THE STRAWBERRY MAY 1906 



them clean and well manured and when 

 the ground freezes up next ^fall cover 

 them with a little strawy manure and in 

 the early spring rake it away from the 

 plants. Mr. Gregg, of Minnesota, who 

 says he can grow strawberries cheaper 

 than he can potatoes, and judging from 

 the strawberries we have seen growing on 

 his farm, we believe he can come pretty 

 close to it, plants his rows very wide 

 apart and piles straw between so deep 

 that no weeds grow and the ground is 

 always moist, but good surface cultiva- 

 tion will do it. 



Poultry With Strawberries 



SPEAKING of the advantages of 

 combining the raising of poultry 

 with the growing of strawberries, a 

 writer in the Albany (N. Y.) Journal de- 

 clares it to be one of the most profitable 

 of combinations and continues; 



"When one speaks of poultry in con- 

 nection with any low-growing plant most 

 people can see only the scratching birds 

 and the ruined plants, but the combina- 

 tion has been and is being profitably car- 

 ried out. If one selects one of the larger 

 breeds of hens for this combination the 

 scratching part of the proposition will be 

 reduced to a minimum, and if the fowls 

 are not required to obtain their entire liv- 

 ing from the patch of strawberry plants, 

 they will do comparatively little damage. 

 It is, of course, understood that the fowls 

 are not allowed on the patch until after 

 the fruit has been gathered, but from that 

 time until they go into winter quarters, 

 they will be exceedingly useful, for they 

 will take good care of all the insects, do 

 little damage in the way of scratching, 

 which can be readily repaired by going 

 over the plot each day, and their drop- 

 pings will add materially to the richness 

 of the plot. 



"If the plantation covers a considerable 

 area it will be a good plan to have several 

 small colony houses on the plot so that 

 the hens may have their own quarters and 

 thus work over a smaller area. The 

 profit from this combination is good and 

 neither will interfere with the other, es- 

 pecially if the fowls are raised for egg 

 production. Try it on a small scale and 

 increase as experience proves it pays." 



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TH E manner in which strawberries are 

 shipped from the South is interesting. 

 Large boxes, substantially built, are con- 

 structed to hold between sixty-four and 

 eighty quarts of berries. The berries are 

 placed in the bottom of the case, and at 

 the top are two large pans, into which 

 ice is placed. Cold air being heavier 

 than warm air, the atmosphere in which 

 the berries lay preserves them until they 

 reach their destination, and they are 

 usually in perfect condition. The first 



shipments of strawberries reach the North 

 about January 1. The New York and 

 Chicago markets usually take them, and 

 the price is between $1 and $1.25 a 

 quart. They are shipped by express, and 

 about four days is allowed for transporta- 

 tion from the extreme south to the most 

 northerly states. 



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NEW JERSEY is famous for many 

 things, but just now its strawberry 

 stories are among its most interesting 

 products. Here is the latest, which one 

 will do well to accept with certain reser- 

 vations, even though he may hope it shall 

 prove true: "Fresh strawberries each 

 month in the year from the same plant is 

 the wonder produced by Henry Jorale- 

 mon, who recently returned from Califor- 

 nia, where he compared notes with Bur- 

 bank, the plant wizard, and says his new 

 monthly bearing plant is practical, and 

 may be successfully cultivated by any 

 one. The ultimate result will be to 

 place fresh strawberries on the table at 

 Christmas as well as in June, all from 

 the same plant. It was because he want- 

 ed a certain hardy strawberry plant to 

 cross with his present plant that he spent 

 the summer in the West, and journeyed 

 2,000 miles north of Seattle. It was in 

 this chilly climate that Mr. Joralemon 

 found the plant he sought." 



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Learning the Better Way 



By George R. Kasey 



MY experience in the strawberry 

 business is not long; but will tell 

 you about it anyway. On my 

 first attempt I set nine rows about thirty 

 hills long and let them mat in the rows. 

 I did not keep the runners cut off as 

 should have been done, but fought grass 

 and weeds. My health being bad I wor- 

 ried about it and began to think the straw- 

 berry business wasn't the thing it was 

 cracked up to be. 



When picking time came I kept an ac- 

 count of every quart sold and they brought 

 me $29.50. Just think; ofF of nine little 

 rows! I was so well pleased that the 

 next year I went into it with more energy. 

 I set about three times as many as I did 

 the first year — over-did the thing a little. 

 I had all the work to do myself so I 

 could not work them so well as I did the 

 first, but did the best I could and my 

 second little crop brought me $55. 



I was tolerably well pleased, but might 

 have been better if I had known the proper 

 way of cultivating them. I thought I 

 knew a little about how to grow straw- 

 berries until 1 read your instructions. 

 Now I see it was little I knew, sure 

 enough. I would not take $10 for what 

 I already have learned through The 

 Strawberry. 



Leslie, Va. 



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