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GEORGE CREWS, ELKVILLE, ILL., GROWS KELLOGG THOROUGHBREDS EXCLUSIVELY 
Bordeaux 
and 
Paris Green 
"gun" and "fire away." For fungous growths, 
such as mildew, blight and rust, Bordeaux 
mixture should be brought into action at first 
sight. Like Davy Crock- 
ett's coon, they'll come 
down if you do. Bordeaux 
mixture is made as follows: 
four pounds unslaked lime in four gallons water, 
four pounds blue vitriol dissolved in four gallons 
water, to which add sufficient water to make 
one barrel of forty gallons. For any leaf-eating 
insect use Paris green, which should be mixed as 
follows: take one pound unslaked lime; put 
over this seven ounces of Paris green and pour 
over this two gallons of hot water; to which add 
water to make fifty gallons. Should both 
insects and fungi be present on the vines, the 
Paris green may be added to the Bordeaux 
mixture and applied at one spraying. That is 
to s'ay, the seven ounces of Paris green, after 
dissolved with one pound of lime in two gallons 
of hot water, may be added to the forty gallons 
of Bordeaux mixture. 
'CVER'YBODY takes a personal pride in a 
record-breaking crop, and in order to secure 
this result with strawberries the first thing to be 
considered is well-developed plants; next comes 
well-prepared soil; then good cultural methods, 
taking care to see that all bloom is removed the 
first season, as well as all surplus runners. 
But in addition to all these there are certain 
courses of treatment which may not be accu- 
rately prescribed, but which depend upon the 
condition of the plants themselves and upon 
weather and atmospheric conditions. These 
must be worked out by each grower for himself, 
although here may be indicated the symptoms, 
as it were, by which he may be guided. For 
instance, as soon as the plant commences build- 
ing up its fruit-bud system, thecrown will begin 
to expand and the plant will start to spread. 
As soon as this bud develop- 
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should be reduced, culti- j.|.gp 
vating sufficiently only to 
keep down weeds and prevent crust from form- 
ing. If cultivation be too frequent at this 
period it will encourage vegetative growth at 
the expense of the fruit-bearing organism. Fol- 
lowing this simple rule will result in building 
up heavy fruit-bud systems in both the mother 
and the runner plants, and this is the prime 
essential to a big crop of fruit. 
I F in the spring the foliage is found to be 
lacking, this may be forced to meet the re- 
quirements of the fruit-bud system by applying 
forty or fifty pounds of nitrate of soda to each 
acre of plants as soon as growth starts in the 
spring, repeating this treatment just before buds 
open. Foliage also may be increased, as well 
as the size of the berry, by raking the mulching 
up close to the rows and cultivating between 
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