THE STRAWBERRY MARCH 1907 



time the larvse hatch and feed upon the 

 leaf, gnawing small circular holes. In five 

 or six weeks they develop into pale green 

 worms; they are then about three-fourths 

 of an inch long, very much resembling the 

 rose sulg. In a few days they go slightly 

 beneath the surface, where they form co- 

 coons, within which they change to the 

 pupal state and later emerge as flies. In 

 your locality there will be only one brood 

 each season, while in Southern states 

 there usually are two broods each season. 

 As a rule they are more liable to injure 

 a young, non-fruiting plantation, which 

 makes it easy to destroy them by spray- 

 ing with Paris green. See recipe in arti- 

 cle on spraying strawberry plants in this 

 issue. In localities where second brood 

 of larvae appears, they will sometimes 

 bother the vines while in fruit, and in this 

 case we recommend pyrethrum or insect 

 powder. Burning the field over after the 

 fruit is picked will help to hold this insect 

 in check. 



From a member whose address is mislaid. In 

 making a propagating bed, shall I use the hill 

 system in setting out the plants? 



2. Shall I allow runners to set the first year? 



3. How many runners shall I allow each 

 plant to make? 



4. How many years may I take plants from 

 the bed? 



In setting plants for propagating pur- 

 poses they should have more room than 

 when set for fruiting. Make the rows 

 four feet apart and set plants three feet 

 apart in the row. 



2. Yes; allow runners to form the first 

 year they are set out. If the mother 

 plant is strong and growing vigorously, 

 the first runners that form may be layered, 

 but if not strong, relieve it of the first 

 runners that form. This will throw more 

 strength to the mother plant, and in a few 

 days it will be sending out more runners 

 of better quality. 



3. Each mother plant may be allowed 

 to make all the strong runners that form. 



4. One year only. 



Mrs. j. G. O., Delaware, Ohio. About how 

 many strawberry baskets (quart baskets) woulil 

 be required for an ordinary crop of strawber- 

 ries on one-quarter acre? 



2. How close to the strawberry plant ought 

 the cultivator run in cultivating the plants the 

 second year? 



From the tone of some letters we are 

 getting these days, we scarcely know what 

 to say, as some of the writers report 

 as high as 10,000 and even 12,000 quarts 

 per acre. If your plants were in good 

 condition when you mulched them last 

 fall it would be unsafe for you to figure 

 on less than fifteen or eighteen hundred 

 quart boxes. Before ordering it will be 

 well to inquire whether your trade prefers 

 sixteen-quart or twenty-four quart crates. 



If it be sixteen, then order one hundred 

 crates and sixteen hundred quart boxes, 

 and if it is twenty-four-quart crates, you 

 then should order sixty-five crates. 



2. If the operator has complete con- 

 trol over his cultivator and watches it 

 closely, the teeth may be run up to within 

 one inch of the plants; but before culti- 

 vating so closely as this, the tooth next to 

 the plant should be filed Idown to one 

 inch shorter than the other teeth. This 

 is to keep it from cutting the roots of the 

 plants. 



E. S., Lady smith, Quebec. Please let me know 

 if the Canadian field peas grow long or short 

 and how much to sow to the acre? Are they 

 the common field peas that are generally used 

 for sowing? 



The Canadian field pea on good soil 

 will grow about three feet high, and as 

 they ripen they generally fall flat on the 

 ground. The quantity you should sow 

 to the acre will depend somewhat upon 

 the size of the seed. About five pecks 

 of ordinary seed will be sufficient. They 



are the common field pea, but not the 

 pea used in gardens. This year we shall 

 do some experimenting. We shall sow 

 one bushel of peas and a half-bushel of 

 corn to the acre, having in view the hold- 

 ing up of the peas by the corn, so that 

 they will turn under more easily as well 

 as rnaking more humus. 



J. M. B., Franklin, Ind. As this is my first 

 experience in the berry business, I don't know 

 what size berry box or crate to order. A cat- 

 alogue I have from a box manufacturer gives 

 two sizes of boxes — the wine and the full 

 quart. Which shall I order? One manufac- 

 turer says that nine-tenths of their orders are 

 for the wine measure. Now it seems to me 

 that the scant quart is an injustice both to 

 the seller and the buyer. 



By all means use the dry or full quart 

 measure, pack them honestly and attract- 

 ively and sell your berries on their merit 

 and not in competition with other berries. 

 We congratulate you on your honorable 

 way of looking at this matter. A man 

 never will fail in any business in which 



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