NICK OHMER (B). 
MEDIUM TO LATE. Now in general cultivation. 
Large, bright red. Requires strong, rich land when it 
meets full expectations. Not desirable for light sand or 
poor soil. Pedigree, six years. 
CARE OF AN OLD BED. 
When a plant has borne a large crop of ber- 
ries its internal machinery is worn out which is 
another term used for exhaustion. 
The sexual organs of a strawberry are in the 
flowers, but back of that is the machinery 
which makes the flowers and the plant must 
be built over during the summer and fall. It 
will generally pay to grow two and often three 
crops before plowing under, but a crop of 
from three to five hundred bushels is a severe 
strain and unless the ground is very rich so 
plants can be recuperated it will general- 
ly pay better to renew at the close of 
second crop. If you decide to plow un- 
der, do it at once. First put on all 
the manure you can, then turn under and 
sow to cow peas. Plow these under as early 
as October ist and sow not less than three 
bushels of rye per acre. This will protect the 
surface of the soil from pattering rain drops 
and running water which puddles the surface 
and injures land seriously during the winter. 
Spread any manure you have on the rye dur- 
ing the winter. Do not leave in piles, but 
spread at once so the rain will wash the juices 
into the ground then plow again in the early 
spring and you may re-set the land, but if you 
can spare it for another year add more manure 
and sow cow peas again. This is the way to 
treat soil to make it produce the biggest crops. 
Don't starve your land; keep something grow- 
ing on it all the time and make humus. 
Itnmediately after the last picking put on 
the mowing machine or scythe and mow off 
the top. The leaves have done their work and 
are of little use to the plant and a careful se- 
ries of experiments proves to me that they had 
better be removed and place given to new 
ones. The old leaves are weak and tissues 
more or less broken and dead and since fungi 
PRESIDENT (B). 
LATE. The executive variety. Introduced last year. 
It is a seedling of the Crescent fertilized with Nick 
Ohmer, a parentage that could give it a boom. Its ber- 
ries are large, clear bright red and of a most delicious 
aromatic flavor. It will be especially fine for serving with 
.stems. Bear in mind berries of this kind sell at double 
prices and picking costs only a little more. 
always feeds on decayed matter it attacks them 
vigorously and the spores of rust from these 
old leaves will attack the new foliage; and as 
insects are always prowling around I have 
found it profitable to burn over the old bed 
every year, even if I were going to plow it un- 
der at once. The labor of doing so is not so 
much as pulling out the weeds. The larvae of 
leaf rollers and slugs are in the leaves at this 
time and all are destroyed. We only need 
enough rubbish to burn the row over. If there 
is heavy mulching a part can be removed and 
piled up for next winter. 
Stir up the mulch and if there is not too 
much of it put it on the row and when dry, 
set fire. It is better to have a strong wind so 
it will pass over rapidly. If there are trees or 
buildings on the windward side, back-fire a 
short distance. Be on hand with a fork to stir 
up and keep the fire going. 
A person who has never done this work 
would feel the whole patch was dead, but in a 
few days you will see the green leaves peeping 
up and in two or three weeks the leaves will 
be out in force and as green and healthy as 
any spring set plants. If it is a very dry tiine 
they will start slowly, but be patient. They 
will spring up as soon as rain comes. If you 
have grown them in the hedge row, you need 
only cultivate, breaking the ground quite deep- 
ly, but first put on any manure you may have 
If it is rotted, put on liberally, or put on a 
good, strong dose of high grade commercial 
fertilizer. Be liberal with it. Anywhere from 
three to ten hundred pounds to the acre. The 
latter amount will pay the biggest dividends 
Vyork It into the soil thoroughly, but do not 
disturb the plants too much. 
Some people put on a spike tooth harrow and 
tear the surface to pieces. I don't like to do 
this, It is too harsh. I prefer to treat plants 
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