1909. 
THE: RURAL NEW-YORKER 
847 
LONG-LIVED STRAWBERRY PLANTS. 
In a recent R. N.-Y. mention is made 
of a case where a man sold a piece 
of land in which was a crop of straw¬ 
berries. The seller claimed the right 
to pick the crop because it was personal 
property. He finally got $100 damages 
because the buyer denied him the right 
to pick the fruit. On appeal the judge 
upheld this decision on the ground that 
strawberries are not real estate, since 
they are not permanently rooted in the 
ground, fruit trees being fixed and per¬ 
manent and intended to be so go with 
the land. I wish to correct the above 
statement; a strawberry plant is a 
cold-blooded plant and may be retained 
growing in the same soil year after 
year without renewing. I send you by 
mail one strawberry plant over four 
years old which proves conclusively that 
a strawberry plant is fixed same as 
fruit trees. t. c. kevitt. 
R. N.-Y.—There is no doubt that a 
strawberry plant can be kept fruiting 
year after year. We have one that will 
give its ninth crop next year. Most 
growers do not believe it pays to keep 
up this fruiting. Many plow after pick¬ 
ing one crop, while others take two. 
In the strawberry case mentioned we 
understand the judge based his decision 
chicks did well, but the old hens hurt 
the young crop by picking at the small 
plants and scratching. After the vines 
have reached a good size the hens do 
not hurt them much, though with us 
they laid some of the potatoes bare. We 
should use^a cultivator even if the hens 
were there. _ 
Spraying Dwarf Apples. 
V. L. L., Kingston, R. /.—How does 
George T. Powell spray his dwarf apple 
trees? I understand that they are 10 feet 
apart each way. If the side branches ex¬ 
tend out to any extent it would not be 
possible to drive a team through. 
Ans. —For the dwarf trees planted 
10 feet apart we have a narrow two- 
wheel truck, but 30 inches wide, drawn 
by one horse, upon which a barrel is 
placed for spraying. We use this some¬ 
times for spraying currants that are 
planted five feet apart. As the trees are 
low a barrel pump does the work well, 
and with this low narrow truck, the 
low trees are very rapidly sprayed. 
Where the dwarfs are interplanted with 
standards, the large power sprayer 
sprays the trees in about 10 seconds. 
GEO. T. POWELL. 
Potted Strawberry Plants. 
The picture, at Fig. 520, shows my 
late set strawberry patch. When I read 
TWO MONTHS’ GROWTH OF STRAWBERRIES. Fig. 520. 
on the usual custom. The man who 
brought the suit would have plowed 
after picking one crop. 
HENS AND POTATOES. 
I was especially interested in the ar¬ 
ticle on page 842, entitled “Utilizing a 
Hcnyard.” The best crop I have found 
for a hcnyard is the potato crop. I once 
grew the finest crop of potatoes in my 
henyard that I ever grew, and at the 
least expense. All I did was to plant 
the potato seed in the Spring and dig 
the crop in the Fall. The hens did the 
weeding, harrowing, fertilizing and 
keeping the bugs off the vines. The 
potatoes were the finest I ever grew, 
not a scab or blemish of any kind, as 
the ground was free from a worm or 
larva of any description. I had one- 
half acre and dug 100 bushels of pota¬ 
toes. It took 200 hens to care for the 
half acre. I found by experience that a 
lesser number of hens will not keep the 
weeds down nor the bugs off. A larger 
number of hens will make the land too 
rich. All the droppings of the year go 
on to the crop. By this plan there is no 
moving of fences nor fouling of the 
land. How do I prevent the fowls from 
scratching out the new potatoes? I place 
on top of the ground all the potatoes 
the fowls can eat and I find they will 
not dig out any of the potatoes. They 
are like bipeds without feathers in that 
they don’t dig when they can have what 
they want without exertion. I scatter 
the grain well over the yard and right 
over the hills of potatoes, and the hens 
keep the whole surface scratched over, 
and not a weed appears. I carry some 
green food at the evening feeding. I 
grew a crop adjoining this henyard and 
secured a yield of one-half as many 
bushels to the acre. f. n. c. 
R- N.-Y.—We have tried this. Young 
your report of the Kevitt strawberry 
patch I went to work right away. I 
potted up plants first of August. Plants 
were put in field August 15, 18 inches 
apart each way, I kept all runners off. 
The picture was taken middle of Sep¬ 
tember. They are so large I cannot get 
my Planet Jr. plow through them now. 
To the right are a few plants that were 
set September i; if they had been a 
foot apart I could not have plowed them 
at all. If I can raise more berries on 
a quarter of an acre than on two acres, 
I am going to do it. j. w. m. 
New Comerstown, O. 
R. N.-Y.—Do not expect too much 
from the first yield of these plants next 
year. They may make one good spray of 
fruit, but will not give a full crop until 
the next season. You can keep them 
going several years. 
Wood Ashes and Hen Manure for Berries. 
F. M. S., Sardinia, N. Y .—What is the 
value of wood ashes and of the droppings 
from the henhouses for fertilizers on 
raspberries or strawberries? I use them 
separately, but would it be better to use 
them on other crops and use something 
else on the berries? Are they specially 
valuable on potatoes? 
Ans. —The hen manure is valuable, 
chiefly for the nitrogen it contains. Un¬ 
leached wood ashes contains lime, pot¬ 
ash and a little phosphoric acid. Never 
mix them before use, as the lime will set 
free ammonia in the manure. Our plan 
would be to crush the manure fine and 
scatter it along the rows. Then broad¬ 
cast the ashes and cultivjate all in. 
This combination must be excellent for 
bush fruits of all sorts, cabbage or 
garden crops. We would not use the 
ashes on strawberries. This crop pre¬ 
fers an acid soil, and the lime in the 
ashes may make it too alkaline. Do 
not use ashes on potatoes. The lime in¬ 
creases scab. Ordinary wood ashes are 
worth about $9 a ton—good hen ma¬ 
nure $10. 
The doctor says you have 
got to take Cod Liver Oil— 
if so, why not take it in the 
easiest and best form —why 
not take 
Scott’s Emulsion 
That is what the doctor 
means. He would not force 
you to take the crude oil 
when he knows the Emulsion 
is better—more easily digested 
and absorbed into the system 
—and will not upset the 
stomach like the plain oil. 
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