THE STRAWBERRY APRIL 1907 



original stock intact. Education is the 

 only thing that one can sell or give away 

 and still retain." 



T^OR the benefit of those of our readers 

 *■ who cannot take advantage of the agri- 

 cultural colleges by becoming students 

 therein, but who yet may enjoy to the full 

 the suggestive and helpful literature that 

 comes from the presses of those institu- 

 tions, we give herewith a list of addresses 

 of the Agricultural Colleges of the United 

 States, and the address of the Canadian 

 Experimental Farms, hoping that our 

 readers will at once write to their respect- 

 ive institutions and thus put themselves 

 in the way to receive a large amount of 

 invaluable literature on up-to-date agri- 

 culture in its various branches. 



Alabama — Auburn; Normal; Uniontown; Tus- 

 kegee. 



Alaska — Sitka. 



Arizona — Tucson. 



Arkansas — Fayettev iUe. 



California — Berkeley. 



Colorado — Fort Collins. 



Connecticut — New Haven; Storrs. 



Delaware — Newark; Dover. 



Dominion of Canada — Experimental Farms, 

 Ottawa, Ont. 



Florida — Lake City; Tallahassee. 



Georgia — Athens; Experiment; College. 



Hawaiian Islands — Honolulu. 



Idaho — Moscow. 



Illinois — Urbana. 



Indiana — Lafayette. 



Iowa — Ames. 



Kansas — Manhattan. 



Kentucky — Lexington; Frankfort. 



Louisiana — Baton Rouge; New Orleans; Cal- 

 houn. 



Maine — Orono. 



Maryland — College Park; Princess Anne. 



Massachusetts — Amherst, 



Michigan — Agricultural College. 



Minnesota — St. Anthony Park, St. Paul. 



Mississippi — Agricultural College; West Side. 



Missouri — Columbia; Mountain Grove; Jeffer- 

 son City- 

 Montana — Bozeman. 



Nebraska — Lincoln. 



Nevada — Reno. 



New Hampshire — Durham. 



New Jersey — New Brunswick. 



New Mexico — Mesilla Park. 



New York — Genev'a; Ithaca. 



North Carolina — West Raleigh; Greensboro. 



North Dakota — Agricultural College. 



Ohio — Columbus; Wooster. 



Oklahoma — Stillwater; Langston. 



Oregon — Corvallis. 



Pennsylvania — State College. 



Porto Rico — Mayaguez. 



Rhode Island — Kingston. 



South Carolina — Clemson College; Orangeburg. 



South Dakota — Brookings. 



Tennessee — Knoxville. 



Texas — College Station; Prairie View. 



Utah — Logan. 



Vermont — Burlington. 



Virginia — Blacksburg; Hampton. 



Washington — Pullman. 



West Virginia — Morgantown; Institute. 



Wisconsin — Madison. 



Wyoming — Laramie. 



"VVTHEN you buy fertilizers, what do 

 " you buy them for.? To get three 

 elements of plant food: nitrogen, phos- 

 phoric acid and potash; that is all you buy 

 them for. If you can manage to get them 

 without buying them, would not that be 



better.'' We have never bought them, de- 

 clares T. B. Terry. We have grown fifty 

 bushels wheat on a measued field; got it by 

 growing clover in regular rotation, giving 

 an unusual amount of tillage and by using 

 all the liquid and solid manure on the land. 

 You can do it too. In the South where 

 clover cannot be grown, cowpeas will ac- 

 complish the same thing. 



The Family Strawberry Patch 



APRIL suns and April showers tell us 

 that spring once more is here, and 

 the thought of all nature lovers 

 goes instinctively to the garden where the 

 beauty of flowers and the delight of all 

 vegetation attracts as nothing else can do. 

 Only a few days more and the earth will 

 be robed in its carpet of green, the trees 

 will once more be clothed in rich foliage, 

 and all nature will be in action. It is the 

 time for planting things in preparation for 

 the harvest that is to come later on. It 

 requires little imagination to appreciate 

 the value of action now if we would have 

 desired results in the months that are to 

 come, and in no other direction may one 

 accomplish so much by so little effort as 

 in the setting out of a patch of strawberry 

 plants. It matters not how restricted one's 

 quarters, whether it be in city or town, or 

 out upon the farm, the strawberry thrives 

 and pays largely upon the investment of 

 time devoted to its cultivation and care. 

 No one should be without a strawberry 

 patch. It means pleasure and health and 

 economy. If you are at last to have that 

 long-deferred family strawberry patch, you 

 must be about it soon, or another year will 

 have passed without its delights. 



Any soil that will grow a crop of corn 

 or potatoes will give excellent results with 

 strawberries. One must put the soil in 

 fine tilth, however, and this is not a work 

 requiring either great skill or muscle or a 

 large expenditure of time, in the case of a 

 family garden. Spade the rich soil deeply, 

 and then hoe it and rake it until it is as fine 

 as an ash heap; then it will be in readiness 

 to receive the plants. If it be very light it 

 would be well to roll it firm before the 

 plants are set, and if it is a heavy soil it 

 should be lightly gone over with a roller. 



Place your rows of plants three feet apart 

 and set them in your family garden about 

 eighteen inches apart in the row. We 

 think the double-hedge row the better 

 plan, as it makes better use of the ground 

 than the single-hedge row. The double- 

 hedge row is made by layering four runner 

 plants at oblique angles with the mother 

 plant, making when complete an X with 

 the mother plant at the center. 



It goes without saying that you must 

 have good plants, and our advice is to get 

 the very best plants it is possible to secure 

 at no matter what cost, as there is neither 

 pleasure nor profit in working with poor or 

 indifferent plants. 



The soil being prepared and the plants 

 in readiness, take a dibble and run it into 

 the ground fully six inches deep, pressing 

 it from you so as to make an opening suf- 

 ficiently large to take in all of the roots of 

 the plant when spread fan-shape. The 

 roots should be kept as straight as possible. 

 Draw out the dibble and thrust it into the 

 earth some two inches from the opening 

 in which you have placed the plant, and 

 draw it toward you. This will pack the 

 earth firmly against the roots of the plant, 



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