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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 31 
Ripe Enhance Strawberries m October. 
M. M., Englewood, N. J.—C. W. C., 
Sac City, la., in The R. N.-Y., of October 
10, says, “ Who ever had the pleasure of 
eating strawberries in September ? ” 
Well, we have, and also the pleasure of 
eating them in October, and picking 
quarts of them right here in old New 
Jersey two miles from the Hudson River, 
right in sight of the broad Atlantic, and 
only a few miles north of the Rural 
Grounds. As proof of it, I send you a 
photograph (see Fig. 235, page 719) of 
them, reduced one-half size. We are 
also picking them October 7 and 8 These 
are the Eahance. We picked plenty of 
Beder Wood in September, and these 
were mostly grown from two-year-old 
plants. 
These plants grew a big crop in June 
and July, and now the plants of Enhance 
are filled with ripe and green fruit and 
flowers, which, by the way, were very 
much disturbed by the first killing frost 
which occurred October 8 But this morn¬ 
ing, October 10, there is still much ripe 
fruit concealed beneath the leaves. This, 
to my mind, proves that two crops of ber¬ 
ries can be grown in a moist season, or 
every season, by irrigation, and I be¬ 
lieve that strawberry growing, in the 
coming generation, will be done in a 
more scientific way, to meet the ever- 
crying demand from that plant, Water ! 
Water ! Water ! The situation will be 
selected right, and artificial methods 
will be used, and more intelligence will 
be at the command of the future berry 
grower. A majority of these berries 
measured over one inch in diameter, 
worth, in Englewood, $2 per quart. 
Late Berries in Indiana. 
A. W. R., Wolcottville, Ind. —I wish 
to tell C. W. C. of our strawberries. I 
have one bed of three-fourths acre, 
which has fruited two seasons. After 
fruiting in June, it was burned over 
and cultivated. This, with the rainy 
weather, produced a most vigorous 
growth of vines. The first of Septem¬ 
ber, we began picking berries, one or 
two quarts at a time, increasing till, one 
day, we picked 12 quarts. The last 
were picked October 7, four quarts. We 
picked in all 60 quarts ; the varieties were 
Beder Wood, Jessie, and Cumberland. 
Strawberry Shortcake in October. 
J. W. G., IlUBBABDSTON, MlCH.— I 
think that I can beat C. W. C. I had 
strawberries in September, also in Octo¬ 
ber, grown in the open field. From four 
rows of Enhance, about 100 feet long, 
October 4, we picked two quarts ; Octo¬ 
ber 7, one quart ; October 11, one quart, 
and October 16, three quarts—nice, 
large, fresh berries, and more to ripen. 
How is this, a good, large shortcake 
October 16 ? 
The Crawford an “ Everbearer.” 
G. B., Milan, O.—I never had ripe 
strawberries in September before, and 
would like to ask if others have, and the 
cause. I have often made the assertion 
that I could ripen strawberries 12 months 
in the year. Commencing with last 
April, I have picked ripe strawberries 
every month until the present time. I 
picked some fine ones a few days ago. 
With berries in all stages, from buds just 
peeping out, to nearly full-grown ber¬ 
ries with plants in the dormant state 
which I can force into bloom in a short 
time, I hope to be able to accomplish 
the above assertion. 
The reason for C. W. C.’s plants bear¬ 
ing the second crop was, no doubt, ow- 
_ng to one or both causes—that his plants 
core but little in the spring or received 
a check from weeds or drought, thus 
remaining dormant a few weeks ; this 
would bring some varieties into fruit to 
some extent. All varieties are not in¬ 
fluenced alike ; the Crawford, for in¬ 
stance, is about the only one which I 
can fruit successfully throughout the 
summer months, while almost any vari¬ 
ety may be fruited under glass through¬ 
out the entire winter. I have a few 
plants of the Crawford which fruited 
all through the summer months of 1895 ; 
these plants I marked with stakes, and 
they are doing the same this season. 
Some plants have as high as three to 
five clusters of 10 to 15 berries to the 
cluster. They are in hill culture. I 
have them covered with glass, and hope 
to pick some fine ones later on. I am prop¬ 
agating from seeds and runners from 
these plants. If I can get a perpetual 
bearer, then I will have the market by 
the ear. 
Protecting Young Trees with Wire Cloth. 
