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THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
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Strawberries on Barrels. 
In an account of a local fair I find the 
following: “Prominent among these dis¬ 
plays is that of the ever-bearing straw¬ 
berry by Mr. Creep of High street. This 
display consists of a huge barrel bored full 
of holes, and growing out from each is an 
ever-bearing strawberry plant loaded down 
with ripe fruit.” Is not this a fake? 
s. p. 
No—we do not think so. There are 
strawberries which bear fruit during the 
late Summer and Fall. They cannot be 
called “ever-bearing,” yet they do give fruit 
out of what Is considered the regular 
strawberry season. The plan of fruiting 
berries on a barrel is not new. A few 
years ago we gave a picture of such a 
barrel. Holes are bored through the staves 
and the barrel is -filled with rich soil, 
packed in hard. The plants are set through 
the holes into the soil. They will grow 
if some plan can be devised for keeping 
the soil inside the barrel moist. This we 
found the hardest part of the process. The 
plan is a novelty but not practical. 
Overgrown Raspberries. 
In purchasing this small country place 
we find on the edge of the field between 
the apple trees and the stone wall wild 
raspberries in abundance. Desiring to 
make every portion of the place not simply 
to yield, but produce its best, we penned 
these and dressed them after the bearing 
season with liquid dressing from the house, 
finishing out the patch with hen dressing. 
The result was luxuriant foliage and a 
very scant yield of larger and juicy berries. 
What treatment does that patch need to 
bring about the desired result? a. s. 
Greene, Me. 
This clearly seems to be a case of un¬ 
balanced ration. Hen manure is very 
strong in ammonia but deficient in phos¬ 
phoric acid and potash. In fruit culture 
emphasis is to be laid on potash. Am¬ 
monia is needed to stimulate growth in the 
early part of the season, but is not desir¬ 
able in Summer or Autumn. Phosphoric 
acid is needed, but not as the principal 
working factor of the fertilizer. Ammonia, 
phosphoric acid and potash are all needed, 
but must be proportioned in the right quan¬ 
tities to give good results. If A. S. will 
apply a good commercial fertilizer next 
Spring, containing about eight per cent 
available phosphoric acid, nitrogen, two to 
three per cent, and potash, 10 per cent, at 
the rate of 800 to 1,000 pounds per acre, I 
think he will get the desired results, k. 
Troubles of Grapes. 
The other day a man came into my of¬ 
fice and said, “Maybe you can tell me 
what is the matter with my grapes. The 
vines are loaded with fruit, but they won’t 
get ripe.” It took only a short time to 
discover that his vines had lost most of 
their foliage from insect and fungous in¬ 
juries, thus leaving the vines helpless to 
mature a large set of fruit. Some years' 
ago I saw a very striking case in which 
the foliage had dropped by the middle of 
Summer and the fruit remained hard and 
green until caught by frost. So much com¬ 
plaint of damage of this kind has come to 
my attention this season that it affords a 
striking contrast to those vineyards which 
have seen careful cultivation and spraying. 
Some of the insects responsible for the 
loss of foliage are the grape leaf-folder 
and the leaf-hopper. The grape flea-beetle 
feeds voraciously on the upper surface of 
the leaf, but is also responsible occasionally 
for the entire loss of the crop from its per¬ 
nicious habit of cutting off the clusters of 
flower buds. The downy and the powdery 
mildew and the anthracnose are efficient 
allies of the insects in effecting the serious 
loss of foliage. Spraying the vines and 
trellises duying the Winter or at least be¬ 
fore the buds start with a solution of 
bluestone, one pound to 25 gallons of 
water, is an excellent precautionary meas¬ 
ure. Just before blooming time spray with 
Bordeaux mixture, adding two pounds of 
arsenate of lead to 50 gallons of the solu¬ 
tion. Spray again in about 10 days. Later 
sprayings are often necessary, although 
there is some objection to spraying the 
fruit near the ripening season. Some suc- 
cessful growers spray every two weeks 
until the grapes are picked, but experience 
and good judgment must determine the 
number of sprayings, as this will vary with 
the different sections and with different 
seasons. At all events the foliage must be 
kept in a healthy condition if the best 
quality of fruit is expected. 
Maryland Station. w. it. ballard. 
Fruit Growing in Idaho. 
During a recent trip from Payette to New 
Plymouth, in company witli Mr. E. C. S. 
Brainard, a fine opportunity was afforded 
to study the orchards of the Payette-Fruit- 
land district. On the route we passed the 
40-acre black raspberry plantation of Mr. 
