THE STRAWBERRY MAY 1907 



and fruiting season and mechanical con- 

 ditions of the soil. One acre of thrifty 

 plants, grown in hills as you describe in 

 your letter, should produce at least 7,000 

 or 8,000 quarts of first-class berries. A 

 single-hedge-row acre should produce at 

 least 6,000 quarts of good salable berries. 

 The matted row system should produce 

 as many or more quarts than either the 

 single hedge or hills, but of course, the 

 berries would not be fancy. You under- 

 stand this is only an estimate. We have 

 known acres to produce many more quarts 

 than we have estimated. 



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E. W. C. Pittsfield, Me. After the fruiting 

 season of '06 I plowed my berry patch under. 

 Then gave a good harrowing, but did not 

 apply stable manure as I could not get any 

 suitable. This land has been set to strawberries 

 several years by other parties, but has been 

 allowed to fruit only one year before plowing. 

 Commercial fertilizer has been used. The soil 

 is red and almost sandy and will grow almost 

 anything. I set forty-five hundred plants last 

 spring, but had to use phosphate. My varieties 

 of plants are Haverland, Bubach, Crescent, and 

 Brandywine. I set them in separate pieces, 

 as I thought they might mix. Is that right? 

 I mulched them with swale hay in November. 

 They did not throw out runners as they would 

 had the ground received a good coat of 

 stable manure. Now I want to know: 1st. 

 How would you set the above named varieties? 

 2nd. Would it pay to apply nitrate of soda 

 on my fruiting bed this spring? 

 2. What had I better do with the piece of 

 ground I plowed after the fruiting season? 

 The Strawberry has been a great help to me, 

 and expect it will be of more help in the future. 

 I am a beginner. 



We doubt if the Haverland, Bubach 

 and Crescent will give you enough berries 

 to pay for the setting as they are pistillates 

 and should be set with bisexuals of their 

 own season. Haverland should be set 

 with Parson's Beauty, Bubach with Clyde 

 and Crescent with Splendid. We would 

 not spend any money for nitrate of soda 

 to be used on your plants. 



2. After plowing the piece of ground 

 which has been growing strawberries, we 

 would sow cow peas. 



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J. A. C. , Western Springs, III. A part of my 

 one acre of strawberries will have fruited for 

 the third time this summer, and I intend to 

 reset it after the coming crop is harvested. 

 Do you advise plowing it this summer and 

 then raising some other crop like potatoes for 

 next summer before again putting it into 

 strawberries, or can I manure it thoroughly 

 in July, plow it under, and then plant to 

 strawberries next spring? 



Where one is limited in area, and must 

 use the same piece of soil over and 

 over again, it is all right to plow under, 

 fertilize and reset the next spring, as you 



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suggest. Of course, where it is possible 

 to do so, a system of rotation should al- 

 ways be followed. After plowing under 

 the old strawberry bed, it should be sown 

 to cowpeas or some other legume as soon 

 as possible, and this plowed under late in 

 the fall, when rye should be sown and 

 allowed to grow as it may in the fall and 

 winter months, carrying out manure and 

 scattering it over this growing rye during 

 the winter season. In the spring when 

 this rye is plowed under it will be found 

 that the soil will have been thoroughly 

 renovated as well as fertilized, and in fine 

 condition for the reception of plants. 



D. N., Ontonagon, Mich. Please give us in- 

 formation regarding nitrate of soda, — that is 

 as to the place nearest us where we could pur- 

 chase it. What is the price? 



Write Swift and Co., Union Stock 

 Yards, Chicago, for prices. A. L. Ran- 

 dall Co., 19-21 Randolph-St., Chicago, 

 111., quote nitrate of soda at $64.00 per 



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ton. W. R. Grace & Co., Box 86, New 

 York Citj', quote the soda at about $3.00 

 per hundred pounds. 



J. A., Ea^ton, Ind. The article in March 

 Strawbeny by Mr. Beatty is I think one of 

 the best of the many good articles in The 

 Strawberry. I would like to know tiow he 

 would plant his bisexual berries — how many 

 rows of tach? I have never planted more than 

 two and one-half acres and always plant eight 

 or ten rows of each. They all appear to make 

 perfect berries, but I keep ten or more hives 

 of bees. 



2 Do you not think that bees are an ad- 

 vantage to berries as they fly from bloom to 

 bloom and help to distribute the pollen? I 

 would like to have your opinion on the subject. 



We would set three rows of each kind 

 alternately. Some growers think this 

 makes a little more work at picking time, 

 but we never figure the extra work so long 

 as the extra profit will justify it. In some 

 seasons the results would be just the same 



