\ September Scene <>'• «*»♦• Townsend Farm. 



Thi« is the first thought with me. I want to know that the seed I am going to plant 

 eood as can be grown. >o matter what the cost. I count the price of good seed a se< 

 sideration The same applies to all kinds of plants and nursery stock. The cost of prod", 

 being the same whether we - quarts of strawberries per acre 



the few dollars spent in the way of bett< sight of in the big 



vields, and big profits in the end. 



In regard to strawberries I am asked this question many times during the year: <;<i. you 

 tell me why certain varieties are running down? Why they do not bear merly 



did? THISis a very easy question for one to answer if he has given it a little thought and has 

 been a close friend of his berry patch. Here is the answer: When strawberry plants fail to fruit 

 it indicates that they have I wakened through care ing and imprope: 



of the breeding bed. 



Runner plants always inherit the characteristics of the mother plant, thereto: 

 come'from unfruitful plants will be unfruitful. If a plant becomes so weakened that it no I 

 sends up a fruit, but system, its energies will be thrown to the multiplication of barren plants, 

 and as these barren plants make a great many more runners than the fruitful plants, 

 have a monopolv. And plants taken from these beds year after year, without any sei 

 whatever, it is but a natural consequence that the variety must r later run out, a£ 



called. Labor and money spent in the growing of those kinds of pal at thrown aw 



On the other hand, if a grower is particular enough in the selection of his plants he 

 always improve any variety instead of letting it run down. Here is the method I use in 

 to build up better and more fruitful strains of plants: I have a - plot each season that 1 



use to grow my stock plants. I never set out the plants in this plot until the plants in t: 

 breeding bed have made sufficient gro at I can easily select my best plants, always sure 



to get nothing for this plot but what has a good strong fruit b ting the 1. 



! ways the plants nearest the mother plant. By this meai :sonally I 



plant is a fruitful plant. This method is car: to year and is proving 



1 for me. I am not only keeping my plants up to the st ut I can see a v. 



Improvement in the most of the varieties in a of this kind. I find by this 



method of breeding that the higher breed the plant is the fewer rum 

 part of the growth Is spent in build: ' fruit b 



freely, as is done in the wild or the variety that has alm<- 



carelessri' 



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