C. W. S., Vermont —Mr. T. L Kinney, 
of Grand Isle County, Vt., wraps his 
young fruit trees with a strip of ordinary 
wire cloth, such as is used for window 
screens. The wire cloth takes the place 
of tarred paper, and should be tied 
loosely around the base of the tree so as 
to protect it 10 or 12 inches above the 
ground. The wire cloth keeps the mice 
and rabbits from girdling the trees in 
winter, and prevents the moth from de¬ 
positing her eggs from which the borer 
grubs hatch in the summer. The wire 
cloth remains around the tree all the 
year, but the twine which holds it in 
position should be loosened each year to 
allow the tree to expand without injury 
to the bark. This is a much better 
method than using tarred paper, as the 
bark of the tree is exposed to the sun¬ 
shine and rain the same as the rest of 
the stem above. This may be a well- 
known method, but I have never before 
seen it adopted. 
R. N.-Y.—This method is quite com¬ 
monly used for rabbits, poultry netting 
being used as well as the other. 
“ Keiffer Pears in England." 
Geo. A. Cochrane, Boston, Mass.— 
I should say that the chances are very 
poor for shipping Keiffer pears to 
England, more especially this year, as 
prices are good with us. They get a 
great many pears on the other side, 
from France and other nearby coun¬ 
tries ; still some do go from here. The 
best way to do would be to get up some 
boxes about the sizes that the Cali¬ 
fornians use in packing their fruit, and 
make the experiment. Nothing but the 
very finest selected fruit should be sent, 
and it should be wrapped in paper the 
same as the Californians do. If it is not 
a fine eating pear, there is no use send¬ 
ing it. 
“ Curing ’’ Hay. 
J. N., Sheldon, Vt. —I was pleased to 
read J. C. Senger’s article on dried grass 
or hay. and of his way of stating the 
necessity of thorough spreading. There 
is, evidently, a life principle in grass 
that should escape, just as it is neces¬ 
sary for the animal heat of slaughtered 
animals to escape before curing. It is 
well known that when animals are 
slaughtered in very cold weather and 
frozen hard outside, closing the pores, 
and preventing the escape of the animal 
heat, the meat will taint. So will grass 
mold in the mow if this life principle is 
not given a chance to escape. 
The English farmers say that they 
cannot make a prime article of hay in 
barns ; it must be stacked out-of-doors. 
Circumstances have given me a chance 
to try stacking hay, and more than a half 
dozen barns of different size and board¬ 
ing, and I have found my best hay in 
single-boarded barns with wide cracks 
between the boards. This is not an ex¬ 
perience of a single year, but of more 
than 50 years. I owned a farm that was 
formerly in two farms, and had two sets 
of buildings ; from the lower barns, we 
drew the hay as needed. As an example 
of how well hay will keep in a single- 
boarded barn, when cut in season and 
properly cured, in one instance it re¬ 
mained 12 years. A neighbor piled a 
lot of pumpkins on the barn floor. I was 
looking over them and could not find 
one from which the rats had not eaten 
the seeds. I told my oldest boy how 
the rats had served the pumpkins, and 
be would better draw the bay to the 
borne barn, as the rats and mice might 
have honeycombed the mow. But the 
mow was intact, just as bright and sweet 
as the day it was put in the barn. 
Seed Wheat Per Acre. 
J. M. Jamison, O. —For 12 years, I have 
grown crops of wheat ranging from 10 
bushels to 39 bushels per acre, leaving 
out this year, which was so near a com¬ 
plete failure that I did not harvest the 
crop. The 10-bushel-per-acre crop was 
grown on thin clay land without any 
manure or commercial fertilizer. Part 
of the land needed tile drainage badly. 
Crops ranging from 22 bushels to 39 
bushels per acre were grown on land 
that had been well tile drained, corn fol¬ 
lowing clover, and the wheat following 
corn. The clover sod was top-dressed 
with barnyard manure, 20 loads per acre, 
and in one or two instances, 150 pounds 
of commercial fertilizer per acre were 
used. But the 39 bushels per acre was 
grown after corn following clover. The 
two previous crops of wheat, in a regu¬ 
lar three-year rotation, were 25 and 26 
bushels per acre. 
Each year, before breaking the clover 
sod, it had been top-dressed with barn¬ 
yard manure, 20 loads per acre. This 
field has never had a pound of commer¬ 
cial fertilizer on it. It is what may be 
termed White-oak land. Part of it is 
black soil, and the whole of it is under¬ 
laid with stiff, red clay. Fifteen years 
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