THE STRAWBERRY OCTOBER 1907 



Genuine 



Made - to - Order 



Ship my Paint in extra size GalloQcans — 

 giiariiiitet'll to contain I'lill measure. 

 These can.s are datt-d tlie day the i»aint is 

 made — (/'>»»• jrnarantee tliat the Paint is abso- 

 lutely /re.s/i wlien yon get It. 



Out of any six-gallon order or over you may 

 use twoRallons on j'our liuikiln(_'S. 



If it is satitsfactorv, usie the halance. If it 

 i.-iii't satlsfaetory. return the halanee. I"ll re- 

 fund all the money paid— iiay transportatrou 

 both way.-j— and the test eliant cost vu a cent. 

 ^ ^%, fllaklui; Paint fresh to order on a biV' scale for 

 ■^the individual user enables me tooliera hfdfr 



PAINT 



paint— at a IvKvr price— than any Mail-tinler 

 House iir paint couip»'ny in tlie I'nited Stales. 



Hunt think of biiyiiiy: Paint anywliere until 

 you t'el my proposition. 



1 can save you some money on a paint that"? 

 bound to please you— because if u <l<>f*t>n't 

 please you. you can senil it back after you uave 

 used t«n full ^'allons. 



Wont you write today for mvBip Paint Book 

 and other printed matter.' It"^is sent FHKK- 

 ttitrether with sample c<)|ors to choose from. 

 Just send me a postal with your name and ad- 

 dress—and do it *(cii('— while it's on your mind. 



Om L, CHASE, The Paintman, Depi. u. 



Me as- 



FREIGHT PREPAID 



Two Full 

 Gallons 

 To Try 



ST. LOUIS, MO. 



pion and Cardinal are two splendid late 

 varieties, but as they are new and untried 

 would suggest that you try them in a 

 small way first. 



3. It is not necessary to cut the run- 

 ner cord after the young plant takes root, 

 as this young plant becomes self-support- 

 ing and draws no nourishment from the 

 mother plant. 



4. In burning over the bed of straw- 

 berry plants let the fire go over the entire 

 ground. Before doing this the mulching 

 should be loosened up so that the mulch- 

 ing will burn rapidly. 



J. T. G., Southboro, Mass. I prepared my 

 small strawberry bed, after fruiting, for next 

 year's crop according to the method given in 

 your catalogue and The Strawberry. I lost 

 nearly all the plants and I enclose two of the 

 crowns. Did I cut them off too low down? 



The crowns of the strawberry plants 

 indicate only too clearly the reason for 

 your failure. In cutting off your plants 

 we note that you have cut through the 

 crowns, severing the vital parts of the 

 plants, which resulted in killing them. In 

 cutting otf plants of an old fruiting bed 

 the machine used for the purpose may 

 cut close to the ground, but never should 

 go beneath the surface. 



F. B., Litchfield, 111. .'\re old rotted logs and 

 leaves and fine loose soil, such as is found in 

 heavy timbered land, as valuable as barnyard 

 manure for strawberries and all other veget- 

 ables? I have to haul manure two and one- 

 half miles from town, but there is heavy tim- 

 ber only a quarter of a mile from my straw- 

 berry and truck patches. 



Tlie loose, black soil and rotted logs and 

 leaves from the woodlands would tend 

 greatly to improve the mechanical condi- 

 tion of your soil, making it lighter and more 

 readily susceptible to aeration, but the 

 quant ty of plant food in the vegetable mat- 

 ter you thus describe is relatively small as 

 compared with barnyard fertilizer, there- 

 fore the chemical results on the soil would 

 not be nearly so marked where these mate- 

 rials from the woods were used as where 

 barnyard fertilizer was employed. How- 

 ever, humified organic matter C(intains 

 quite a supply of the element nitrogen, and 



will aid in increasing the content of that 

 important element in your soil; but we 

 should advise you to use a generous quan- 

 tity' of barnyary manure, even though you 

 do employ a large amount of this decay- 

 ing vegetable matter. 



T. H. M., Thornton, R. I. Would you sug- 

 gest the best way to set the following varieties: 

 Climax, Warfield, Beidler, Thompson's 

 No. 2, Glen Mary, Wm. Belt, Senator Dun- 

 lap, Brandywine and Pride of Michigan? 



