THE STRAWBERRY OCTOBER 1906 



deep rooters and will stand a lot of 

 dry, hot weather. And all are splendid 

 fruiters as well. 



J. B. H., Stoutsville, Ohio. I have a piece of 

 ground which is partly a black loam, the 

 balance being a mixture of clay and sand, the 

 clay predominating. This land has been in 

 onions for two seasons. I have a part of it 

 now growing to cov\'peas, which I shall turn 

 under just before frost. Will sow balance of 

 my ground to rye. What I want to know is: 

 Would you advise me to plow my rye under 

 late this fall or wait until next spring? I want 

 to put some stable manure on .the ground 

 during the winter months. 



The purpose served by rye is to take 

 up the plant food which is bound to be 

 leached out by winter rains and snows. 

 Just as soon as the ground thaws during 

 the winter the roots of the rye begin ab- 

 sorbing the available plant food, holding 

 it in reserve for the strawberry plants dur- 

 ing the following spring. The rve also 

 serves a valuable purpose in preventing 

 washing and puddling of the soil. Spread 

 the manure on top of the rye, and it will 

 find its way up through the manure. 



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W. H. B., LaBelle, Mo. I have a plot of 

 ground which is in garden truck this year and 

 I want to set it to strawberries next spring if 

 nothing happens. I had part of the ground 

 in strawberries about three or four years ago, 

 and this year is the second crop of garden 

 truck since I had strawberries on it It had a 

 tolerably heavy coat of stable manure on it 

 this spring and I put in corn, potatoes, beans, 

 tomatoes and truck, and these are growing on 

 the ground now. I want to plow the ground 

 this fall. Would you advise putting another 

 thin coat of manure on it this fall before it is 

 plowed? 



2. Would you advise using commercial fer- 

 tilizers on the ground next spring? Would 

 you advise replowing the ground in the spring 

 but not as deep as this fall, or work it down 

 as it is left this fall? I have asked two or 

 three travelling salesmen for wholesale drug 

 companies about nitrate of potash, and they 

 did not seem to know anything about it. So 

 I would like to know where I can get it. 



I am always anxious for each number of The 

 Strawberry to arrive, as there are always some 

 very instructive and interesting articles in each 

 issue. I don't see how anyone who grows 

 strawberries can do without the paper. 



The fact that vegetables have been 

 grown upon the ground is evidence of its 

 good condition. Give it a light coat of 

 manure this fall; then turn it under about 

 four inches deep. If this work c:ui be 

 done early enough so that rye still may 

 be sown and grown, we should do so. 

 Next spring plow this piece of ground, 

 going about six or seven inches deep, and 

 as the manure had been turned under 

 but four inches, breaking it seven inches 

 deep in the spring will leave it nearly in 



the center of the broken earth, and this 

 will make it very easy to mix it into the 

 soil with harrow or disc. 



2. You doubtless meant nitrate of 

 soda rather than nitrate of potash. The 

 former may be obtained from any fertil- 

 izer company. \Vrite Swift & Co., Chi- 

 cago; 111., mentioning The Strawberry, 

 and you will receive full information con- 

 cerning it and all other fertilizers partic- 

 ularly adapted to the strawberry. Barn- 

 yard manure is the best thing for straw- 

 berries, but well-balanced commercial 

 fertilizers will serve you well if the stable 

 manure is not available. 



S. B. R.. EUott, Iowa. I enclose herewith a 

 sample of the leaves on my strawberry bed. 

 This is the third time they have gone the way 

 this sample has this season. I have sprayed 

 them with the mixture of lime and Paris green 

 four times; forawhileeach time they seemed to 

 do well, but would get as this sample in from 

 two weeks to a month afterwards. We have 

 had an exceedingly dry August, the ground 

 is very rich, and my wife says that I have 

 killed them by too much cultivation. There 

 are no weeds in sight anywhere about the bed. 

 I know that it is not the fault of the original 

 plants, for every plant lived till a mole dis- 

 turbed a few and then this trouble came, or 

 something similar, twice before. 1 did find 

 quite a good many webs among the plants 

 prior to the dry hot August, but none since 

 the last spray. I have kept the runners as di- 

 rected. Three times since the dry hot weather 

 of August we have given them a good wet- 

 ting down with the hose. Twice we have 

 used the suds from the Monday wash to help 

 them to moisture. I shall be very much 

 obliged if you can tell me what to do. 



The specimen leaves indicate that your 

 plants are affected with mildew and rust. 

 We note that you have sprayed them 

 with Paris green and lime. This would 

 have no effect on the rust or mildew. 

 This is a fungi and can be controlled 

 only by the use of Bordeaux mixture, 

 which is made by dissolving four pounds 

 of blue vitriol in twenty gallons of water, 

 and four pounds of lump lime slaked in 

 three gallons of hot water. Then add 

 enough water to the lime to make twenty 

 gallons. After this has thoroughly cooled, 

 combine the lime solution with the blue 

 vitriol which will make forty gallons in 

 all. Of course, this will not cure any 

 leaves which are affected, but it will pre- 

 vent the healthy leaves from being attacked 

 by this fungi. It is so late now that we 

 doubt if the spraying would do much 

 good, and unless your plants are very 

 badly affected, we would not spray until 

 next spring. Then the first spraying 

 could be made just as growth starts, 

 spraying again before the buds open. It 

 would be rather difficult to give straw- 

 berry plants too much cultivation. We 

 cultivate about five times a month and 

 hoe about twice a month. We note that 



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you have been watering these plants from 

 the hydrant. It is all right to do this in 

 the evening, but do not sprinkle the plants 

 while the sun is shining hot, as this only 

 encourages the fungi spores to spread. 



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C. E. B., West Salem, Ohio. I have a two- 

 acre piece of ground that I wish to put to 

 strawberries next spring. I have it in corn 

 now, but it is so full of the white grub that I 

 am afraid they w ill take all the plants. They 

 worked on the corn badly. Could you give 

 me a plan to treat that ground so as to get rid 

 of them? Would it be a good plan to plow 

 the ground this fall? 



As your ground is infested with white 

 grubs, we urge you to break it up this 

 fall and let the ground remain in a 

 rough condition during the winter months. 

 This will expose the grubs to freezing 

 and also to the attacks of birds. If you 

 have pigs and chickens and your piece of 

 ground is fenced so that you can turn 

 them in on it, they will get most of the 

 grubs by rooting and scratching. Either 

 pigs or chickens will leave corn to eat 

 grubs. This treatment should free your 

 soil from grubs. 



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