THE STRAWBERRY MAY 1907 



if six or eight rows of each kind were set 

 alternately. But we never know what 

 the season is going to be. 



2. Thereis noquestion but honey bees 

 are helpful in distributing pollen While 

 they are taking nectar from a flower, they 

 are always moving over the flower in such 

 a way as to collect pollen on their lower 

 parts, and when they light on the next 

 flower, much of this pollen is deposited. 

 In this way many blooms' are pollenized 

 that would remain barren, were it not for 

 the bees. 



Mrs. J. E. C. Brandon, Minn. Will you 

 please tell me how to prepare hellebore for 

 spraying? 



The way to prepare hellebore is to use 

 one ounceof the poison with three gallons 

 of boiling water. Remember that helle- 

 bore soon loses its strength and it should 

 be used immediately after making. 



E. W. H., Ft. Valley, Ga. 1 have one acre 

 and a half of strawberries set this spring — 

 Lady Thompsons. The land is fresh, new 

 ground; loamy soil. I broke it up with a 

 two-horse plow and then harrowed it, laid off 

 my rows three and one-half to four feet apart, 

 and strewed barnyard manure in the furrow 

 and then bedded it up; setting the plants on 

 the bed about two feet apart. I have more 

 barnyard manure; how could I apply it and 

 when to get best results? 



2. What system is best for the Lady Thomp- 

 son — the single or double hedge row? 



3. How many runners should each mother 

 plant be allowed to make? 



Your land is now in excellent condition 

 as a result of the manure already applied, 

 and the way to get the best results from 

 the balance of the manure is to apply it 

 to the land just before the last cultivation 

 in the fall. 



2. The double-hedge row. 



3. It depends upon the system you 

 are following. Jf you follow the single- 

 hedge row, you will permit two runners 

 to develop; if the double-hedge row, four 

 runners. Please note illustrations of single- 

 hedge and double-hedge rows on page 121 

 of this issue. 



S. N. , Newton, Kan. Have a nice patch of 

 berries — over one acre — that was set out in 

 1906. I mulched them in November with 

 wheat straw. Now the patch is covered with 

 green wheat. Is there anything I can do to 

 get rid of the wheat? 



The wheat which is coming up through 

 the mulching can be removed in several 

 difi^erent ways. If this wheat is just 

 coming through the mulching, a large 

 percentage of it can be smothered out by 

 raising the mulching up with a fork and 

 laying it back on the ground again. This 

 will put the mulching on top of the wheat 



and to a large degree will smother the wheat 

 down. Or if you will take a wide, sharp 

 hoe, and work it under the mulching, the 

 wheat easily may be cut off just below 

 the surface. If the wheat is grown through 

 the straw, and has made quite a growth, 

 then the best way to get rid of it is to pull 

 it up by hand. By doing this work after 

 a heavy rain, it will come up very easily. 



J. A. P. Ripon, Calif. I have just finished 

 setting 17,000 plants. Do you mean that I 

 should go over the whole patch every few 

 days and pick off the blossoms? That would 

 be a terrible job. 



2. I put them twelve inches in the row 

 (single-hedge) and the rows thirty inches apart, 

 intending to allow no runners to grow. Is 

 that too close? I put them close on account 

 of water; this land is almost pure sand and we 

 must irregate two or three times a week. 



3. My plants have berries large as brown 

 beans now and full of bloom. Some have 

 fifteen or twenty even twenty-five berries on 

 now. Shall I take them all off? 



4. Last fall when I came here my soil was 

 just full of small red ants and they are appear- 

 ing again. Neighbors tell me they will dam- 

 age my fruit. What can I do to kill them? 



5. Berries ripen here the last of March and 

 the first of April and Northern growers will 

 not ship plants until April. Would that not 

 be too late to plant them? This sand soon 

 dries out and there is no rain after March to 

 speak of. 



6. How often will I have to cut runners and 

 when will I have to beg n? 



7. Do you think I could mulch any here 

 where I have to irrigate so frequently? 



8. My Splendid plants do not look half so 

 well as the Marshall planted at the same time. 

 Is that their nature or have I poor plants? 

 y. There is here a bug or fly resembling a 

 lady bug. They come in June and just clean 

 out all the cucumbers, beans, cabbage, 

 melons, and nearly all garden truck. Do you 

 think they will eventually go to the berries? 

 What are they and what spray can I use on 

 garden truck for them? 



Just as soon as your young plants bloom, 

 you should go over the entire field and 

 remove the bloom. This is done by cut- 

 ting or pinching off the fruit stems. It is 

 not a very long job. The buds from your 

 17,000 plants should be removed in less 

 than two days by one man. 



2. The distance apart you have set 

 those plants is correct, inasmuch as you 

 intend to remove the runners. 



3. If the berries you speak of are on 

 the young set plants, by all means cut 

 them off at once. If you do not, they 

 will draw all the strength from the plants 

 and this will possibly result in losing a 

 large per cent of them. 



4. Ants of any kind can be discouraged 

 a great deal by thorough cultivation. They 

 love to work in solid soil and the looser 

 you keep your soil and the oftener it is 

 stirred, the more it discourages the ants^ 



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