THE STRAWBERRY MAY 1907 



••Worth All the Gas Li^hts;£ver Made" 



*'[t Is difficult to find wordstoexpress our pleasure 

 and satisfactloa with The Angle Lamp," writes Mr. 

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 ever made. Such a clear, steady, brilliaot aod beauti- 

 ful light and so easy to core fori" 



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 ordinary lump3in results as it Is in appearance. It 

 makes common kerot^ene the bi. ^c.tbecheapeist and 

 most satisfactory of all li^rhting methods. Safer 

 and more reliable than pa-'^ollne oracetvlene,yet as 

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EVERY READER OF THE STRAW- 

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 OF GROFF'S HYBRID GLADIOLI 

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method, however. Old beds should be 

 carefully cleaned out. 



2. The strawberry root-borer (Typo- 

 phorus canelliii) is troublesome in certain 

 parts of the central states. 



The larvae causing the damage hatch 

 from eggs laid by stout, polished, brownish 

 beetles, one-eighth inch long, and marked 

 with four black spots, which appear in 

 great numbers about the first of May and 

 feed on the foliage. 



The grubs are small, white, with red- 

 dish brown heads, and one-eighth inch 

 long when mature. They feed on the 

 roots until the last of June, when they 

 pupate in a small oval cell made in the 

 ground by twining round and round. 



The beetles soon appear and lay the 

 eggs for a second brood, which reaches 

 maturity by fall, passing the winter as 

 adults. 



Remedies — Spray the plants before they 

 blossom with Paris green or arsenate of 

 lead. After the fruit is set use hellebore. 

 Never set a new bed on infested land or 

 near enough to an old one so that infection 

 can follow. This is a precaution which 

 will apply in dealing with most insects. 



3. Wire-worms, the larvae of click 



beetles, will attack the roots, especially in 

 beds set on sod land. If they become 

 numerous the land would better be rotated 

 with immune crops unless it is a small plot, 

 when resort may be had to poisoned baits 

 such as clover cut and sprayed with Paris 

 green (one-fourth pound to a barrel of 

 water) or bran mash poisoned with the 

 Paris green. No extended description is 

 necessary, for wire-worms are familiar to 

 ail. 



(Continued in June Numberl 

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Why He is Enthusiastic 



By M. M. Luzader 



THE STRAWBERRY is all right 

 so far, and if any one can read it a 

 few months and not catch the fever 

 of an enthusiastic berry culture he had 



better buy some good clothes and a pack- 

 age of cigarettes and loaf the rest of his 

 days. It would be a shame for a good 

 honest, intelligent, industrious strawberry 

 plant to fall into such a man's hands. 



I began growing strawberries three 

 years ago with one-eighth of an acre, and 

 by following the directions in "Big Crops 

 of Strawberries" I made the patch yield 

 $75. 



Last year the hard freeze the 10th of 

 May cut my crop about half, but from 

 the half-acre of fruiting bed I sold $135 

 besides what we used in the family and 

 gave away. Parsons' Beauty and Haver- 

 land are my best money makers. 



My plants are looking fine this spring, 

 and if old Jack Frost tends strictly to his 

 own bussiness I will have a heavy crop 



of big berries. Harrisville, w. Va. 



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