THE STRAWBERRY DECEMBER 1906 



you to carry forward an enterprise to 

 which that soil and that location are 

 adapted. If you are all right, depend 

 upon it that nature will do her part to- 

 ward winning success. 



Received His Dollar's Worth 

 Many Times Over 



By Arthur F. Jones 



I FEEL as though I had neglected to 

 write to a very dear friend, for I cer- 

 tainly hold The Strawberry very dear, 

 and would sing its praises loud and long. 

 One gets such inspiration from it. If a 

 man is getting a little heedless or tired — 

 isn't paying just the attention to his straw- 

 berry patch that he ought — along comes 

 The Strawberry and acts as a revival to a 

 fellow; gives him renewed powers and 

 energy to get right after those runners and 

 weeds and stir up a dust mulch; he gets 

 out with his sprayer and at it. 



I have thouglit several times to write 

 you to ask some questions, but would al- 

 ways find in The Strawberry someone 

 asking the same ones and, getting tbe 

 benefit of your answers to him, would 

 not write. Really, I have had my dollar's 

 worth over and over again. 



My plants came last spring in fine con- 

 dition, but they did not find me in as fine 

 condition to receive them. I\Iy ground 

 was not ready, neither could I get it 

 ready, but I did as you recommended 

 and heeled them in; they were left so for 

 twenty-five days. The eighth or ninth 

 day we had a real hard freeze, but I had 

 them covered with straw and that cold 

 spell lasted for three or four days, and 1 

 thought that they might smother. Four 

 or five nights la"er came a very heavy 

 frost and, not expecting it, did not have 

 them covered, and the crowns were all 

 turned black and the leaves yellow. 



A neighbor of mine had been guying 

 me for sending away after plants when I 

 could get them right here for a little or 

 nothing, and really had plenty of my own. 

 Well, how he laughed when he saw 

 them! And I did feel a little blue my- 

 self; but when the time came to set them 

 out, I certainly was surprised. I thought 

 half of them were dead (they were mixed 

 up"some with the straw; of course, I had 

 taken it ofT as best I could) but there 

 were only two out of the thousand that 

 were dead. 



I set them out and my! how they did 

 brace up and grow! I think they must 

 have been endowed with some of the en- 

 thusiasm that comes with The Straw- 

 berry. I have kept them strictly to the 

 double-hedge row, only in August the 

 weeds and runners got a little the best of 

 me. You see I have half an acre in all 

 that I set out this spring, and I am paint- 

 ing for a livelihood. During August I 

 was on two or three jobs out of town that 

 I could not get away from. But when 



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Page 243 



the September Strawberry came, I read 

 it that night, and the ne.\t morning I told 

 the boys I was not going painting. I got 

 after those weeds and cleaned them o;,t 

 thoroughly, and took a pair of shears and 

 cut every runner, and ail small plants 

 that had formed on the matted plants and 

 on the plants that formed my ideal row. 

 I have been through them six or eight 

 times since and cut off every surplus run- 

 ner and kept them well cultivated and 

 free from weeds, and how they have 

 started up and made fruit crowns! 



There are two or three questions that 

 I would like to ask: 



1. Are there any paying results ob- 

 tained from applying fertilizer in the early 

 spring to the bed I expect to pick from 

 that year.? That is customary around 

 here. Would it pay to repeat the appli- 

 cation a little later.? 



2. Not being able to get at them to 

 cultivate again is there any benefit derived, 

 or harm done, by putting straw between 

 the rows at this time.? The bed being in 

 good shape, free from weeds, and just 

 after a rain, I just sprinkled fine manure 

 between the rows also. 



Wells, Vermont, 



Answering your first question, we note 

 that you say in the second that you have 

 scattered fine manure between the rows. 

 This, with the mineral matter already in 

 the soil, should supply the plants amply 

 with plant food with no addit onal ferti- 

 lizer. It does not pay to apply any ferti- 

 lizer on the fruiting bed in the spring just 

 be'^ore berries ripen, as little of it would 

 become available quickly enough to have 

 any effect. 



2. The placing of straw or mulching 

 between the rows at this time will be of 

 large benefit to your plants, and as your 

 ground is entirely free from weeds you 

 may do this without a moment's hesita- 

 tion. And the plants themselves may be 

 covered any time after freezing. In fact, 

 this is an ideal way, but we do no; 

 recommend it, as it increases the expense, 

 of course, to mulch at two different times. 



A Trifle Absent Minded 



Mrs. Schoppen: "I want five pounds 

 of sugar, please." 



Grocer: "Yes'm; anything else.?" 



Mrs. Schoppen: "No, that's all; I'll 

 take it with me if it isn't too heavy a 

 package. 



Grocer: "Oh, it'll only weigh three 

 or four pounds, ma'am," — Philadelphia 

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TRAVELERS tell us, as an evidence 

 of the hardiness of the strawberry, 

 that it is found clinging to the snow-cov- 

 ered Alps, where it is said to ripen to 

 perfection. The friend who found ripe 

 strawberries peeping out through the snow 



