THE STRAWBERRY APRIL 1907 



after which press the surface with the fin- 

 gers and the crown will be properly firmed 

 into place. In another place in this issue 

 full instructions as to pruning and setting 

 the plants will be found. 



Having only a family natch, you prob- 

 ably will use no other implement in the 

 cultivation of the plants than the hoe. 

 This should be put to use as soon as the 

 plants are fairly set, when every particle 

 of broken crust should be broken up and 

 the surface of the earth kept perfectly fine 

 all the time. And every time there is any 

 rainfall, get your hoe as soon as the water 

 has disappeared from the surface and go 

 to cultivating your plants again. Where 

 this is done no weeds will ever get the 

 start of you, and you will conserve the 

 moisture in the soil and keep your plants 

 continually supplied with plant food. It 

 is marvelous what a hoe will do in the way 

 of producing an immense crop of beautiful 

 rich, ripe strawberries. 



Remedies for the White Grub 



By S. H. Warren 



I HAVE read with much interest Mr. 

 Moore's article in January Strawber- 

 ry on white grubs, also your remarks 

 following where you say Mr. Moore is 

 correct in his conclusion that the ground 

 should be plowed early in the fall to kill 

 them. I beg to differ with both of you. 

 I will agree with Mr. Moore and your- 

 self that it is the time to find the worms 

 that are within reach of the plow. But 

 what benefit is it to the strawberry grower 

 to plow them up at that time.' It seems 

 to me the benefit comes on the worm's 

 side of the question, for plowing makes 

 it so much easier for the worms to dig to 

 the depth of the furrow, for at that time 

 (early fall) they are as lively as they ever 

 were and would go down after plowing. 

 And it is certain late plowing is of no use, 

 for the worms are below the depth of the 

 furrow. Therefore, I have concluded the 

 plowing theory has exploded into noth- 

 ingness. 



If you will watch one of the grubs that 

 the plow has brought to the surface you 

 will see it does not stay in sight long, but 

 soon digs under the loose earth for sel'- 

 protection, for even the lowest of God's 

 creations have sense enough to look out 

 for themselves. Nature has not con- 

 fined the instinct of self-protection to the 

 human family. In warm wet days in 

 summer notice the angle worms with their 

 heads out of the ground and notice as you 

 approach them how quickly they with- 

 draw themselves into their holes out of 

 danger of being crushed by your feet. 



One of my neighbors had an old rooster 

 that would call the hens together as soon 

 as he saw the horses were hitched to the 

 plow and follow the plowman into the 

 field, eating various kinds of worms and 

 insects that were turned in sight by the 



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plow. Perhaps it would be well to edu- 

 cate our domestic fowls up to this point. 

 I think the growing of potatoes be- 

 tween the strawberry rows would be a 

 great help to draw the grubs from the 

 roots of the plants. I have little faith 

 that potash and nitrate of soda will kill 

 the grubs. I think it would work like 

 my experiment with common salt. I 

 spread it sparingly at first between the 

 plants then later increased the quantity. 

 I finally put on so much it killed the 

 plants, but the worms seemed to grow 



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fat on it and did not decrease in number. 

 I belie\e in the hog remedy. It will 

 make a quick job of clearing the land of 

 the grubs. I think it is the only safe 

 method to clear the ground in a single 

 season; not only that, but they will work 

 up very tough land and at the same time 

 fertilize it. Take some of your old tough 

 huckleberry and blueberry fields that have 

 produced nothing but what grew sponta- 

 neously, and let the hogs root it up. The 

 strawberries you can grow on this kind of 

 land will surprise you. This virgin soil 



