GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1914, by R. M. KelloKgr Co., Three Rivers, Mich, 
SOJfE TYPICAI, WM. BELTS GROWN IN OHIO 
NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that his strawberry plants were frozen stiff In the heavy frost of May 13. 
■^^ 1914. Mr. D. A. Dickinson of Lima. Ohio, secured some wonderful fruit which drew out considerable 
newspaper comment in liis neigliborliood. Writing us June 20th. Mr. Dicl\inson says: "The wonder to me 
is how any l>lossoms escaped, but in spite of all their hardships, we had 100 quarts of berries from our 
little patch, and four-flfths of them were extra fancy. June 4th we picked four quarts of Wm. Belt 
berries, eleven of v/hich placed in a line measured 23V2 inches; seven of them measured 16 inches, and five 
measured a trifle more than 12 inches. Three of them weighed a quarter of a pound. I had quarts of these 
fancy berries. No photograph can do them justice, because no photograph can show the color, which was 
particularly fine, as well as was the flavor. The plants I bought from you this spring are simply fine. I 
set out 3300. and only seven failed to grow. I have them set 15x15 inches, and hundreds of them measure 
Irom 16 to 18 inches across the top; many of them have three large crowns, and some of them four crowns. 
a web in the leaf which folds the leaf together. 
No poison will affect the roller after the leaf 
is folded. 
The White Grub. — This is a universal and 
most persistent enemy of the strawberry and, 
as it resides deeply in the ground, it is very 
difficult to reach. In fact, the only safe way 
is to free the soil from the grub before the 
plants are set. Late in the fall preceding the 
setting out of the plants plow the ground and 
bring the grub to the surface. If the weather is 
very cold when this is done, many of the grubs 
will be frozen. To add to the assurance of 
their extermination it will be well to turn in 
hogs, or poultry, or both, while the plowing is 
going forward. As the white grub is a delicious 
morsel to both poultry and hogs, they will be 
gi-eedily devoured by the animals. After the 
plants are growing in the spring, if the white 
grub be found in the plot, the only thing to do 
is to dig down to the roots of any plant ap- 
parently affected by the grub, catch the grub 
and kill him. 
The Root Louse. — This very small but insid- 
ious foe, doing its work on the roots of the 
plants, is known in the books as the aphis, 
because it is the friend (aphides) of the ant, 
and supplies the latter with the sweetness that 
inheres in the roots of the strawberry plant. 
The lice have no means of locomotion, but are 
carried on the backs of the ants from plant to 
plant. It the surface of the ground about the 
plants constantly is stirred, the ants soon will 
be driven out, and this will result in the de- 
struction of the louse. A simple preventive 
that keeps the root lice from attacking the 
plants is tobacco tea, which is made by boiling 
one pound of tobacco stems in five gallons of 
water for twenty minutes. Let this cool and 
then, just before the plants are set, dip the 
roots up to the crown. Tobacco is so offensive 
to the lice that they will never touch a root 
thus treated. 
Preventing Plant Diseases. — Spraying the 
plants with lime-sulphur solution is now recog- 
nized as one of the most effective preventives 
against all forms of fungous diseases. We ad- 
vise our patrons to purchase the prepared lime- 
sulphur solution, unless they are very extensive 
growers and require very large quantities of 
spraying materials. Two gallons of the pre- 
pared solution will thoroughly impregnate fifty 
gallons of water, and the standard preparations 
made by the reliable chemists are likely to be 
better than those made by a novice. Leaf spot, 
or rust, is a fungous growth which spreads by 
spores. The spot looks like iron rust with a 
white dot in the center. This rust if permitted 
to spread, will do great injury, as the disease 
eats into the tissue of the leaf, greatly inter- 
fering with its growth. Another injurious dis- 
ease is mildew or leaf-curl. Examine the leaf 
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