THE STRAWBERRY JANUARY 1907 



and we have referred in the past to 

 the extraordinary success of the late- 

 grown strawberries of the Lai<e Superior 

 region. The man who will raise late 

 berries of high quality and send them to 

 market in good condition, has an unlimit- 

 ed opportunity. The market awaits his 

 coming, and if ten thousand of him ap- 

 peared at once still the demand would 

 not be met. 



Then there is another point that must 

 be of great satisfaction to the strawberry 

 grower, and that is the assurance he may 

 feel that if he does his part success will 

 crown his efforts. At a meeting of the 

 Michigan Pomological Society held a few 

 weeks ago at South Haven, the exper- 

 iences of the season were discussed at 

 length and the consensus of opinion was 

 summed up as follows: "Keep a siifF 

 upper lip and raise fewer peaches and 

 more small fruit." This because of the 

 damage done to orchards by the severe 

 Autumnal frosts that were so disastrous 

 over a large section of the country. 



Hard as the year had been upon the 

 strawberry growers, it was inhnitely more 

 serious in the case of orchardists, and out 

 of their sad experiences the latter turn to 

 the growing of strawberries and other 

 small fruits as a source of revenue almost 

 unfailing. 



With such confidence as this fact may 

 inspire, and with the full assurance that if 

 we set out good plants in good soil and 

 give them proper cultivation, we shall 

 harvest an abundant crop of fine fruit; 

 and equally confident that if such fruit be 

 properly picked, packed and brought to 

 market in good condition that an imme- 

 diate demand awaits it at a price insuring 

 a fair profit — with such assurances and 

 with the unlimited opportunities opening 

 up before us, let us enter 1907 resolved 

 to make the most of them and to make a 

 new record for success. And The Straw- 

 berry extends to each and every one its 

 very best wishes for A Happy New Year! 



Lessons From Experience 



By A. D. Stevens 



WORDS don't seem to be strong 

 enough to express my apprecia- 

 tion of The Strawberry: the only 

 regret I have is that it doesn't come often 

 enough. The Correspondence School is 

 of great interest to me. It shows the 

 perplexities of our fellows all over the 

 country and it delights me to see them so 

 fully and, to my mind, satisfactorily ex- 

 plained. I have made a careful study of 

 strawberry culture and know from exper- 

 ience that the advice given is practical. 



We have made it a rule for the last 

 twenty years to get every part of the 

 work done in the fall in preparing ground 

 that could be of any advantage in getting 

 our plants set early in the spring. Usual- 

 ly we set our plants in March, if the 

 V'eather is favorable. A few years ago 



there was a belief in this locality that 

 strawberry plants ought to start a new 

 growth before they were fit to dig and .set 

 out. One farmer said to me: "Well, it 

 is getting time to set strawberries now; 

 they are starting up riicely. Have you 

 begun yet.'^" 



I said to him: "Why, man! it is too 

 late to set plants now; they have broken 

 the callous on the roots now and digging 

 them up will stun them. We have had 

 ours set three weeks." I want my plants 

 set before they wake up, and then, when 



the sun's rays do awaken them, they don't 

 have to be put to sleep on moving day 

 and then pout over it for a week or two. 

 The truth was that while his plants were 

 pouting mine were smiling in their new 

 home and soon made him ashamed of his 

 patch. 



A few years ago I put a patch of plants 

 out in early March. My father said it 

 was too early to set them; that they would 

 likely die. I told him that in order to de- 

 cide which was right I would leave two 

 rows in the middle of the field subject to 



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