THE STRAWBERRY OCTOBER 1907 



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 hold more of the water caused from rain 

 and snow duruig the winter months. 

 Many experiments have been made along 

 this line which have shown that ground 

 broken in the fall and gi\en a cover crop 

 will stand more drouth the following 



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season when properly treated than soil 

 which has laid unbroken and packed hard 

 all winter. While the rye will not add 

 any value to the soil in the way of plant 

 food, it will prevent a lot of plant food 

 from being wasted. 



2. As your manure contains so many 

 white grubs, it will be best not to apply it 

 until cold winter weather comes on. If 

 this manure lie.s in a heap in the barnyard 

 and you have poultr\' or hogs, you could 

 do nothing better than to turn them into 

 the yard and spread the manure in the 

 yard so that these animals could free the 

 manure of the grubs. Then scattering 

 the manure over the prospective straw- 

 berry field while the ground is frozen 

 would prevent the remaining grubs from 

 burrowing into the soil, leaving them on 

 top to be frozen or devoured by birds. If 

 you will follow these suggestions you 

 may feel perfectly safe about setting your 

 strawberry plants in the spring in soil con- 

 taining this manure. 



3. The number of runner plants made 

 by one mother plant depends entirely up- 

 on the condition of the soil, the variety 

 and the season. In rich loamy soil, with 

 plenty of moisture, the more prolific va- 

 rieties would make from forty to fifty good 

 plants, while those less prolific would 

 range from twelve to twenty-five or even 

 thirty. 



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 by runner be detached? If so, where? 



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 plants to be watered? 



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 the foliage of plants without any injury. 

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 chemical fertilizer should not be put closer 

 than from six to eight inches to the plant. 

 The object is to let the soil take up the 

 leachings, and by the time this process 

 takes place the roots of the plants will be 

 ready to absorb it. 



2. It is not necessary to sever the 

 young runner plants from the mother 



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plant. After the young plant becomes 

 rooied it draws very little, if any, nourish- 

 ment from the mother plant. 



3. If irrigating is done at all, it should 

 be done before the ground gets very dry. 

 Apply water every two or three weeks, 

 and at each irrigation see that the soil is 

 soaked clear down to sub-soil. 



C. B. W. , Denver, Colo. I never have seen 

 anything in The Strawberry about irrigating 

 plants with water pumped from a well, and as 

 this means of getting water here in Colorado 

 is coming into use, it might be of interest to 

 some here, myself especially, to have the 

 opinions of some of the readers on this matter. 

 I have a piece of ground that I can irrigate by 

 pumping the water from a well only about 

 twelve feet deep. Now I am somewhat afraid 

 the water might be too cold, as it is about 48 

 degrees F. as it leaves the pump, but on other 

 things in the garden, such as cucumbers, 

 tomatoes and melons, if the water is put on 

 before noon so the soil will get warm again 

 before night, these and other truck do not 

 seem to mind the cold water. Now I should 

 like to know if the cold water will check the 

 berries so they would not produce a good 

 crop.' I have a gasoline engine and pump 

 that will throw about 120 gallons per minute, 

 so it would not take long to go over a large 

 piece of ground. If any of the readers have 

 any information on this subject would they 

 kindly let others know their experience? 



If water at 48 degrees F. were pumped 

 directly upon the plants, it would not be 

 a good thing for them, but as irrigation of 

 the strawberry is done by running water 

 through a furrow made in the center of 

 the space between the rows, the tempera- 

 ture of the water will have become nor- 

 mal before the water reaches the roots of 

 the plants, and tiiere is no reason for 

 thinking that the plants would suffer in 

 the least or the maturing of the fruit be 

 checked by this proceeding. We shall 

 be glad to have our readers in the irrigat- 

 ing districts discuss the question raised by 

 our Denver correspondent. 



B. T. W., Vernon, B. C. Does nitrate of soda 

 applied alone exhaust the soil.' If so, why.' 

 2. If not, how has the supposition that it 

 does got about? 



Experiments we have made with nitrate 

 of soda go to show that it does not stim- 

 ulate the soil, but does stimulate the veg- 

 etative part of the (ilants. Immediately 

 after moisuire has dissolved the nitrates it 

 becomes available and the plants at once 

 take it up, and when entirely exhausted 

 the plants cease growing so vigorously as 

 when feeding upon it. The soil is then 

 left in the same condition as it was before 

 applying the nitrate of soda. The prin- 

 cipal ohject in using nitrate of soda is to 

 force the vegetative parts to rapid and 

 strong growth; also to hasten the maturing 



