THE STRAWBERRY SEPTEMBER 1907 



Clark's Seedling might result in better 

 results all-round. 



F. L. E., Keene, N. H. Please inform me 

 about the propagating bed — do you allpw 

 the plants to bear after you have talcen runners 

 from them, or how do you know which are 

 the best plants? 



The propagating bed should be used 

 for no other purpose except to grow plants, 

 and when taking up the plants the entire 

 row should be taken up. If you take up 

 the tip plants, and allow the rest to pro- 

 duce fruit, the bed would be a failure in 

 both ways, as the plants you would get 

 for resetting would be the very weakest 

 and those that were left to fruit would be 

 injured by removing the tip plants. 



E. W., Scotch Ridge, Ohio. What is the 

 chemical composition of hen manure and the 

 percentage of each element? 



2. How much by weight of dry hen manure, 

 ground to powder, will it be safe to apply to 

 an acre of rather poor land in preparing it for 

 strawberries? Also how much when scattered 

 between the rows? 



3. When other manure can not be had, can 

 hen manure, with cow peas for humus, be 

 made to take its place? If so how many tons 

 of hen manure would be equivalent to fifteen 

 tons of stable manure? 



4. Could any compound of hen manure and 

 commercial fertilizers, applied separately of 

 course, be made to take the place of barnyard 

 manure? 



Your several questions may be an- 

 swered as follows: The chemical com- 

 position of one ton of poultry droppings, is 



Water 340 pounds 



Organic matter 1020 pounds 



Ashes 740 pounds 



And when this fertilizer is properly cared 

 for, it will analyze 



Nitrogen 3X per cent. 



Potash 1|4 per cent. 



Lime 454' per cent. 



Phosphoric Acid . . . . 3 per cent. 



2. One ton of pure, dry and finely 

 ground poultry droppings, will be suffic- 

 ient to fiertilize one acre. This should 

 be scattered on top of the ground, after it 

 has been broken up and thoroughly worked 

 into the soil before the plants are set, and 

 it should be distributed through some 

 kind of a fertilizer drill, so that an even 

 distribution could be made. The same 

 amount could be used between the rows 

 of strawberry plants. 



3. In looking over the analysis of 

 poultry droppings, you will note they are 

 quite rich in nitrogen, and deficient in 

 potash and phosphoric acid, and as cow 

 peas draw considerable nitrogen from the 

 air, the peas in connection with chicken 

 droppings would make your ground too 

 rich in nitrogen and not rich enough in 

 potash and phosphoric acid. But the 

 poultry droppings and cow peas would 

 put your soil in ideal mechanical con- 



dition for plants by the addition of 400 

 pounds of bone meal and 200 pounds of 

 nitrate of potash, evenly distributed to 

 each acre and thoroughly worked into the 

 soil before plants are set, the soil will 

 then contain a well balanced plant food. 

 4. Number three also answers fourth 

 question. We might also give you the 

 the chemical composition of one ton of 

 cattle manure, which is as follows; 



Water 1550 pounds 



Organic matter 406 pounds 



Ashes 44 pounds 



And when properly handled it will analyze, 



Nitrogen 3= per cent. 



Potash 4 per cent. 



Lime 3 per cent. 



Phosphoric Acid . . . . IJ per cent. 



Thus it will be seen that the cattle drop- 

 pings comes more nearly making a com- 

 plete fertilizer for strawberries, when used 

 alone, than the chicken droppings. A fer- 

 tilizer to give best results in strawberry 

 growing should analyze as follows: 



Nitrogen 3 per cent. 



Potash 9 per cent. 



Phosphoric Acid 7 per cent. 



A. H. F. , Oregon City, Ore. Is the crown 

 borer the same as the white grub? Is the 

 borer hatched from a moth or does it stay in 

 the ground? 



2. Is it true that some varieties are more 

 liable to its attacks than others, as my Brandy- 

 wines and Texas suffered most, while Dornan, 

 Climax and Sample were untouched? 



The crown borer which is working up- 

 on your strawberry plants is the larva 

 from the beetle family and is in no way 

 related to the white grub. The larva is 

 a whitish, footless, yellow-headed grub 

 about one-fourth of an inch long, that 

 lives in the crown of strawberry plants, 

 hollowing them out so much that the 

 plants are weakened and destroyed. The 

 adult insect is a small dark colored snouted 



beetle, about one-fifth inch long. On ac- 

 count of the peculiar condition of its 

 membranous wings, it is unable to fly; 

 thus you will see that the only way the 

 crown borer can be carried is in the 

 plants. We wish to add a word in re- 

 gard to the crown borer by way of cau- 

 tion: Never take plants from an infested 

 bed. Always burn your patch over after 

 the fruit is picked. The crown borer is 

 an insect that has never been seen on The 

 Strawberry farms. 



2. One variety is no more apt to be 

 attacked by the crown borer than another, 

 that is the crown borer has no preference 

 to any particular variety. 



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