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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
May 5, 
FARMERS’ CLUR 
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EXTENDED STRAWBERRY SEASON. 
How many people there are who wish 
to have strawberries much longer than the 
common season of their own fruit! To 
be sure, one can buy strawberries for 
many months, but most of us would pre¬ 
fer to pick them fresh from our own gar¬ 
dens much longer than we now do. This 
can be accomplished by setting the earliest 
varieties on the south side of a fence or 
of a hill, where the sun warms the land 
early, therefore producing an early 
growth. Such land will produce fruit a 
week or 10 days earlier than other locali¬ 
ties. To extend the season at the other 
end set some of the latest varieties on the 
north side of a fence or on a northern 
slope. By so doing the season can be 
lengthened a week or 10 days at this end. 
Thus we may pick fruit from our own 
gardens three weeks longer than the usual 
time by thoughtfully locating the beds. If 
we wish to pick our own strawberries five 
or six months of the year, we may do so 
by setting out an ever-bearing variety 
called the Pan-American, which produces 
fruit continuously from June until the 
ground freezes. Most of the so-called 
ever-bearing strawberries produce but a 
few scattering berries, but the Pan-Ameri¬ 
can plants are a true, ever-bearing variety 
that will produce fruit just when you 
want it. If the blossoms are picked off 
until the middle of July and the succeed¬ 
ing ones then allowed to mature they will 
yield ripe fruit from the middle of August 
until the green berries freeze in Novem¬ 
ber. Should you wish to extend the fruit¬ 
ing season still further, set the plants in 
cold frames with glass over them, or in 
hotbeds with under heat, or in a green¬ 
house. You can regulate the fruiting of 
this ever-bearing variety by picking off the 
fruit stems to within 30 days of the time 
that you want the berries, for the plants 
are continuous and persistent bloomers. 
S. H. WARREN. 
Wood Soil for Manure. 
II. V. F„ Dutchess Co., N. Y .—I have a 
farm that is not as productive as I would 
like to have it, and I am short of manure. 
I have a wood lot that has a lot of black 
stuff, I suppose from dead leaves. Would 
you advise me to put it on the land? The 
woods are also full of ant heaps. Do you 
think the ants would interfere with crops? 
Ans. —You will be disappointed if you 
use that “black stuff” just as it comes 
from the woods. We have found it usu¬ 
ally sour, and not very available as plant 
food. We use it around trees with lime, 
but we would prefer to make a compost 
of it before spreading on the ground. If 
you could haul it in a pile and mix it 
with what manure you have, or let it rot 
thoroughly, it would help. 
Humus in a Garden Soil. 
A. R., TroyN. Y .—My garden is a dry 
loam, not stiff; size 75 x 200 feet. I cannot 
buy manure and have it drawn for less than 
$3 per load—half straw at that. I use about 
1,200 to 1,800 pounds of fertilizer each year, 
but feel that the soil needs something else to 
loosen it up. I never allow a weed to grow. 
Would it be best to sow Crimson clover 
among the vegetables in July or August and 
let the weeds grow with it, turning all under 
in the Spring, or is there something better 
for the purpose in a garden? Is the com¬ 
mercial sheep manure a substitute for the 
barnyard product? 
Ans. —Very likely the vegetable matter 
in this soil has been largely used up. Crim¬ 
son clover is not a sure crop in your lati¬ 
tude. To sow it among the vegetables in 
July might give a fair growth, but in a 
dry season it would be at the expense of 
other crops. It would take moisture from 
them. Work under all weeds before they 
go to seed. We would not plow under the 
vines of garden crops, as in this way in¬ 
sects or plant diseases may be bred. As 
soon as a piece of ground is cleared, sow 
Cow-horn turnips and rye. After Septem¬ 
ber 1 sow rye alone. Let the rye stand as 
long as possible in the Spring before 
plowing it under. If need be make two 
plowings in order to get as much growth 
on the rye as possible. 
How to Fight Maggots. 
T. H. 8., Dunbar, Pa. — Last Spring I lost, 
all my early cabbage and cauliflower 
by the little white grub at the root. Fibrous 
roots were completely stripped off, and plants 
withered and died. This was done after be¬ 
ing transplanted, and when starting to grow 
nicely. It is almost impossible to raise rad¬ 
ishes and turnips for the same reason. Is 
there any application or treatment of plants 
or soil, either in seed bed or after trans¬ 
planting that will check or prevent the mag¬ 
gots? Would they be less likely to attack 
the plants in ground that lias not been used 
for cabbages for a few years? 
Ans. —We presume you mean maggots. 
Lime or wood ashes have some effect in 
keeping off these pests. We have used 
sand well soaked with kerosene scattered 
along the row or around the plant, but 
the best thing seems to be the emulsion of 
carbolic acid and soap made as follows: 
One pound hard soap or one quart soft 
soap dissolved in one gallon boiling 
water; add one pint of crude carbolic 
acid, and emulsify by agitation. Use one 
part of emulsion mixed with 30 parts 
water. This has proved quite effective 
with us. but is not practical on large 
areas. It will certainly be better to plant 
on new soil. 
Insulating a Water Pipe. 
G. E. E. (No address.) —I wish to lead 
water from a spring to my barn, a distance 
of 1,200 feet. The spring is 30 feet higher 
than the buildings and stands 46 degrees F. 
Can the pipe be insulated in any way so that 
the water will arrive at the barn at a tem¬ 
perature not above 50 degrees? Which ma¬ 
terial would be best to put around the pipe, 
wood, crushed stone, gravel or cinders? Will 
use one-half inch lead pipe the greater part 
of the distance. 
Ans. —It will be practically very difficult 
and expensive so to insulate a half-inch 
pipe, carrying water 1,200 feet under a 
head of 30 feet, that its temperature shall 
not be raised more than four degrees 
above 46 during the Summer season. In 
the first place the theoretical discharge of 
a half-inch lead pipe 1,200 feet long, un¬ 
der a head of 30 feet, is less than eight- 
tenths of a gallon per minute, and the ve¬ 
locity of discharge is such that the water 
will be in the pipe 16 minutes. Even if 
the pipe were laid four feet below the 
surface the Summer temperature would 
reach 60 degrees F. as early as the middle 
of June, so that unusual insulation with 
a much higher velocity of flow through 
the pipe would be required to permit the 
water to discharge at a temperature of 
50 degrees F. The only insulation which 
could approximate this result would be 
that of suspension of the pipe in the cen¬ 
ter of wooden jacket four inches inside 
diameter. It might even then be neces¬ 
sary to have the pipe wrapped. If the 
velocity of discharge was increased by 
using so large a pipe as 1 J 4 inch in di¬ 
ameter the water would still be in the 
pipe about 10 minutes, so that if the pipe 
were laid in crushed stone, gravel or cin- 
C 
OW PEAS draw nitrogen from the 
air in large amounts, if sufficient 
Potash and phosphoric acid are supplied 
to the plant. 
The multitude of purposes served by the 
remarkable cow pea, are told in the 65- page 
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