1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
343 
STRAWBERRIES FOR SIX MONTHS. 
"/ Don't Believe It." 
I have been reading your paper for a 
number of years, and while there have 
been, sometimes, statements that I have 
doubted somewhat, still, on general prin¬ 
ciples I have taken the dose cum grano 
salis, and made mental reservations. But 
on page 207, I met a genuine facer; 
wherein the writer claims that he picked 
strawberries for three months, and in such 
quantity as to send to market. I have 
been familiar with the growth, care and 
fruiting of strawberry plants, for nearly 
30 years, and with more varieties than 
I can begin to recall, including the so- 
called everbearing sorts; and while I have 
known of a second growth which pro¬ 
duced a few quarts of fruit I have never 
heard of any such yield as your corre¬ 
spondent claims he had. And yet I live 
in a warmer part of the State than does 
he. Picking strawberries after a snow¬ 
storm is too strong a story to accept 
without a protest. Was this item sent 
as a bit of romance to exploit a certain 
variety of strawberry plants to keep com¬ 
pany with the much talked-of Seedless 
apple? Go to, good Rural; fill not thy 
columns with wind! G. h. t. 
Southold, N. Y. 
Comes Back With the Proof. 
I am sending you two affidavits which I 
think ought to satisfy your readers of the 
truth of the article I wrote you which 
has called forth criticism. You will see 
that while these shipments are billed as 
crates, those sent to the Broezel House 
run from 11 to 20 quarts. Those shipped 
to other parties were shipped in two 
sizes of crates holding 27 .and 36 pints 
each. These shipments were all fancy 
berries, as I ship no others, and a good 
many fancy berries were sold locally, 
one lot of five quarts for a wedding in 
town the seventeenth day of October. I 
also took some to Arcade, which is five 
miles from here. Many were sold to 
parties who came to town visiting and 
must have some to take home to show 
their friends. Taking the second quality 
apd all more sold locally than were 
shipped, as people seem to like straw¬ 
berries in season and out of season and 
all the time. I can send you more proof 
as to the sales locally, if you desire it. I 
can well understand why people are in¬ 
credulous about anything contrary to their 
own experience. That reminds me of 
an incident in my army life. When we 
sailed up the Tennessee River to Pitts¬ 
burg Landing, we halted a while at 
Savannah a few miles below and some 
southern Union men enlisted in our army. 
One of them with whom I conversed was 
quite inquisitive about northern farming 
in Illinois, and I told him how we raised 
wheat on the prairies; how we sowed 
with a drill, describing it, also about 
cutting it with a four-horse reaper, cutting 
12 to 15 acres per day; and that six men 
bound it in bundles. Then the stacking 
and the thrashing, where we used a 12 
horse-power and separator, thrashing out 
about 500 bushels per day, and that it 
came from the machine all cleaned ready 
for the market. He seemed to take it all 
in until the last, when he threw up his 
hands in disgust and said: “You don’t 
mean the chaff blowed out!” He left me 
and probably did not believe anything I 
had said. You see the chaff blown out 
was too much for him to swallow, and 
perhaps if that snowstorm had been left 
out of my article your correspondent on 
Long Island might not have been so 
badly shocked. samuel cooper. 
R. N.-Y.—Mr. Cooper sends two affi¬ 
davits to prove his assertion that he 
picked strawberries until October 24. 
Here is the first entire: 
This is to certify that Samuel Cooper, 
Delevan, N. Y., supplied the Hotel Broezel, 
Buffalo, N. Y., the quantities of strawberries 
on the dates mentioned and the same were 
served at the “Broezel”: 
Date. Amounts received. 
1906, August 7.10 quarts. 
1906, August 10.20 quarts. 
1906, August 14.16 quarts. 
1906, August 17.15 quarts. 
1906, August 22.14 quarts. 
1906, August 25.16 quarts. 
1906, August 28.11 quarts. 
1906, August 31.11 quarts. 
1906, September 4.15 quarts. 
1906, September 11.16 quarts. 
1906. September 14.20 quarts. 
1906, September 17.16 quarts. 
1906, September 21.20 quarts. 
1906. September 25.16 quarts. 
1906, September 29.20 quarts. 
1906, October 2.16 quarts. 
' 906, October 5.20 quarts. 
1906. October 25.18 quarts. 
Mr. Cooper has supplied the above hotel 
with strawberries in about the same quanti¬ 
ties during the Fall season of the years 
1903, 1904 and 1905. Some years has made 
shipments as late as October 30th. 
Signed E. Bert Ilenshaw. 
Mgr. Hotel Broezel, Buffalo, N. Y. 
Subscribed and sworn to before me 
this 21st day of March, 1907. 
Jacob Newman, 
Notary Public. 
The other statement is made by James 
O. Waldorff, agent of the Adams Ex¬ 
press Co., at Delevan. Mr. Waldorff 
swears that his records show that Mr. 
Cooper shipped 29 crates of strawberries 
at 29 different times, the first shipment 
being August 1, 1906, and the last October 
25. These berries were sent to Buffalo 
and Olean. There is also a statement 
signed by persons who have bought the 
berries retail. 
All Right! I Take It Back! 
We sent some of the facts to the 
Long Islander who raised the question, 
and he replied: 
I feel very much as I used when a 
small boy. I would sometimes differ with 
my mother or dispute some statement of 
hers, and she would say, “George! Don’t 
you contradict me! Don’t you think 
mother knows?” And she usually did. 
I suppose I’ll have to give it up now, 
anyway. But it would seem queer to go 
out snowballing and when scraping up 
some snow for ammunition stop and pick 
the strawberries out to eat. However, 
the world moves, and we must move with 
it or be run over. I accept the statement, 
and would like a strawberry short cake 
for my next Christmas dinner. Say! I 
drank some milk once that was more than 
a year old, and it was just as sweet as 
the day it was drawn from the cow. It 
wasn’t condensed nor had it anything in 
to preserve it. I had once six hens shut 
in a little pen 10 feet by 50, fed only 
corn and water and not let out only just 
a little while at night, and they laid 72 
eggs in 13 days. I also had a young 
turkey that laid 152 eggs in one litter (?) 
and she laid regularly five eggs each 
week. I cannot just at this moment recall 
any other unusual experience, but maybe 
I may. _ g. h. t. 
WANT TO KNOW. 
Stock for McIntosh Red. —I would like 
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professors of horticulture, etc., as to the 
strongest growing, hardiest and most suit¬ 
able stock to top-work the McIntosh Red 
upon. State the respective merits of the 
following stocks for this purpose : Transcend- 
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Haas, Northwestern Greening, and also how 
long should the stocks set for this purpose 
remain growing before being top-grafted? 
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Cutaway or Disk Harrow. —In using 
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pea vines, etc., the stuff will induce incess¬ 
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time. Where the land is fairly clean or the 
trash is brittle I have always preferred the 
Cutaway to the disk, as in stony land it will 
go in a little deeper. s. 
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