THE STRAWBERRY DECEMBER 1906 



Hauling Out 

 Manure 



importance of ordering your box and crate 

 material right away. Last year thousands 

 of dollars worth of fruit went to waste 

 because the growers neglected until too 

 late to order packages in which to ship 

 the fruit. A few days ago while visiting 

 some of the largest box factories in the 

 country our attention was called to this 

 matter and we were told that many grow- 

 ers were making the mistake of not order- 

 ing their fruit packages until the actual 

 need for their use had come. At that 

 time every factory was flooded with or- 

 ders, everj'body wanting and actually 

 needing the goods at once. This was 

 impossible, and the result was an incal- 

 culable loss and the ruination of some of 

 the fruit growers. Even though you con- 

 sider it too early to order, now is the time 

 to get the catalogues, study the goods and 

 prices, and get your order in early enough 

 to insure your getting the packages you 

 need and at the right time. We certainly 

 do not wish to hear that any reader of 

 The Strawberry has suffered loss through 

 too long postponement of ordering; and 

 we warn you in time that there is real 

 danger in delay. 



A S most growers are too busy to haul 

 •** out manure during the summer 

 months, the work must be postponed until 

 winter, and the earlier it is applied the 

 better. It is not a good 

 plan to leave any ground 

 bare during winter, and 

 there is no better covering than stable 

 manure. We have always noticed that 

 in breaking up ground in the spring the 

 part that had been covered with manure 

 was much mellower than that which had 

 had no covering at all. Did you ever 

 notice the mellow condition of the ground 

 upon which even old straw had been per- 

 mitted to lie during winter? While straw 

 thus improves the mechanical condition 

 of the soil, it adds nothing to it in the way 

 of plant food, but manure not only makes 

 the soil mellow; it adds largely to the fer- 

 tility of the soil. Here are some reasons 

 why it is better to apply the manure early 

 in winter than it is in spring. 1. Your 

 ground is frozen, which prevents the 

 team and wagon from cutting up the sur- 

 face of the soil, which would make no 

 end of trouble in the way of clods. 2. By 

 hauling manure in winter if there is any 

 of the larvas of the white grubs in the 

 manure, it will disturb them and bring 

 them to the surface at just the right time 

 to insure their being killed by freezing. 

 3. It gives the manure longer time to 

 be leached out and its plant food absorbed 

 by soil grains. 4. By doing the work 

 m winter this work is done when the 

 teams have little to do and help easily is 

 secured. We have known growers to 

 leave the manure until spring and then 

 the work was neglected entirely and the 

 manure allowed to remain in the pile for 

 another year. This not only deprived 

 the plants of what belonged to them, but 



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