THE STRAWBERRY MARCH 1907 



islature. Ohio's annual appropriation for 

 this purpose amounts to $10,000. Every 

 state in the Union should be doing work 

 along this line. The future of the fruit 

 and horticultural interests in general will 

 depend largely upon the way in which 

 this work is performed. 



ONE authority gives the following list 

 of plants affected by the San Jose 

 scale. It is a long one and indicates how 

 general should be the interest taken in 

 this pest by individuals, if for no other 

 reason than the conservation of their own 

 interests. Here is the list: Apple, crab 

 apple, pear, peach, plum, quince, Japan 

 quince, apricot, almond, thorn apple, per- 

 simmon, English walnut, black walnut, 

 Lombardy poplar, Carolina poplar, chest- 

 nut, sumac, catalpa, willows (several spe- 

 cies), osage orange, basswood, ash, dog- 

 wood, elm, lemon, lime, juneberry, alder, 

 laurel, Hawthorne, snowball, hop tree, sil- 

 ver maple, rose, strawberry, raspberry, 

 blackberry, gooseberry, currant, huckle- 

 berry, pecan, cutleaved birch, milkweed, 

 spruce, cedar, grape. 



TOBACCO dust is very useful about 

 the fruit farm. Use it whenever there 

 are insects about the roots of trees. Use 

 it to fumigate in greenhouses or conserv- 

 atories. Make a solution of it to wash 

 infested trees. It is death to the various 

 forms of aphis. 



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EVERY farm in North Dakota (and 

 elswhere) should have a small fruit 

 garden, and especially a strawberry bed," 

 writes W. Truckenmiller in Farm, Stock 

 and Home, and continues: "Strawberries 

 are easy to grow, sure to bear plenty of 

 fruit if well cared for, and when well ri- 

 pened and fresh are the most delicious of 

 all fruits. Any land will grow strawberries, 

 from almost pure sand to the stifTest clay, 

 but of course the better the land, the bet- 

 ter and more thrifty the berries. Now is 

 the time to plan for the strawberry bed. 

 As to the size of the bed, plant plenty; if 

 there are children in the family, one thou- 

 sand plants are none too many." Mr. 

 Truckenmiller lives at Devil's Lake, N. 

 D., and knows from experience how 

 abundantly the strawberry yields in the 

 fertile soil of that great state. His advice 

 should be followed everywhere. 



l^ON'T ever stop it! Send it all the 

 *— ' time. I can always dig up a dollar 

 for a good thing!" writes H. B. Lloyd, of 

 Ferris, Tex., in sending in his renewal for 

 The Strawberry for 1907. And in the 

 same m^il came a letter from a Northern 

 member of the family, A. V. Drown, of 

 Oconomowoc, Wis., in which he says: 

 "I have a full set of The Strawberry for 

 1906. Shall send them to the binder and 

 have them bound for reference. They 

 have been a great help to me the past 

 season. I know of nothing better than 



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