THE STRAWBERRY APRIL 1907 



contains certain plant food that naturt has 

 been depositing in it for ages that no ma- 

 nure or any other fertilizer will quite fur- 

 nish to our best old soil that has been 

 cultivated year after year and give us the 

 same results. If more of this kind of land 

 were used for strawberries or any other 

 crop we would hear fewer complaints of 

 blight, mildew, and various other troubles 

 which we have to contend with on our 

 continuously cultivated fields. I will ad- 

 mit there are certain fields that will pro- 

 duce a continuous crop of good strawber- 

 ries year after year, but with my fifty-three 

 years' experience in growing the straw- 

 berry gi\e me the virgin soil or land where 

 strawberries were never grown before. 



Weston, Mass. 



WE never have said that fall plowing 

 would completely destroy the grub, 

 but it is the best preventive we know, and 

 if hogs and chickens follow the plow in 

 the fall there will be very few grubs left 

 to work upon the roots of plants. We 

 have suggested this in several issues of 

 The Strawberry, and fall plowing, fol- 

 lowed by hogs and chickens, is recom- 

 mended by all entomologists. Birds, too, 

 devour many of the grubs which are 

 brought to the surface by the plow. 

 Freezing will destroy those which do not 

 burrow below the plowed surface. We 

 have seen virgin sod land broken up in 

 the fall and set to strawberry plants the 

 following spring, and the plants were not 

 bothered with grubs. We also have seen 

 timothy and clover sod treated in the 

 same manner and set to plants without 

 any damage being done to the plants by 

 grubs; but we would not advise using tim- 

 othy sod if other ground can be had. 



We also have seen old cultivated fields 

 left unbroken in the fall, then plowed in 

 the spring and set to strawberry plants, 

 and the grubs would ruin a heavy per- 

 centage of the plants. So it seems reas- 

 onable to conclude that fall plowing is of 

 some advantage in the fight against the 

 grub. — F. E. B. 



Strawberries in the Frozen North 



I HAVE a homestead that has never had a 

 furrow plowed on it and it is my intention 

 to worlc up a small piece of it and plant it to 

 strawberries. What will the result be? I shall 

 not use anything but stable manure and what 

 will be the result where the ground freezes from 

 three to seven feet every winter? I am just 

 wondering how I will make out on my land. — 

 Letter from a North Dakota subscriber. 



THE safest estimate as to what you 

 may accomplish will be based upon 

 what others are doing under the 

 same conditions of climate and soil to 

 which you are subject. And this will be 

 a most encouraging estimate, indeed. 

 The rich, black soil of North Dakota 

 produces beautiful strawberries, of good 

 flavor and of large size. The fact that 

 the soil freezes to a depth of from three 



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to seven feet is no cause for discourage- 

 ment to the strawberry, the most ubiqui- 

 tous of all fruits, thriving as it does beneath 

 tropic suns and yielding abundantly among 

 the snow-capped mountains of Alaska. 



Get your soil in good tilth, be sure it 

 is well drained and supplied with plant 

 food, set out first-class plants just as soon 

 in the spring as the soil is soft and friable 

 but not too wet; begin cultivating them at 

 once and see to it that a dust mulch is 

 kept over the patch continuously, and you 

 need have no worry as to how you will 

 come out on that land when planted to 

 strawberries. 



Killing the Destructive Cut-Worm 



WE are in receipt of a note from S. 

 H. Warren of Weston, Mass., in 

 which he says: "To kill the cut- 

 worms I use a common water-pail of mill 

 feed, in which I place one teaspoonful of 

 Paris green, one pint of molasses, and mix 

 them all well together, and scatter this 

 near the plants. Last year these cut-worms 

 were very numerous in Massachusetts, 

 eating off beans, tomatoes, strawberry 

 plants and other things. They ate the 

 leaves off my strawberry plants more than 



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ever before. I used this remedy and it 

 worked first rate. One application was 

 all that was needed." 



We endorse this remedy for cut-worms. 

 They have a great appetite for sweets, and 

 will eat the bran and arsenate which wiii 

 kill them. 



AMONG the important conveniences and 

 economies of the farm which the inventive 

 genius of America has produced within the past 

 quarter of a century, it is doubtful if there is 

 another which ser%es a larger purpose than the 

 manure spreader. Not only is the spreader to 

 he considered from the labor-saving view point, 

 but it is a conserver of fertility as well, and this 

 is one of the most important considerations to 

 the man who tills the soil. To supply the soil 

 with an abundance of plant food at the least ex- 

 penditure of the plant food itself and of labor in 

 applying it, is matter of large importance The 

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 ings made by it. Write the company for full 

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