THE STRAWBERRY APRIL 1907 



grow a single variety of fruit, it is the part 

 of folly to continue to grow many. 



8. One fruit problem organization 

 will work out sooner or later — the problem 

 of disposing of our unmarketable fruit, 

 such as culls and seconds. By cooperation 

 growers can establish canning factories, 

 vinegar plants, evaporators, and other mills 

 for manufacturing our refuse fruit into 

 profitable by-products. Saving our losses, 

 our wastes, is a great problem. Organiza- 

 tion is at work on this now. It finally 

 will work it out. 



Many growers are possibly a little self- 

 ish and a little suspicious. These vices 

 or weaknesses or whatever they may be, 

 oftentimes stand in our way, and we should 

 seek first the good part of a healthy or- 

 ganization Neosho, Mo. 



Overflow Correspondence School 



SO MANY of our readers have sent 

 in questions this month that we have 

 had to create an overflow class for 

 their benefit. This is the season when 

 information and definite instructions must 

 be promptly received, and it is our aim 

 to furnish it right up to date. 



M. H., CoUison, 111. We are readers of The 

 Strawberry and would not like to be without 

 it. My wife and I read every issue from 

 first to last, with much interest and profit. 

 The berries on our plants were immense; they 

 just laid in piles around the plants. They 

 were a wonder to those who saw them in 

 fruit, and one would hear folks say: "Just 

 look here! Just look there! Just look — what 

 piles of them!" I would like to ask two 

 questions: 



1. What kind of soil is best adapted to the 

 Gandy? 



2. After the second picking on my Brandy- 

 wine they became knotty and deformed. 

 What is the cause? 



The Gandy appears to be partial to a 

 clay soil. It is a variety that does not 

 require a great amount of manure, and it 

 yields as good crops the second and third 

 year as it does the first. 



2. The Brandywine always has been 

 considered a strong pollenizer, and so it 

 is; but a series of experiments has con- 



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 Box 52 Moncie, Ind 



vinced us that by setting it with some 

 other good bisexual, like Dornan, Pride 

 of Michigan or Parsons' Beauty, results 

 in eliminating the knotty, hard-end and 

 green-tipped berries. This indicates that 

 Brandywine is influenced favorably by 

 receiving pollen from other varieties in 

 addition to that from its own flowers, 



A. H. S., Nampa, Idaho. I set out about a 

 half acre of strawberries last fall in September 

 as my neighbors told me that they would be 



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in time to bear a crop this season, I never 

 raised any berries; in fact, my time has been 

 spent in the school room for many years; so I 

 merely took the land as I found it, and as I 

 could get very little expert advice in the mat- 

 ter, decided to depend on myself. The land, 

 which I have only owned a few months, was 

 in wheat last season, so I had it plowed and 

 harrowed thoroughly and then I made my 

 rows so that they could be irrigated, and 

 about once a week until November 1, I turned 

 the water through the rows. As soon as cold 

 weather came (it is never very cold he;e) I put 



