1908 . 
80 S 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
CLOSE-PLANTED STRAWBERRIES. 
I send a photo of a portion of my 
strawberry field. I know how your lit¬ 
tle Kevitt system patch looked some 
weeks ago, and I am doing this to show 
you what I have. I am not making any 
claims whatever. My bed occupies nine- 
tenths of an acre, planted Spring of 
1908, equally in three varieties—Senator 
Dunlap, Sample and Stevens’ Late 
Champion; about 1,000 plants in 20 
varieties for trial purposes also; soil 
sandy loam, hungry for food. Last year 
I grew corn on the land. T drew on 
large yield, but we are making no claims. 
Wait until we pick and sell the berries 
and use the money for paying expenses. 
Mr. Kevitt makes large claims for the 
system, and we find that there 
are some unbelievers. We learned 
this .plan of growing berries from 
Mr. Kevitt, but we have no interest 
in it beside giving it a fair test. It is 
but fair to say that Kevitt does produce 
enormous crops of fruit, fie has sent 
us a plant of. Glen Mary, said to be 
eight years old, which is now growing. 
He has also sent us younger plants, to 
SOME KEVITT STRAWBERRIES 
40 tons of good manure this Spring and 
prepared the ground thoroughly; planted 
good strong plants very early; one 
month later applied one ton of vege¬ 
table fertilizer, broadcasting over bed. 
I have cultivated freely and cut all run¬ 
ners. Plants stand one foot by two feet, 
about 18,000 all told; estimate of cost to 
present time $200. The prospects are 
all that could be desired for a rich har¬ 
vest next Summer, but-? I have 
grown strawberries in quantities for 10 
years and have had excellent results 
with above system, which requires cour¬ 
age galore. I would not fiddle Xvith 
Marshall; I need the money. 
Long Island. george e. hart. 
R. N.-Y.—Mr. Hart came to Hope 
Farm early in August and saw our 
strawberries. The photograph was too 
dim for engraving, but showed plants 
larger than these in the picture, Fig. 417. 
FUNGUS DISEASE ON TWIG. Fig. 418. 
Mr. Hart sets the plants one foot apart 
in the row, with rows two feet. That 
is the way we shall plant next year, as 
it gives a chance for horse cultivation. 
The plants shown in the picture are in 
beds 15x18 inches apart, with two-foot 
alleys between the beds. It has been 
necessary to use wheel cultivator and 
hand hoe. The plants are large—many of 
them measuring IS inches across as they 
lie on the ground. They seem to have 
formed fruit buds. The soil was not 
very rich, and the plants have not been 
heavily fed, as we do not like to grow 
too much vine. There ought to be a 
AT HOPE FARM. Fig. 417. 
show us the large root development. 
Among other things, Mr. Kevitt claims 
to be able to sell plants in Spring with 
large balls of earth at the roots which, 
if planted at once, will give a fair crop 
the same season. This seems almost in¬ 
credible to us, and we shall try to set¬ 
tle it by ordering some of those plants 
and giving them the best care we know 
how, or handling them just as Kevitt 
suggests. Then we can see what comes 
of it. In late July of this year we dug 
yearling plants out of the old fruiting 
rows and planted them as we would 
potted plants. For a time they stood 
still, but are now larger than potted 
SURGERY FOIt TWIG DISEASE. Fig. 419. 
plants and have developed fruit buds. 
We wanted to see if such plants would 
not give us a fair crop of berries next 
year! 
Nurse (announcing the expected) : 
Professor, it’s a little boy.” Professor 
(absent-mindedly) : “Well, ask him 
what he wants.”—Boston Transcript. 
Little Willie: “Say, pa, what is 
meant by the law of demand and sup¬ 
ply?” Pa: “Take the coal dealer, for 
example, my son. About this time of 
the year he demands the money and we 
supply it.”—Chicago Daily News. 
A SCALE DISEASE IN FLORIDA. 
We have had a good deal to say about 
spraying to kill scale insects. The San 
Jose scale has spread pretty thoroughly over 
the country, and anyone who has seen the 
results of letting it alone will realize how 
important it is to keep it in check. In 
the North, spraying is about the only remedy 
for this insect. Every now and then some¬ 
one comes forward with a scheme for 
painting the bottom of the trunk with car¬ 
bolic acid, or poking some kind of 
liquid into the trunk of the tree. In 
these cases the theory is that the sub¬ 
stance works into the sap of the tree 
and follows it up to the twigs, and thus 
kills the insects. There is nothing to these 
claims, and spraying with lime and sulphur 
or the oils is the safeguard against this 
insect. In California much success has been 
found by scattering parasites which eat the 
eggs or living scales. Some of these para¬ 
sites imported from Australia have done 
very effective work on the Pacific Coast. 
They have been tried in the East without 
success, our Winters being too severe for 
them. In Florida another plan has proved 
successful, and that is the distribution 
through the trees of a fungus disease which 
attacks and kills the scale. A recent bulle¬ 
tin from the Florida Experiment Station 
gave an excellent and interesting account of 
some experiments in the use of this fungus. 
The picture shown at Fig. 418 shows a twig 
twice its natural size which is afilicted by 
tlws fungus disease. It does not appear 
to damage the tree at all, but spreads and 
grows among the insects, killing them off 
in large numbers. The picture at Fig. 419 
shows how the remedy is applied. A twig 
several inches long is apparently split in 
two and tied, bark down, to a twig on the 
living tree, selecting a place where scales 
abound. After several weeks, provided the 
weather is right, the fungus or disease germs 
spread from this twig and make their way 
along the limbs, and if the conditions are 
favorable spread over the tree, killing such 
scales as are attacked by it. In the most 
favorable weather it will take about four 
weeks for the disease to spread so that the 
eye can see it, but it seems from actual 
experiment that this simple method has 
proved very successful in the warm climate 
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of Florida. This disease of the scale 
appears to be native in that State. It has 
been tried in States farther to the North, 
but not with particular success. 
Another disease known as Red fungus at¬ 
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fungus are pinned upon the tree where the 
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fungus spreads throughout tne tree. A 
number of these leaves are scattered through 
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tree is an excellent place upon which to pin 
these leaves. Another way of spreading the 
fungus is to take a quantity of the leaves 
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this water is stirred up again, the liquid 
is strained through cheese cloth and sprayed 
over the trees. It is hard for us at the 
North to believe that such remedies are 
practical, and yet it would appear that they 
are extremely so in Florida, and apparently 
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where chinch bugs, grasshoppers and other 
destructive insects were found. When the 
conditions were favorable the disease spread 
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