THE STRAWBERRY FEBRUARY 1907 



their labels, but it is not any infringement 

 on ours, neither does it do us any hurt in 

 the market. We are making it our main 

 aim to grow a high grade of berries and 

 pack them so they will be attractive in the 

 market. 



It never paid to top the top boxes and 

 places inferior fruit at the bottom, but the 

 time has come when city people will not 

 pay for inferior fruit, but must have a 

 guarantee of quality, and after a certain 

 brand has proved satisfactory they will in- 

 sist upon having it at almost any price. 

 So we must have fine berries or go out of 

 business. 



We have found one very good way to 

 grow strawberries is to sow rye in the fall 

 and put a light coat of fine manure as a 

 top dressing in the early winter and then 

 plow it under the last of March; then 

 pulverize it finely and set the plants. 



We have a field that was a timothy sod 

 and as soon as we had the hay off last July 

 we turned it down and sowed it to rye on 

 September 10 and are going to set it in 

 plants in early April with Pride of Mich- 

 igan, Dornan, Otto, and New York, and 

 intend to grow them in the double-hedge 



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row system. We expect a bumper crop. 

 We had a heavy frost last May which 

 nearly destroyed our best bed, as it was 

 on low land and near a swamp. Where 

 we were expecting anywhere from 175 to 

 200 crates to the acre, we got twenty-five 

 crates, and they were of poor quality. 



Bridgeton, N. J. 



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The White Grub in Quebec 



By Chas. S. Moore 



THERE is one point in regard to the 

 treatment of soil infected with white 

 grubs which, I believe, has been 

 overlooked by The Strawberrj'. Possibly 

 it does not apply to Michigan, but from 

 what I gather in reading your valuable 

 little magazine, I doubt if your climate is 

 much less severe than that of southern 

 Quebec. I feel that I can speak with 

 some authority in regard to our friends 

 the enemy, for I have suffered loss at 

 their hands — or rather their mouths — to 

 the tune of about $400, as nearly as I can 

 estimate. In fact, a bed of nearly two 

 acres was all but ruined by them. So 

 you see, I am in the position of the boy 

 who had broken his leg; from the mere 

 fact of his greater sufferings, he felt a cer- 

 tain amount of superiority over his fellows. 

 Now let me point out a few of my mis- 

 takes, which may possibly be a warning 

 to others. 



Mistake No. 1 was in planting straw- 

 berries two years after clover, a crop of 

 corn intervening. In the future I shall 

 plow for at least three consecutive seasons 

 before setting to strawberries, except in 

 the case of the old beds known to be free 

 from the pest. This will give time for 

 every grub to mature and come forth a 

 plundering June-bug, if he were so for- 



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