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GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 19 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
STEVENS' LATE CHAMPION IN INDIANA 
"pHE above illustration is from a photograph sent us by Will F. Sanders of Rochester, Indiana. He grows strawberries for 
market on an extensive scale. Mr. Sanders writes that practically all the plants he grows are propagated from our Thor- 
oughbreds and although the above picture illustrates a block of Stevens' Late Champion only, he employs Dunlap, Warfield, 
Haverland, Bubach, Dornan. Gandy, Aroma, Sample and others of our plants. Mr. Sanders' field illustrates the extraordinary 
possibilities of commercial strawberry growing where the grower knows his business from A to Z. 
fruit is picked and burn over the bed. Spray- 
ing with arsenate of lead just at the time the 
roller or saw-fly begin to hatch will prevent 
either from doing any great injury. If you 
have a small patch, just go over the plants 
and kill the roller by pressing the folded leaf 
between the finger and thumb. This will 
keep the rollers from pupating, and also will 
keep them from folding other leaves. 
'pHERE are several different families of 
beetles; most of them are hai'd-shelled 
insects, very small bugs, and their larvje are 
small and look like grubs. The beetles 
BeeUe Work upon the foliage, while their lar- 
vae feed from the roots of the plants. 
Spraying with arsenate of lead will destroy 
the beetles, and this in turn will dispose of 
their larva?. A safe preventive is the burning 
over the plants after the fruit is picked; an- 
other is the rotating of crops. 
nPHE white grub is a large, whitish insect 
with a yellow head, about one inch long. 
It works upon the roots of the plants and 
sometimes causes quite a little 
damage. They are hard to get at 
on account of their underground 
habit. They are hatched from eggs laid by 
the May beetle or June bug. These eggs gen- 
The 
White Grub 
erally are deposited in weedy fence corners 
and in old manure piles. Sometimes the grub 
is carried to the farm by spreading manure 
which has lain in piles for a year or more. If 
this manure was spread in the winter during 
the freezing weather, there would be no dan- 
ger of carrying the grubs because they would 
be destroyed by freezing. Late fall plowing 
is a good preventive against the grub. Avoid 
using old timothy-sod ground for plants. 
A NTS about the strawberry patch are the 
almost unfailing indication of the pres- 
ence of aphis or root lice. These lice are 
Black sucking insects; they have sharp beaks 
Ants which sink deeply into the roots of the 
plants from which they suck the juices. 
The lice cannot travel from the roots of one 
plant to another, so the ants carry them, and 
for pay the latter secure the sweet honey- 
like substance which comes from the lice. If 
you will follow intensive cultural methods, 
the repeated cultivations and hoeings will 
discourage the ants and they will seek other 
quarters; and when the ants are gone the lice 
soon disappear. (See Page 42.) 
I EAF-SPOT is sometimes called rust, it is a 
'-^ fungous growth which spreads by spores. 
These spores are very sensitive to copper; 
