THE STRAWBERRY FEBRUARY 1907 



day these fine plants were put to bed 

 under a nice clean blanket of straw, and 

 as I sit by my warm fire these long win- 

 ter evenings visions of big, luscious straw- 

 berries come before me. And I feel that 

 these visions will be a reality next June, 

 if Jack Frost will stay away and the 

 weather is seasonable. 



I had much advice and many sugges- 

 tions from my friends as to how I should 

 care for my strawberry bed, but I always 

 told them that I was going according to 

 instructions in The Strawberry and could 

 not change my way of doing things. Why 

 these friends made suggestions was always 

 rather puzzling to me, because they in- 

 variably said my bed was the finest one 

 they ever saw. 



I am now planning to set another bed 

 in the spring and I expect to give it the 

 same careful attention that I have given 

 this year's bed. 



I am a rural mail carrier, and as my 

 salary for this work is rather meager, I 

 shall expect my strawberry beds to greatly 

 help my yearly income, and I feel that I 

 shall not be disappointed. 



WellsvUle, Kan. 



A Long Strawberry Season 



By Samuel Cooper 



1HAVE been interested in the articles 

 in The Strawberry giving personal 

 experiences in strawberry growing, 

 and thought that my last year's experience 

 might be of interest to some of your read- 

 ers. 



Plants did not come through the winter 

 very well in this section; they were thinned 

 by the "heaving out" of the weaker plants, 

 in some cases so many dying that the 

 fields were plowed up in the spring. The 

 fields however, which had been well 

 mulched in the fall came out fairly well, 

 and blossomed heavily, but about May 15 

 a hard frost came, killing many of the 

 blossoms. Enough of mine escaped to 

 furnish a fair crop of extra-fine berries 

 which sold at 15 cents per quart for the 

 first two or three pickings, then at 12 

 cents after grading out the smaller ones, 

 which sold at 10 cents per quart for can- 

 ning berries; so, on the whole, results were 

 not unsatisfactory. 



My last picking of the spring crop was 

 July 12. The last of July I commenced 

 picking the fall crop for our own table use, 

 and August 3 made the first shipment to 

 Buffalo. From that time I shipped two 

 or three times a week until October 10, 

 when we had the big snow storm, followed 

 by a hard freeze, which I thought would 

 surely finish them. 



October 17 was warm and plesantand, 

 •as some berries were wanted for a wedding 

 in town, I got the pickers out in the hope 

 that they might find perhaps five or six 

 quarts of berries protected by the leaves 

 from the snow and frost. They picked 



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thirty-five quarts that graded eighteen 

 quarts of fancy berries. I thought that 

 this would surely be the last picking, but 

 October 24 we picked thirty-seven quarts, 

 eighteen quarts of which I shipped to the 

 Broezel House in Buffalo; the balance were 

 sold in the local market. After that we 

 had a freeze that froze all the green ber- 

 ries hard. The vines were quite well 

 filled with green fruit, and if the weather 

 had been as usual I could have picked for 

 two weeks longer. 



I have been raising fall berries for seven 

 years. On four different years they fur- 

 nished us with a shortcake on election day, 

 and one year I picked four quarts on the 

 13th of November. I find that if the 

 frost gets my spring berries I am still sure 

 of strawberries from my own fields for from 

 eighty to one hundred days in the year. 



Delevan^ N. Y. 



Page 34 



EVERYBODY engaged in horticulture knows 

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 illustrations and helpful directions and sugges- 

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 Biggie's books are published by Wilmer Atkin- 

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