- 

 ing his livelihood, or his way through the 

 university.'' Have you ever talked straw- 

 berries to him as a certain and practicable 

 method of accomplishing really import- 

 ant results.'' Never a better opening for a 

 boy who wants to get ahead than that 

 offered by the strawberry patch, and it 

 makes very little difference whether you 

 live in a country town or on a farm or in 

 a big city. He can raise strawberries at a 

 profit anywhere if he will take hold of the 

 work and push it. Talk with him about it 

 anyway, and encourage him to undertake 



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