1911. 
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THE: RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
FALL BEARING STRAWBERRIES. 
Tlioro is to be a “boom” in strawberry 
plants which give a crop in the Fall. Dur¬ 
ing the past few years a number of va¬ 
rieties have been developed which actuallv 
give fair crops at this season. Opinion is 
divided as to whether such varieties will 
have practical value or not. Some grow¬ 
ers regard them as mere novelties, while 
others think the berries will prove very 
profitable. Our advice is to try them 
moderately, observe their growth and de¬ 
cide whether or not it will nav to arrow 
them in large Quantities. No doubt there 
will be great attempts at faking in the 
sale of those plants. As is usually the 
case in selling “novelties” some nursery¬ 
men will rush witii all sorts of trash while 
the "boom” lasts. Be careful where vou 
buy. The picture below shows plants 
young man, in 1885, and on the last three 
trips I have tried to investigate agricultural 
conditions and possibilities. I )>•' ,e even 
contemplated disposing of my holdings 
here and buying in the East, preferably 
New York. But my farming experience has 
all been gained in the West, and conditions 
are very much different in the East. I 
believe its agriculture to lie more compli¬ 
cated ; 1 believe it takes better management, 
a higher agricultural education and greater 
natural ability to make a success of agricul¬ 
ture in the East than it does in the West. 
I have tried to make a comparison of condi¬ 
tions and possibilities between the two, help 
to decide where the chances for a man of 
ordinary abilities would be the best. But 
I find it difficult. These competitive tests 
would help. I believe in the contest, as you 
suggest, the East would easily win. Some- 
THE NEW PRODUCTIVE FALL-REARING STRAWBERRY. 
of a variety grown by Samuel Cooner. and 
Mr. Cooper makes the following statement 
about them : 
Cooper’s No. G, now named “Produc¬ 
tive,” is a new seedling of “Autumn” 
crossed with the Pan American. It is 
imperfect in blossom, so has to have a 
perfect blossom Fall-bearing plant set 
with it. The foliage is very dark green, 
plants very large, with long roots. About 
100 feet of row was set in the latter 
part of May, 1909; plants set 14 inches 
apart in the row. thicker than they 
should have been, 18 or 20 inches would 
be better. All fruit stems were removed. 
They bore a good crop of berries in 
August and September of 1909. In the j 
Spring of 1910 about 700 new plants j 
were removed and set elsewhere. The 1 
ground was smoothed around the old 
plants, then mulched with basswood j 
sawdust and allowed to fruit. The pic- i 
ture above was taken July 4, 1910, ! 
before the first picking, which yielded 
24 standard quarts well heaped. The 
berry is above medium in size, light red, 
bright and glossy. I think it is the most 
productive plant I ever saw. After the 
Spring crop was harvested the foliage 
was cut off, the mulch removed and the 
ground well cultivated. About Septem¬ 
ber 10 we commenced to pick the second 
crop, and they continued to bear until 
freezing weather. The cultivation was 
the same as is given the common va¬ 
rieties. I have a good many Fall-bear¬ 
ing varieties that make runners fairly 
well and can be treated the same as the 
common varieties, only remove the fruit 
stems the Spring of setting plants. I 
find these plants more productive for an 
early Summer crop, with these advan¬ 
tages: If the frost kills the first blossoms 
they will soon blossom again arid, bear 
fruit, and you get three crops in two 
years instead of one, as with the com¬ 
mon varieties. samuel cooper. 
New York. 
bow, our soil does not respond to tie 1 extra 
care .and fertilization, to the extent that 
it does in the East. It is naturally fertile 
and easily handled, but we are more or less 
subject to severe droughts and hot winds 
at critical periods, which very often entirely 
destroy a promising crop. However, we 
usually raise fair, if not large crops, and by 
putting in a large acreage, we usually do 
quite well. And here I believe is the diffi¬ 
culty in forming conclusions from a competi¬ 
tive test. 
In tlie East tlie cornfields are small, a 
few acres on each farm. Here it is easily 
possible for one man witn, say four good 
horses and improved implements, to grow 
40 or 50 acres of corn. Many do better 
than that, besides putting in anywhere from 
40 to 100 acres of Winter wheat and 10 to 
20 acres of oats, doing all the work them¬ 
selves, excepting during harvest and stack¬ 
ing. when one man is usually hired for a 
period of from two to four weeks. So you 
see it is not at all uncommon for one man 
to handle a quarter section (160 acres ) with 
very little help. Of course all do not farm 
that much. Many only farm 80 acres, a 
few more than 160. But the point I am 
trying to reach is this. It is the net re¬ 
sults that count; it is what you have left 
when you get through at the end of the 
year. Or putting it in another way, it is 
tlie producing capacity of a man that really 
counts in tlie end, so we must not lose 
sight of that fact in forming conclusions, 
especially men in the West, with little or 
no knowledge of eastern conditions, who 
are contemplating a move to the East. I 
should like to see another test, or a series 
of tests. It might be carried on for sev¬ 
eral years. That is, the net results or 
profits from small farms, we might say one- 
man farms East and West. I say small 
farms because I believe it would be more 
simple and fair and give a better average. 
I believe in this; the East would hold its 
own and might cause some surprises. For 
against our larger acreages and strictly 
grain and live stock farming, it would have 
the advantage of a greater diversity of 
crops, better markets, its orchard and wood 
lot products, its canning factories and many 
other advantages this part of the West 
lacks. I believe a test of this kind would 
prove interesting and instructive, not only 
to the participants, but to a great many 
others as well. Our land has advanced so 
rapidly in value in the last few years that 
it is getting harder all the time for those 
without farms to get one, and" not even 
easy to rent one, so that many are looking 
for other localities, where values have not 
reached such a high level and some of those 
old eastern farms look quite tempting at 
the prices, especially at long range. My 
candid opinion is that an average man could 
pay for an average farm in the East quicker 
than, he could one in the West, from their 
own resources. w. s. scott. 
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I am interested in your suggestion of a 
competitive test on corn raising between the 
East and the West, partly for the good 
that would he bound to result, and partly 
because I think the East is not getting 
its just difes; that its possibilities are not 
fully realized, not only by the people of 
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