THE STRAWBERRY NOVEMBER 1906 



enue from a small area of land and a lit- 

 tle cash investment. It is a hopeful pic- 

 ture Mr. Bolt presents of the large op- 

 portunity to the man of small means thus 

 opened by the limitless held of strawberry 

 production. 



Nine Hundred Dollars from an 

 Acre of Strawberries 



By H. Walter 



I LIKE The Strawberry very much, 

 but in reading it I fail to find any 

 reports from Canada. Perhaps your 

 readers on the other side have an idea 

 that we can't grow strawberries worth 

 mentioning over here, but I think I can 

 convince them that we can. I grew 

 strawberries this year at the rate of $900 

 to the acre. Fifteen berries of the Wil- 

 liam Belt variety filled a quart box, and 

 some of them measured seven and a half 

 inches in circumference. One plant had 

 on it by actual count, 150 berries. 



For the first time I fruited Parson's 

 Beauty this season, and they were a sight 

 worth looking at. I felt repaid for all 

 my labor and was very proud of the 

 results. 



I grow plants by the hill culture, and 

 have William Belts that measure thirty- 

 three inches across, and Parsons' Beauty 

 as large as from twenty-two to twenty- 

 eight inches. 



I am compelled through poor health to 

 quit my trade (shoemaker) and have de- 

 cided to go into fruit and gardening. 



I have bought fifteen acres near one of 

 the best towns in Canada. I am within a 

 few miles of one town with a population 

 of 13,000 and another about 4,000. 



I am greatly taken up with the growing 

 of small fruit, especially strawberries, and 

 I am quite satisfied that I will make a 

 success in the business. 



Bright, Ont. 



There is no doubt of success! The 

 man who lays down the hammer and 

 dwl to go into strawberry culture and 

 make such a showing as this correspon- 

 dent has done, need not fear to leave any 

 other line of work for the strawberry field. 

 Such reports from the amateurs not only 

 stir the professionals into greater activity 

 and to adopt better methods, but they 

 hearten everybody and prove what we so 

 confidently repeat from month to month, 

 namely, that there is no other field that 

 offers so great opportunity to the person 

 of limited means as does strawberry pro- 

 duction. Mr. Walter indicates how great 

 are the possibilities from one acre of 

 perfectly developed and perfectly culti- 

 vated plants. No one pretends he could 

 have accomplished such results from poor 

 plants that received scant attention. But 

 it's worth while, from the doUar-and-cents 

 viewpoint, to devote thought and labor to 

 a line of work that will produce $900 

 from a single acre of land. And with 



two good towns within reach from his 

 fifteen-acre fruit farm, we shall expect to 

 hear fine reports from Mr. Walter. And 

 that his health will be benefited by the 

 change there is equal certainty. We hope 

 that ten thousand of our good friends who 

 are looking for a profitable vocation may 

 follow this worthy example. — Editor The 

 Strawberry. 



Spring the Time to Plant 



ONE of the readers of The Straw- 

 berry recently objected with un- 

 seemly heat and vigor to the po- 

 sition taken by this magazine relative to 

 summer and fall planting for strawberries. 

 It is therefore with added pleasure that 

 we quote from Franklin Brown, who, in 

 replying to an inquiry from a subscriber 

 to the Wisconsin Farmer, thus treats this 

 subject: 



"The proper time to set strawberry 

 plants is in the spring as early as the 

 ground is in condition to be worked. 

 Much has been said and written in regard 

 to planting in the summer and fall, and 

 many attempts have been made in this 

 direction with the same almost universal 

 result — failure. 



"The strawberry needs the whole sea- 

 son in which to establish a good root sys- 

 tem and build up fruit crowns. Plants 



set in the summer do not have this op- 

 portunity and therefo.e fail to be pro- 

 ductive. 



"The strawberry plant v.hich is taken 

 up and set out has two functions to per- 

 form, both of which it can do well if it 

 has the entire season. The first function 

 is to make crowns with which to bear 

 fruit the following season. The other is 

 to become the mother of other plants by 

 means of its runners. A plant set in June 

 or later cannot fulfill both these functions, 

 and weak crowns and weak plants are the 

 result. 



"As for using plants which have 

 fruited, this should not be done. An old 

 strawberry plant has a tough, woody root 

 which cannot support the plant and allow 

 it to perform its work. In digging straw- 

 berry plants the old ones may easily be 

 recognized by this condition of the roots, 

 and such should always be rejected." 



Referring to failures made in the grow- 

 ing of strawberries, Mr. Brown says: 

 "From my own experience and observa- 

 tion I can say that the cause of nearly 

 every failure is the failure to observe some 

 cardinal rule of proper berry culture. In 

 this connection it perhaps would be well 

 to lay down the precept that he who 

 would raise strawberries should plant 

 only strong young plants in early spring 

 and give them the best possible cultiva- 

 tion and attention." 



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