GREAT CROPS OP STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1914, b.v R. M. Kciloeg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
A TABLE BASKET OF LONGFELLOWS 
¥ ONGFELLOW is just as good as it looks, whether you consider it from the size, form and color ot the 
berry or the vast quantities of fruit it yields. The season of this great variety is very early to late, and 
the amount of fruit it produces each season few varieties ever excel. In form the fruit is long and of a 
perfect strawberry type. • In color it is dark red. and this color extends from circumference to center. In 
flavor It is as rich as any variety we ever have tasted, and is very mild and sweet. It is a profuse bloomer 
and every bioom is perfect, making it an ideal pollen'zer of pistillates of the early and mid-season. We 
have been selecting and fruiting this variety since I90.'», and since first offering it to the public its popularity 
steadily has increased, and those most familiar with It are its friends. Grown at Three Rivers and Twin Falls. 
grown with less work and less worry than 
could be done with cheap plants or with plants 
taken from their own fruiting beds. 
Spraying Strawberry Plants 
FOR the benefit of those who find it neces- 
sary to spray, we give here formulas for 
the control of both insects and plant diseases. 
All leaf-chewing insects which eat holes in 
the leaves of plants may be destroyed by spray- 
ing with arsenate of lead. Put three pounds of 
arsenate of lead in a two or three-gallon bucket 
and moisten it with hot water, and pulverize 
with mallet or old potato masher. Continue 
adding hot water and pulverizing until you 
have a creamy solution, and until all of the 
lead is dissolved and taken up by the water. 
Add water and stir until the bucket is full. 
When cool, pour this into ,50 gallons of cold 
water. Spray it over the plants, and when 
spraying keep the solution well stirred so the 
poison will be well incorporated with the water, 
and spray thoroughly. See that every leaf is 
covered. 
The Saw-Fly. — The first insect that appears 
upon the scene in the spring is a little gray- 
green worm, which for some reason we cannot 
explain is called the saw-fly. This insect rolls 
up like a snail on the under side of the leaves, 
through which it eats, leaving many small 
holes. It does not remain long and seldom does 
serious injury. As in the case of other leaf- 
eating insects, arsenate of lead Is the remedy 
for the saw-fly. The beetle, of which there are 
several families, are hard-shelled bugs, very 
small in size. The larvae look like grubs. The 
beetles work upon the foliage while their larvae 
feed upon the roots of the plants. Spraying 
with arsenate of lead will destroy the beetles, 
which will in turn dispose of their larvae. 
But where these liave been present on the vines 
during the fruiting season the vines should be 
burned over after the fruit is picked. 
The Leaf Roller. — This is a universal pest of 
the strawberry. For this insect arsenic should 
be added to the mixture of arsenate of lead as 
above described. In preparing the arsenic, take 
one pound of the poison, two pounds of sal 
soda and one gallon of water; boil until all 
are completely dissolved. When cool use 1% 
pints of this solution, 214 pounds of arsenate of 
lead (the latter being prepared as described In 
the paragraph above), and two pounds of lump- 
lime, slaking the lime before using, of course. 
This combination is a very rank poison and 
must be handled with great care. As a rule, 
there are two broods of the leaf-roller each 
season in sections north of the Ohio river. 
The first hatches from .lune 1 to 10, the second 
brood in the latter part of .Tuly or early August. 
At the first sign of the rolling of the leaf get 
out your spraying material and see that every 
plant is thoroughly covered with the spray 
mixture. Immediately after hatching It weaves 
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