NEW YORK. 
MEDIUM TO LATE. Bl-sexual. A strictly fancy 
berry and a prize winner; It is simply grand, one of 
cur pets. The berries are all big, bright red fel- 
lows that sell at first sight. It has a lasting flavor 
that wins customers, and Is Just the kind to make 
the berry grower famous. Small, interior berries have 
no show beside the New York no matter how cheap 
they are; it is very proliflc, with a long season of 
ripening. It has a most luxuriant foliage of light 
green, and when loaded with its big, bright colored 
berries It Is such a grand sight that It wins friends 
wherever grown. The plants from this variety have 
been selected in our breeding bed five years, and Its 
behavior is the same at our Covington trial beds. 
always fired his revolver two or three times 
from the window each night to scare any 
burglar that might chance to be prowling 
around, admitting that he would rather be 
called a coward than to get licked. Different 
methods must be followed than those used in 
the orchard, inasmuch as the strawberry is 
continually making new plants. To make sure 
that every leaf is kept copper plated the ma- 
chine is kept busy nearly all the time, using 
Bordeaux mixture with seven ounces of Paris 
green to each fifty gallons; this amount of 
arsenite can only be used when the Paris 
green is dissolved with lime while slacking it; 
this neutralizes the acid completely and avoids 
the danger of burning the foliage; otherwise 
we could only use four ounces to each barrel. 
We want to make it strong enough in the 
arsenite so if any leaf eating insect should put 
in its appearance it would only be necessary 
to feed it one meal. It is our aim to be very 
sociable, but we are too busy to entertain 
any one of the insect family. In starting the 
spray machine immediately after the plants 
are set, Bordeaux mixture with Paris green 
is used twice; after the second time we follow 
with liver of sulphur spray as a protection 
from fungi of the mildew class, using this 
after every two sprayings of the Bordeaux 
mixture. We do not care to have anything 
in the nature of fungi or insects tampering 
with the lungs and stomach (foliage) of our 
plants, as it requires a healthy, vigorous foli- 
age to digest the food, breathe in car- 
bonic acid gas and pump up moisture to 
UP-TO-DATE. 
MEDIUM TO LATE. Bl-sexual. Quite hardy In 
blossom, very proliflc of light red berries of high 
quality, and a most splendid family variety, as the 
fruit is rich and meaty. The foliage Is light green 
with a large, long leaf, with long stems which pro- 
tects both bloom and berries from frost and hot sun. 
This Is the 9th year of selection from Ideal fruiters. 
keep all machinery of the plant working har- 
moniously, which builds up a well balanced 
and perfectly developed plant. We are so 
thoroughly convinced of the merits of spray- 
ing that we have equipped our farm with an 
entire new outfit, consisting of a building 
20x40 feet, which is located in the center of 
the farm, a drive well with force pump which 
throws the water direct into the spray barrel, 
a stove for heating water to slack the lime, 
a power machine having a gearing on the axle 
which operates the pump, giving even pres- 
sure all the time, thus covering every plant 
evenly with a perfect mist; also mixing barrels 
and scales. Everything is so convenient that 
one man sprays eighty acres in three days. 
We have never urged the berry growers to 
spray their fruiting beds where they use 
healthy plants that have been thoroughly 
sprayed in the propagating bed, and yet we 
admit that if they would continue the spraying 
in the fruiting bed it would lessen any danger 
of attack. Whether spraying is kej t up or 
not by the grower, we do advise that they 
mow off the leaves after first fruiting season 
and when they are dry burn the entire field 
over when the wind is blowing briskly, so as 
to drive the fire over quickly; then there is no 
danger ot injuring the crowns. (See article 
on treating the old bed.) 
SPRAY RECEIPTS. 
For one barrel of Bordeaux inixture: 
4 lbs. lime slacked in 4 gals, hot water. 
4 lbs. blue vitrol dissolved in 4 gals, water. 
7 ounces Paris green and I pound good un- 
slacked lime. 
Put the Paris green on the lime and slack 
with enough hot water to cover well. Mix as 
follows: Put 10 gallons of water in the barrel, 
to which add the 4 gallons of blue vitrol solu- 
tion and another 10 gallons of water, then the 
4 gallons of lime solution and 10 gallons mort 
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