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Crescent for a fertilizer tlian the Wilson? The Wilson makes a slow 

 growth and winter kills. I have learned by experience that I am 

 going over too much ground for the amount of Ituit. Tuis season 

 I raised 4,000 quarts of strawberries to the acre. In the future I 

 am going to try for 6,000 quarts to the acre. It will cost no more 

 for cultivation. I shall set sixty rods of raspberries this fall with 

 the intention of seeing how many berries I can raise to the rod. 



Mr. S. H. Dawes of Harrison, who is one of the most enthusias- 

 tic and succfssful fruit gtt)wers in the Slate has tested a large num- 

 ber of varieties, but as will be seen by what he recommends that 

 he does not consider the list of profitable varieties a very large one. 

 Here follows abstracts from his paper and his list : 



I commenced the cultivation of strawberries about seventeen 

 yeais ago with what was then called the Green Prolific, and soon 

 learned that it was a fraud and that there was nothing prolific about 

 it. I then tiled several other varieties, among which was that good 

 old stai.db}', the Wilson, which was the best of them all then, and 

 is as good now as it ever was. I believe the most we read and hear 

 about the deterioration of this and that kind of fruit is nothing but 

 starvation ; and if you can procure good, health}' Wilson plants, 

 and not starve them to death, they will produce as well now as they 

 ever did. I continued their cultivation for my main crop, and was 

 quite successful in a small way, but was all the time fooling with all 

 the new sorts I could hear of till I was induced by one of my 

 friends to try a few plants of the Crescent Seedling. I received the 

 plants quite early in the spring, and was forcibly impressed with 

 their inferior looks, and had many misgivings in regard to them ; 

 but I set them out and gave them the same cultivation that I did 

 my others, and they grew and multiplied wonderfully, and when 

 they came to bear the following season the vines were a complete 

 mass of fruit and astonished all that saw them. I have continued 

 their cultivation from that time to the present and they show no 

 sign of deterioration, for my crop was the best this (1893) season 

 that it ever was since I have been in the business. I know that 

 many claim that the}' must be fertilized with some staminate sort, 

 in order to give the best results. I have experimented somewhat, 

 in order to satisfy myself on this point, and have arrived at the fol- 

 lowing conclusion : that I can raise more Iruit at less cost with the 

 Crescent Seedling without any staminate sort near them, than I can 

 with any other variety I have ever tested. But from the experi- 

 ments I have tried the last few years, I am equally well satisfied 