2. I have two pieces of ground in preparation 

 for next spring's planting, about an acre in 

 all. One piece, about three-fourths acre, is 

 flat and one-fourth acre slopes to the north in 

 two different fields. Of Beidler and Thomp- 

 son's No. 2 I am going to try only a couple 

 of hundred plants, and about 100 Pride of 

 Michigan, just to try tl em out. I want to 

 grow for market and if I can get good-sized 

 berries I will get good prices; but small ber- 

 ries will be a drug, so I would like to set in 

 either the single or double hedge row to get 

 best results. 



3. I enclose leaves of the Senator Dunlap 

 variety. They seem to be dying for want of 

 moisture, but I have cultivated every week 

 during a long drought of eighty days accord- 

 ing to your directions, and some of them are 

 looking fine and are making plenty of good 

 runners, but the ones that are affected are 

 plants that started off all right and attained a 

 good growth, but the runners on the infected 

 ones did not grow, so I pulled them up also. 



4. Will you tell me how to tell a plant in- 

 fected with mildew? With blight and fungi? 



5. Which of the varieties of cowpeas do you 

 advise for green manuring and will I broad- 

 cast or drill in? 



6. Is sulphuriate of potassium liver of sul- 

 phur, and how much of it shall I put to the 

 gallon of water? 



7. How much blue vitriol and lime will it 

 take to a gallon of water? 



8. About six weeks after I set out plants I 

 worked in some ground bone but never ap- 

 plied any potash. Could I put potash on now, 

 and do I need to put any nitrateof soda with it? 



9. Would you recommend "Swift's Straw- 

 berry Special" or would it be better for me to 

 buy my nitrate, bone and potash and mix 

 them myself; arid who would you advise me 

 to buy them from? 



We should set the several varieties 

 named in the following order: Climax, 



Page 206 



'The Whole Thing in a Nut Shell" 



200 Eggs 

 a Year 

 per Hen 



HOW TO GET THEM 



rPHE sixth edition of tlie booli, "200 Eggs a Year 

 -L per Hen," is now ready. Revised, enlarged, and 

 inpart rewritten, 90 pages. Contains among other 

 things the method of feeding by which Jlr. S. fi. Foi, 

 of Wolfboro, N. H,, won the prize of $100 in gold of- 

 fered by the manufacturers of a well-known condition 

 powder for the best egg record during the winter 

 months. Simple as a, b, c— and yetwe gnaranteeit to 

 start hens to laying earlier and to induce them to lay 

 more eggs than any other method under the sun. Tht 

 book also contains recipe for egg food and tonic used 

 by Mr, Fos, which brought him in one winter day Ofc 

 eggs from 72 hens; and for flvedaysinsnccesslon from 

 the same flock 64 eggs a day, Mr, F. P. Chamberlain 

 ofWolflroro, N.H., says: "By followingthe methods 

 outlined in your book I obtained 1,496 eggs from 91 

 R, I, Reds in the month of January, 1902," From 

 14 pullets picked at random out o'f a farmer's flock 

 the author got 2,999 eggs in one year— an average of 

 over 214 eggs apiece. It haa been my ambition in 

 ivnting "200 Eggs a Year per Hen' ' to make it the 

 standard book on egg production and profits in poultry. 

 Tells all there is to tnow, and tells it in a plain com- 

 mon-sense way. 



Price 50 cents; or with a year's subscrip- 

 tion to the American Poultry Advocate, 

 both for 75 cents, or given as a premium 

 for 2 yearly subscriptions at 50 cents each 



Our p;iper is linndsoraely illnstrati^d, 44 to HO pages, 

 60 cents pe. vrar. ;^ months' trial. 10 cuts. {Sam- 

 ple free. C.iTALOGUE of poultry books free. 



AMERICAN POULTRY ADVOCATE. 



85 Hogan Block, Syracuse, N. Y. 



Warfield, Senator Dunlap, Beidler, 

 Thompson's No. 2, Glen Mary, Wm. 

 Belt, Brandywine, Pride of Michigan. If 

 you are setting a large acreage you may set 

 three rows of each kind in the order named. 

 The point we wish to impress is that not 

 more than three rows of pistillates should 

 ever be set solidly together, but should 

 have a bisexual every three rows. 



2. You are correct; it does not pay 

 anybody to grow inferior strawberries, and 

 if well-developed plants are uniformly 

 used and they are given intelligent care, 

 with a favorable season the berries always 

 will be fancy. 



3. The leaves you send us appear to 

 be healthy with the exception of a very 

 few rust spots. The fact that you have 

 carried your plants through an eighty-day- 

 drought is proof that you have followed 

 thorough cultural methods. We are 

 pleased to know that the advice of The 

 Strawberry has led you triumphantly 

 through such a siege. Regarding the few 