M. B. Sherman. This grower has developed 
machinery with which are cut the canes 
loaded with ripening fruit. The fruit then 
dries on the canes, which are pitched on 
racks, hauled in and thrashed. The dried 
product sells for $250 to $300 per acre. 
Mr. Sherman has a similar ranch near 
Twin Falls, Idaho, where the fruit ripens 
about three weeks later. This enables him 
to ship the needed machinery to Twin 
Falls after harvesting his crop at Payette. 
Tlie apple orchards along the way are 
very heavily laden. The packing of Jona¬ 
than apples opened September 17 at the 
plant of Sargent & Burnett, near Fruitland. 
Tlie products of this orchard will be mostly 
marketed in Germany this season, at a 
price that is expected to return $1,000 per 
acre. The first and second grades are 
wrapped in soft paper on the center of 
which, printed in red ink, the firm name 
appears, “Sargent & Burnett, Red Apple 
Ranch, Fruitland, Ida.” Each apple is 
placed in such manner that the firm name 
shows uppermost when the box is opened. 
Such apples as are not suitable for first 
and second grades and are of fair size, 
are sold to the evaporator nearby for $0 
per ton. Small apples go to their own 
vinegar factory, in which they ultimately 
return 16 to 20 cents per box. 
At the B. F. Tussing orchard we found 
them getting up an exhibit for the Payette 
fair. Two years ago an average of 1,209 
boxes of apples to the acre was packed in 
this orchard. This crop was sold for 
$1,469 per acre, with net returns over 
all expense of growing and packing of al¬ 
most $1,000 per acre. In 1911 the net 
profit was over $500 per acre. This sea¬ 
son it is estimated that the crop is equal 
in quantity to that of 1910, but having 
been contracted at $1.10 per box for first 
and second grades in all varieties, it will 
not net quite as much per acre as the 1910 
crop. Up to September 17, 250 cars of 
fruit had been shipped from Payette this 
season. When the Winter apples are 
finally marketed, a goodly sum of money 
will have been placed in circulation. 
Idaho. E. F. STEPHENS. 
NOTES AND COMMENTS. 
The Game Laws. —So far as these pro¬ 
tect the insectivorous birds and the 
songsters of Spring they are very good and 
desirable. But as a rule they are framed 
more in the interest of the idle fellows 
with gun and dog than for the land own¬ 
ers. Here in Maryland we have a close 
season for rabbits, a wholly needless law 
which tends to the increase of a pest. 
During this Summer the rabbits, young 
and old, have vied with the neighbors’ 
chickens in ravaging my garden. I believe 
that where anyone is arrested for shooting 
trespassing animals on his farm an appeal 
to the supreme court of the State would 
sustain the common law doctrine that a 
man has a right to protect his premises 
and crops from trespass, and if some one 
had the courage to test the laws protect¬ 
ing predatory animals he would be sus¬ 
tained by the appellate courts. If I catch 
a rabbit feasting on one of my cantaloupes 
or cabbages I have a natural right to shoot 
the varmint. If I find them girdling my 
fruit trees in Winter I have a perfect right 
to make it unhealthy for them there. And 
yet here in Maryland it is unlawful to 
shoot a rabbit except between the 15th of 
November and the 1st of January. And 
yet rabbits are more plentiful in North 
Carolina, where they have no closed sea¬ 
son for the rascals, than in Maryland, and 
they are too plentiful in both States. I 
would be glad to have a close season for¬ 
ever for Bol> White and all the birds ex¬ 
cept the English sparrow. But every land 
owner should have the right to shoot any 
rabbit or deer that is damaging his crops. 
Root Cuttings of Blackberries.— 
There is no doubt that plants of black¬ 
berries and red raspberries grown from 
root cuttings are superior to suckers that 
are naturally produced. But the roots 
must, of course, be from the genuine stock. 
It would seem to me that the trouble that 
Mr. Hutchins writes about was due to 
plants from cuttings that were not true to 
name. A plant grown from root cuttings is 
always better furnished with roots than the 
suckers are, and there is no possible rea¬ 
son why the plants should not continue to 
reproduce the same variety from root cut¬ 
ting as well as from natural sprouts from 
the same roots. I have grown a great 
many of these plants from root cuttings 
and never knew one to vary from the stock 
from which it came, and never knew one 
that did not make finer plant than a sucker 
of the same age. Root cuttings from in¬ 
ferior varieties cannot, of course, bo ex¬ 
pected to produce another sort. 
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