THE STRAWBERRY JANUARY 1906 



In April, 1904, I set two hundred thor- 

 oughbred Clyde strawberry plants on 

 well-dressed ground, making it about as 



watch its performance in the way of crop 

 production, learn its needs and fill the 

 great dish generously with food supplies 



THE AMERICAN MANURE SPREADER AT WORK ON "THE STRAWBERRY" FARMS 



rich as for corn, giving them clean culture 

 during that season and until they began 

 to bud in the spring of 1905. Then I 

 watched the great green fellows swell and 

 grow till they ripened. Then the fun be- 

 gan, coupled with the work necessary to 

 rush them to market. 



That little patch of ground yielded very 

 gratifying profits, and when people learned 

 the quality of my berries I had more or- 

 ders than I could fill. I did nearly all 

 of the hand work myself, and while it is 

 hard work it is no harder and much more 

 healthful than other kinds of work that 

 women do. 



East Otisfield. Maine. 



The Manure Spreader 



SOIL may be likened to a dish con- 

 taining plant food, and the degree 

 to which it is able to respond to the 

 demands of the hungry plant is the meas- 

 ure of its productive capacity. Every 

 man should know his soil, just as tho 

 successful stockman is familiar with the 

 animals comprising his herds or flocks. 

 Stockmen who do not understand the 

 nature of their cows and sheep and hogs 

 frequently waste incalculable amounts of 

 feed. They overfeed, perhaps, or they 

 feed that which the animal does not readily 

 assimilate and turn into flesh or milk or 

 muscle. So with our soils, we must 

 study them well, and come to know their 

 particular needs. The three principal 

 elements of soil fertility are phosphorus, 

 potassium and nitrogen. Where one or 

 more of these elements are lacking crops 

 will suffer to just the degree in which 

 they are deficient. Study your soil, 



for the plants — a primary step to success. 



Some soils that contain large quantities 



of fertility have it locked up so tightly in 



a compact mass that ii is not available 



for the plant's use. Nothing will more 

 effectively open up such soil and make its 

 stores of food available than coarse 

 manure, liberally applied. This will 

 furnish humus, and humus warms up the 

 soil by opening it to the air and sun, 

 making it friable and amenable to the 

 action of the roots of the plants. Loose 

 soil requires smaller quantities and does 

 better when given the perfectly decayed 

 manure, all ready to yield its richness 

 upon demand to waiting vegetation. 



Nothing else will so quickly and so 

 surely improve the mechanical condition 

 of the soil as barnyard manure. This 

 suggests the great value of this by-product 

 of the farm. Yet because it is a by- 

 product, the average farmer fails to realize 

 the need of economy in its use. To get 

 itsfullvalueitis essential that it be properly 

 applied. And it has a cash value when 

 so applied that has been found by some 

 of the Experiment stations to reach as 

 high as $3.25 a ton. But if it be im- 

 properly applied, much of this value is 

 lost. For instance, as the manure can be 

 of little value to the plants until it has 

 been dissolved by moisture and taken up 

 by the film which surrounds the soil 

 grains, how wasteful it must be to throw 

 great forksful haphazard over the field, 

 piling it up here, leaving bare spaces there. 



For years we scattered all manure 

 from wagons, using a common fork. 



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