THE STRAWBERRY OCTOBER 1907 



STRAWBERRIES DO WELL IN KANSAS --FI ELD OF L. L. ALLIS AT MANHATTAN 



jjret'n berries, the ripe fruit and ihe garden 

 of Eden restored! The only difficulty is 

 one needs the family wash tub to hold 

 them when they once get to ripening. 

 It was really a delightful sight to see ihe 

 berr e'! form, the path between each two 

 rows being litcrahy hned with them. 'I'hey 

 ripened 1 ue ihis yea^', the August Luther, 

 Texas, Bederuood and Dunlap June 29; 

 three days later the "sample, Splendid, 

 Warfield, VVolverton, Haverland and Ten- 

 nessee, and the Brandy wine. Parson's 

 Beauty, Glen Mary, Pride of Michigan, 

 Dornan, Oregon and Klondike three days 

 later, the Midnight coming last of all. 

 They ceased bearing in about the same 

 order, ex ept that the Brandywine is a 

 greit beiry to hnkl on, furnishing several 

 highly appreciated meals after the oihers 

 were mo-iily gone. 



Ot all the var.eties planted I should 

 place first the Sample, giving it clear lead. 

 It is a pistillate, vigorous, not very sour, 

 producing a large number of very fine 

 berries. It one wants a little more char- 

 acter to his strawberries he can put in a 

 few Brandywines or Splendids with the 

 Samples, put on plenty of cream and sugar 

 and not envy Queen Elizabeth with all 

 her inonopiilies. As next in value I would 

 name the Splendid, Brandywiiie, Haver- 

 land, Dunlap, Tennessee, Waifield. The 

 last, like the Bederwood, is an abundant 

 bearer, but not usually of large size. For 

 a small patch O' berries with few var'e ies 

 1 would suggest planting a ri)W each of 

 Brandywines, Samples and Si/lendid, and 

 then another row uf Samples and one of 

 Duiilaps. I'o these might be added a 

 row each of Haverlaiivl and Tennessee, 

 and as many of otiier varieties as one 

 wants to trv. The Klondike appears to 

 be the best of the new varieties. 



There are four essentials lo: .i icaily 

 fine crop of sirawberries: yood soil, well 

 lilled; good plants of sianlard varieties, 

 plenty of water and unres.ricied sunshine. 

 O le must even lay an embargo on the 



good hmise-wife standing in the back yard 

 and having one of ih.ise deligluf.il morn- 

 ing chats wi;h her neighbor belore the 

 breakfast dishes are washed, if it will cast 

 a shadow on the strav\ berry p itch. 1 could 

 reach about two-thirds ol my patch with 

 the garden hose and in the evening after 

 picking I would give them a good water- 

 ing. While the part not reached produced 

 some good berries, the nearer ends of the 

 rows were dazzling with the large, red 

 berries peeping out from tie green leaves. 

 As the water bill for the month was only 

 20 cents more than the minimum charge 

 the expense was but trifling. 1 have never 

 taken so much pains with a strawberry 

 patch, and never had such a crop of ber- 

 ries, gallons and gallons of the very fiiits", 

 c.illinu; in several neighbors and bidding 

 them pick lo their heart's content. 1 wish 

 othei'^ would give their experience, for 

 We are un ler obiigatmns to every man 

 wi b a garden in the Northwest to compel 

 him to provide for his family an abundance 

 of this delicious and healthy fruit. 



Hamline University, Minn. 



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CONCERNING the white grub and 

 Ins in.-liience upon the strawberry, 

 M. N. Edgeti' u has the following in the 

 Aiiiencm larm World for September: 

 The grub begn- his work as soon as the 

 plants are set and ccntuiues his operations 

 throughout ;he life of the plantation. As 

 this strawberry pest works on the roots of 

 the plants onlv, there is no chance to reach 

 his case with ar^enites. The only thing 

 to do is to hunt him out and kill him. 

 1 his may seem rn be something of a job, 

 but it is ihe only way out. If a plant 

 appears to be wdiing or out of condition, 

 not keeping up u ith its fellows, nine 

 chances in ten a grub will be feeding on 

 its roots. It is not often ihat his presence 

 can be detected in time to save the plant 

 in a condition that will vvarrani its reten- 

 tion in the row of plants. However, by 

 destroying the grub other plants in the 

 row may be saved. As these grubs have 

 ferocious appetites, a single specimen may 

 be responsible for a large vacancy. By 

 having a piece of ground under culiivation 

 two or three years previous to setting lo 

 strawberry plants there will be a com- 

 paratively small loss from this source, but 

 we never yet had a plantation that was 

 perfectly free from this pest. ^Ve annu- 

 ally save many plants by keeping an eye 

 open for signs of his workings. 



T RELAND is returning the complimeir. 

 •^ It was the famine on the Emerald Isle 

 of many years ago that led us to send to 

 the afflicted people vast quantities of the 

 tubers that gav e to them the popular name 

 of the 'Irish" potato. Now the people of 

 Ireland grow so many of them that there 

 IS a prospect that they will export large 

 quantities to this country before spring. 



CVERY truck grower of I exas is now 

 '—' required to stamp his name on every 

 crate containing his products, in order that 

 the responsibility for shipping goods belovv 

 grade will be placed where it belongs. 

 Which is just as it should be in ev eiy state 

 of the Union. 



TOTAL exports of bananas from Costa 

 Rica in 1906 amounted to 8,872.729 

 bunches, valued at $4,436,364. 



