Dorsett and Fairfax Still Ahead 



The continued superiority of Dorsett and Fair- 

 fax over all other early varieties is the outstand- 

 ing feature of the trial plots this year. As is 

 shown in the table, all varieties have given a 

 very marked increase in total yield, but when 

 the grade of berries and other factors are con- 

 sidered, Dorsett and Fairfax are still far in the 

 leail. To test variety responses to very dry and 

 very wet conditions, no two better years than 

 1932 and 1933 could have been selected. 



Catskill. Next to Fairfax and Dorsett, the 

 variety that attracted most attention among a 

 number of large commercial growers who vis- 

 ited these plots at fruiting time was New York 

 Seedling No. 4435. This has since been named 

 "Catskill." For anyone interested in a new and 

 better mid-season berry. Catskill will bear watch- 

 ing. Read about this variety on page 2(J. 



What's in a Name? 



Orem (Frostking) For one reason or an- 



Ridgelj- (Jupiter) other, these present-day 



Lupton (Townking) varieties have been in- 



Marshnll (Banner) troduced under two or 



Howard 17 (Premier) more names. 

 Chesapeake (Lateberry) 

 Senator Dnnlap (Dr. Burrell) 

 Progressive (Champion, Imperial) 

 Big Joe (Joe, Joe Johnson, New Hope) 

 Parsons Beauty (Gibson, Pocomoke, Sussex) 

 Big Late (Kellogg's Big Late, Townsend's Big 



Late) 

 New York (Corsican, Uncle Jim, Oswego, Arm- 

 strong) 



Seeing Is Believing 



"We were very much pleased to welcome a 

 number of our customers -who visited our trial 

 plots last May. In addition to our 1933 trial beds 

 which will be bearing their second crop, we now 

 have some excellent fruiting beds of about forty- 

 five of the leading standard and new varieties, 

 and about 160 seedlingrs selected from thousands 

 at the breeding plots of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. These beds will bear their first 

 crop in May and June, 1934. There will be lots 

 of valuable information to be had from visiting 

 these plots. Come and see them! "We want you 

 to have the information and we want to welcome 

 you. We expect to pass along this information 

 in our 1935 catalogue, but come in May and you 

 gain nearly a year. Besides, SEEING IS BE- 

 LIEVING. Best date, May 25th. 



Lessons From the Two-Year- 

 Old Trial Beds 



After fruiting in 1932, no attention was given 

 our trial beds until March, 1933. At that time 

 the old weeds were pulled out, the middles of the 

 rows cultivated, and the beds given an applica- 

 tion of about 400 pounds per acre of a 5-8-5 

 fertilizer. 



No actual yield records were kept from these 

 beds, but close study revealed the fact that Dor- 

 sett, Fairfax, Blakemore, and Chesapeake were 

 unusually good as two-year beds. Big Joe, Lup- 

 ton, Beauty, and Southland were moderately 

 good as two-year beds, while Premier, Bellmar, 

 Howard Supreme, Aberdeen, Ridgely (Jupiter), 

 and Big Lake produced a very poor crop the 

 second year. 



For a long time Premier has been generally 

 recognized as the most valuable all-around early 

 berry, but its inability to hold up satisfactorily 

 the second year has been noted by many growers. 

 It is interesting to note that many of those varie- 

 ties which are of least value as second-year beds 

 behave like Premier; that is, they set tremendous 

 numbers of berries, many of which cannot pos- 

 sibly size up enough to be marketable, and thus 

 bear themselves out so much that they appar- 

 ently cannot come back the second year. Dor- 

 sett and Fairfax, on the other hand, set a rela- 

 tively small number of berries per plant, but are 

 able to mature practically all of them to a good 

 marketable size without wasting very much of 

 their tremendous vitality in producing worthless 

 fruit. It is only natural, therefore, that they 

 should be able to come back strong the second 

 year. Chesapeake, likewise, by setting a small 

 number of berries per plant, is able to size up 

 practically all of its fruit. It was even better 

 the second year (wet) than it was the first (dry). 

 Chesapeake, however, is not always able to equal 

 some of the others in production. Fairfax and 

 Dorsett, on the other hand, have not so far failed 

 to equal the "heavy setters" in total yield, and 

 the grade of berries simply outclasses the other 

 early kinds on their showing up to this time. 



Blakemore berries were larger on the old beds 

 (wet year) than they were on the young beds 

 (dry year). "We feel Blakemore will be dis- 

 appointing in dry years unless the plants are 

 kept well thinned. 



A Fine Crop in Prospect 



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