THE STRAWBERRY MAY 1907 



We do not know of any practical way to 

 destroy them. 



5. During the early part of April 

 Northern plants are perfectly dormant. 

 The roots are thoroughly caloused and if 

 properly handled every one should grow 

 and prod uce big crops of be rries. Dormant 

 plants will always carry much better than 

 plants that have started to grow. 



6. You should start cutting the runners 

 as soon as they extend beyond the outer 

 edge of the foliage of the mother plan' 

 The cutting should be done every \: ccK 

 or ten days, depending somewhat upon 

 weather conditions. If the weather is wet 

 the runners will grow faster and more 

 abundantly than in dry weather. 



7. In your locality the mulching 

 should merely be placed along each side 

 of the rows, and just enough of it should 

 be used to keep the berries clean during 

 ripening time. This will leave room 

 enough between the rows for the irrigating 

 furrow. 



8. The Splendid variety makes a very 

 small foliage compared to Marshall. The 

 Marshall grows quite tall and upright, 

 while the Splendid has a spreading ten- 

 dency and grows close to the ground. 



9. The little insect that does so much 

 damage to your cucumber vines, is the 

 striped cucumber beetle. It very much 

 resembles the lady bug. Soon after the 

 cucumber appears above the ground in 

 the spring, this beetle starts to feed upon 

 the leaves and stems, and in many parts 

 of the country is quite destructive. The 

 female beetle deposites its eggs in the soil 

 about the stems of the plants, and the larva 

 resulting, feed upon the roots. The best 

 remedy is tobacco dust. After the seeds 

 are planted a large handful of tobacco dust 

 should besprinkled over the hill. It will 

 not hurt if this tobacco dust is put on the 

 cucumber vines, as it is a fertilizer as well 

 as a preventive against these insects. 

 We do not think they ever will trouble 

 your strawberry plants. 



E. M. C, Belfast, N. V. We have a field of 

 sandy loam that in the spring of 1904 was well 

 covered with stable manure after a crop of 

 corn the previous year. The field was planted 

 to potatoes and in 1905 was sown to oats and 

 seeded to clover and timothy. In 1906 it was 

 top-dressed with stable manure and one crop 

 of clover was cut and a second crop turned 

 under in the fall preparatory to setting .straw- 

 berries this spring. Would we receive any 

 benefit from broadcasting and working in 

 with the soil ashes made from sawdust — most- 

 ly hemlock? 



The manner in which you have pre- 

 pared your piece of soil for strawberries is 

 ideal and it should give you excellent re- 

 sults when set to well-developed plants, 

 provided you give them good care from 

 start to finish. If your soil is of sandy 

 loam, it will be all right to apply seventy- 

 five bushels of ashes made from hemlock 

 sawdust. Ashes of this kind are not so 



The 



Strawberry Photographic 

 Contest for 1907 



LAST YEAR the photographic contest between members of 

 The Strawberry family aroused much pleasant rivalry, 

 and resuhed in giving to the world many beautiful and in- 

 structive views of strawberry fields. It is our purpose to make 

 the contest this year of even greater interest to all. We there- 

 fore shall offer a duplicate set of prizes — one for the best 

 photograph of a field of strawberries not less than one acre in 

 extent; the other set of prizes for a photograph of a family 

 strawberry patch — as follows: 



A— Commercial Straw- 

 berry Field 



1st prize Photograph, cash $5.00 

 2nd prize Photograph, cash 3.00 

 3d prize Photograph, cash 2.00 



B— Family Strawberry 

 Patch 



1st prize Photograph, cash $S.00 

 2iid prize Photograph, cash 3.00 

 3d prize Photograph, cash 2.00 



It is to be understood that all photographs submitted in this 

 contest are to be the property of the Kellogg Publishing Com- 

 pany. The season will extend from spring until late fall, the 

 individual contestant choosing his own time for taking the 

 view; the desire being to show ideal conditions at every stage 

 of development of the plants. Expert photographers will pass 

 upon the merits of the photographs and award prizes. 



The Kellogg Publishing Company 



Three Rivers, Michigan 



strong as hardwood ashes, therefore may 

 be applied more heavily. If the ashes 

 were from hardwood, we would advise 

 hfty bushels to the acre. 



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I. H., Clifton, la. What effect on land will 

 bone dust or meal have that has been dissolved 

 with sulphuric acid and then used as a fertili- 

 zer for strawberries? I can obtain the acid 

 and bone here. As Clifton is a mining camp 

 they manufacture their own acid; and also we 

 have a slaughter pen near by. I do not know 

 what effect the sulphuric acid will have and I 

 want your opinion. I got the idea out of an 

 agricultural bulletin on how to dissolve the 

 bone with the acid. 



The effect of the acidulated bone meal 

 upon the soil will be excellent if the prop- 

 er chemical mixure is made. The dif- 



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fdrence between phosphoric acid and plain 

 phosphate rock in their effect is that the 

 acidulated material is rendered more 

 quickly available than where the applica- 

 tion is in the form of phosphate rock. Be 

 careful in dissolving the bone that the 

 work be done in accordance with a well 

 tested formula. 



Subscriber, Wabasha, Minn. Does it injure 

 strawberry plants to put them into luke-warm 

 water long enough to wash the dirt out of 

 the roots, before packing them to ship? An- 

 swer in The Strawberry. 



We never have washed plants before 

 ihipping them, and certainly would not 

 recommend it. A small amount of sand 

 or dirt among the roots will do no injury. 

 If the ground is dry when the plants are 



