THE STRAWBERRY MARCH 1907 



thing, and that is going to your neighbor's 

 patches and procuring the plants for your 

 own bed. 



Four years ago we put out our first 

 strawberry patch. I have a personal 

 knowledge of eight other farmers who 

 did likewise, but of the nine we were the 

 only ones who insisted on patronizing the 

 nursery for our plants. The others de- 

 clared it the height of foolishness, and in 

 a few weeks it did look a little like it; for 

 our neighbors' vines grew and thrived 

 most luxurian ly. When fall came there 

 was no apparent difference. "We were 

 silenced, but not convinced. We 



mulched our vines; some of the others 

 did. Our next-door neighbor proposed 

 to convict us of our fanatic theories by 

 leaving his uncovered as nature did the 

 wild berries that he had gathered when a 

 boy. 



The result was as we expected. To- 

 day not one of these patches is in exist- 

 ence. A few of them bore inferior ber- 

 ries. Some patches never had a single 

 berry, though the luxuriant vines produced 

 a picture that would please an artist. 



The yield from our patch the first 

 bearing season was two hundred quarts 

 from originally two hundred plants. We 

 felt well recompensed and encouraged for 

 our venture, but did not anticipate the 

 patch yielding better results another sea- 

 son. But we studied strawberry lore 

 from every available source and put into 

 practice everything that appealed to us as 

 practical, and the result last season was 

 simply stupendous. From this same patch 

 we picked five hundred quarts. We had 

 not anticipated such an outcome and were 

 not prepared with any extra help, so we 

 never got the patch picked clean. The 

 yield was simply beyond an amateur's 

 comprehension. 



When the crop was finished we mowed 

 it off, but could not burn because of the 

 young apple trees, so went through it all 

 with a four-shovel cultivator, using only 

 one shovel on each side. The result 

 looked anything but flattering; but by fall 

 the patch looked like a new one. The 

 long straight rows with paths between 

 promise another crop. However, it will 

 not be our only dependence, for last year 

 we put out four hundred pedigree plants, 

 putting into practice the knowledge we 



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