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Photo of a Well Grown Field of Select Strain Strawberry Plants 



Strawberry Culture Directions - Continued from Page 48 



CULTIVATION. Tillage in newly planted strawberry fields 

 or the garden, should start within ten days after the pknts 

 are planted into your soil. In commercial plantings, horse 

 drawn cultivators are used, also garden tractors and lic;ht two 

 row tractor cultivators. In the home garden, a small hand 

 cultivator with two handles works very nicely. Plants should 

 be hand hoed after the first cultivation, so as to break any 

 crust that may form and to preserve moisture. Strawberry 

 plants should be either cultivated or hoed every week or ten 

 days, until the bed is formed about 30 inches wide, then 

 usually the hoe work drops out about mid-July and the cultiva- 

 tor will take care of the cultivation. Keep all weeds and 

 grass out of your strawberry patch. 



Keep in mind with using the cultivator to use same shallow, 

 this applies to the hoe also. Strawberries like shallow, but 

 frequent cultivation. 



REMOVING BLOSSOMS. After your plants become start- 

 ed after planting, there wiK appear on the plant 'flower stems 

 commonly known as blossoms,' keep all blossoms removed 

 from the plant soon as they appear. If blossoms are left on 

 the plants, then the plants will become stunted. It requires 

 only a little work and is a important factor in growing straw- 

 berries. 



EVERBEARING VARIETIES and BLOSSOMS. KEEP ALL 

 BLOSSOMS REMOVED EROM YOUR NEWLY SET 

 PLANTS UNTIL THE LATTER PART OF JUNE. This will 

 let your plants become permanently established quickly. After 

 this date let the blossoms remain on the plants and they will 

 form into berries for your late Summer and Fall harvest. 



FERTILIZING IN THE FALL. Putting an application of 

 5-8-12 commercial fertilizer on your strawberry field in the fall 

 will make the grower larger profits than spring fertilizing. 

 We have found that an application of the above fertilizer at 

 the rate of 800 to 1,000 pounds per acre, applied on the beds 

 the latter part of August up until September 10th, will make 

 your fruit buds in the strawberry plants larger, and at the same 

 time make you more fruit buds, for your coming Spring berry- 

 crop. 



Apply the fertilizer, on the foliage when the foliage of the 

 plants are PERFECTLY DRY, and then use a bush or burlap 

 bag and gentlv brush the fertilizer off the plants foliage, so 

 fertilizer will not 'burn the plants.' In the Spring apply only 

 400 pounds of a 6-8-6 analysis fertilizer to the acre, when the 

 plants are dormant, usually about MARCH 1st, in normal 

 Spring. 



The home gardener can use the same practice as described 

 above for field culture using 2V 2 pounds fertilizer per 100 

 square feet of space planted to strawberries. In the Spring 

 apply about ONE POUND per the 100 square feet. For the 

 home gardener, when there has not been any fertilizer applied 

 to the strawberry beds in the FALL, then we recommend 3 

 pounds of 6-8-6 fertilizer applied in the late winter or very 

 earlv Spring, before the buds start growth. When the above 

 mixtures are not available in fertilizers, we then recommend 

 that you use VIGORO, adding 30 percent more than you do 

 the above mixtures. 



Territorial Adaptability of Townsend's Varieties Strawber 



Varieties marked with * are the leaders and ones most widely planted 



,. . . , r Season 



Variety Approved For of Ripening 



Arrowhead All States except Florida — Gulf States Mid-Season 



Blakemore All States except New England, N..Y., Penna. Extra Early 



Big Joe All berry sections except extreme South Mid-Season 



Catskill All States except extreme South. A favorite _ Mid-Season 



Chesapeake New England, W. Va., Ohio, 111., Penna.. N. Y., Ind., Wis. Late 



Dorsett All strawberry sections except Fla. and Ga. Early 



Evermore, Everbearing Central, Western, and all Northern States Fall' 



'Fairfax All States except Fla. and Gulf States Earlv 



Fairland W. Va., Ohio, Penna., N. Y., N. J., Md., New England States Early 



Fairpeake Being tested, widely favors Central and Northern States Late' 



Gandy All States east of M'iss. River, except Ga., Fla., La Late 



Gem, Everbearing Planted in all States except the South Fall 



Gemzata, Everbearing All States except Fla. and Ga. Fall 



Howard 17 (One and the same variety as PREMIER) Early 



Lupton Del., N. J., Penna., Ohio, W. Va., Conn. Late" 



Mastodon, Everbearing _.A11 States except in warm Southern sections Fall 



Midland Wherever PREMIER will grow. 



(All sections except deep South and Far West) Early 



Missionary Fla., N. C, S. C, La., Texas Early 



Premier All sections except extreme South Earlv 



Polar Queen The ONE AND ONLY NATIONALLY PLANTED STRAW BERRY Early 



Senator Dunlap Kansas, Iowa, Mo.. Mich.. Ind., 111., Wis., Ohio Mid-St.ison 



Sparkle Mo., Kan., Ohio, W. Va., Va., Penna., N. Y., N. J., N. Eng. States —Mid-Season 



Streamliner, Everbearing _ All States except Fla., Ga., La., Miss. Fall 



Temple All States except the deep Southern States Early 



Town-King All States except Gulf States Late 



XTralate All States except Gulf and Southern States Extra I at* 



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