1914. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1497 
Strawberries in November. 
Y picking the blossoms off the vines of 
a third of an acre strawberry patch 
in Northern Michigan this year, the 
grower put back the picking of the fruit 
clear out of season, and sold his berries 
at a price far in advance of the season 
prices. After this kind of fruit disap¬ 
peared from the market, the Michigan 
man picked nearly 800 quarts, and dur¬ 
ing the first three days of November he 
harvested and marketed a bushel of the 
most luscious berries ever brought to 
this market. They sold at 25 cents a 
quart basket wholesale. The patch is 
near Boyne City. This was accomplish¬ 
ed from plants set out in May, and the 
blossoms were picked off until the last 
part of July. The accompanying picture, 
Fig. 660, shows the harvest going on in 
November, and a watermelon and a ripe 
while until you see Colonel G. W. Bre¬ 
count,” one of the Commissioners of 
Agricultural Education said, and Secre¬ 
tary Sandies remarked, “lie owns all the 
land around him.” Colonel Brecount was 
seated on the upper deck of the big ferry¬ 
boat, talking to one of bis tenants. There 
were six of them on the trip and he paid 
their way, every cent, and it has paid 
him. Mr. Brecount was with the boys 
a year ago, and there was not a happier 
boy on the trip. The night of his return 
he invited the tenants and their wives 
to come in, this time after supper, for 
when the tenants come to supper in the 
Brecount home, the picnic and dishwash¬ 
ing last long in the evening. This occa¬ 
sion Mr. Brecount told first to the little 
folks the interesting things ho saw on 
his trip, and after the little boys and 
girls were tucked away on the big beds 
in the Brecount house, the Colonel told 
of tLe great things which would interest 
his men. “You have treated mv son and 
me pretty good,” Mr. Brecount said, "and 
in 1914 I am going to take you all 
along." Mr. Brecount brought with him 
A BATCH OF NOVEMBER STRAWBERRIES. Fig. 660 
pumpkin of this year are shown with 
crates of strawberries that have just been 
picked from the vines. W. F. Tindall 
was the grower. j. l. graff. 
Greenhouse Propagation of Blackberries. 
C AN blackberries be propagated at this 
time of year in a greenhouse from 
root cuttings, and if so what method 
would you use? B. T. n. 
Blackberries can be very readily pro¬ 
pagated from root cuttings in the green¬ 
house during the Winter months. The 
method of procedure is very simple; it 
consists in cutting the roots in pieces 
one and a half to two inches long, which 
may be forced into growth either in flats 
or the greenhouse bench. In either case, 
a depth of about two inches of good soil 
should be placed in the flat or bench, on 
which the root cuttings are placed in 
a thin layer and covered about one inch 
deep with good soil. If the root cuttings 
can be given mild bottom heat, the break¬ 
ing into growth will be somewhat has¬ 
tened; ordinarily it requires four to five 
weeks for top growth to appear. When 
the top growth is three or four inches 
high the plants should be potted off and 
carried along in mild heat until Spring, 
when they can be transferred to the open 
ground. Nurserymen frequently resort 
to greenhouse propagation of new and 
rare sorts, but very rarely propagate un¬ 
der glass the old varieties that sell at 
a low price. The root cuttings of these 
are made in the late Fall, packed in 
small boxes of sand and stored in a cool 
cellar until Spring, when they are scat¬ 
tered thinly in shallow trenches or fur¬ 
rows and covered about two inches deep. 
With good clean cultivation they will 
make good marketable plants by Fall, but 
not quite as strong as those started in 
the greenhouse during the Winter. K. 
THE OHIO “ CORN BOYS.” 
Their Visit to New York. 
Part II. 
A Traveled Farmer. —I approached 
a man whom I believed to be a neighbor 
back in Northeastern Ohio. He looked 
at me strangely but gave me his name, 
and 1 later learned much of interest 
about him. A farmer boy 45 years old 
is Charles Bates of Sandusky, Ohio, lie 
has worked out on the farm by mouth 
and day all his life, and he just went 
along with the boys, to be a boy again. 
This is not his only trip, I was informed, 
for Mr. Bates out of his earnings has 
traveled around the world. The trip 
round the earth cost him over a thousand 
dollars of his earnings, and “it was 
worth it,” he said. 
A Farmer And His Tenants. —“A 
day with the corn boys will not be worth 
more corn boys and girls from Miami 
County than any other county, 79 boys 
and "iris. Mr. Brecount not only finds 
time to manage his farms, but' he is 
father not to one boy, but to corn boys 
and girls all over Miami County. 
was a center of 
boys. Rose is a 
six feet in height, 
gave him a beau- 
his yield of 153 
Other Notables. —Arnett Rose, aged 
17, of Allen County, Ohio, and twice 
champion corn grower 
admiration among the 
tall sturdy chap, nearly 
and Lima, Ohio, people 
tifill gold medal for 
bushels and 47 pounds of shelled corn to 
the acre. Merle May, a boy of 14 years, 
ranked second, with yield of 143 26-56 
bushels an acre. Miss llazel Thompson 
of Port Y\ illiam was one of the highlv 
honored on the trip because of her lead¬ 
ership among Ohio girls in sewing, cook¬ 
ing. baking and preserving. The bovs 
from the northern part of the State took 
particular pride in advertising the suc¬ 
cess of Harold Hester, who lives on the 
Lake Shore near Cleveland, and who 
raised 92 bushels of Pride of the North. 
Farmers in this section said it was not 
a corn country, but Ilrrold has shown 
some of the older ones it can be. The 
the excursion are well 
Secretary A. P. San- 
the man who brought 
in the Buckeye State; 
prominent as a business 
men in charge of 
known in Ohio, 
dies is known as 
the rainbow down 
T. P. Riddle, 
man of northwestern Ohio, was the first 
to conceive of the trip. The trains were 
under the direction of Commissioners S. 
A. Ilarbourt, Cleveland. II. L. Goll. 
8 wanton. J. R. Clark, Columbus, Les- 
Lebanon, Mrs. J. E. Rus- 
aud Mr. IV. E. Breconrt, 
was after midnight' when 
the last boy filed through the gates of the 
great Pennsylvania station in New York 
all happy in the thought, “I am now 
bound for Ohio.” w j 
ter II. Ivins, 
sell. Sidney, 
Conover. It 
Renta! for Farm. 
W ILL you please advise me as to rent 
that should be paid on a farm of 
7.) acres? Eight good milch cows 
not over five years old are left on the 
place. _ Buildings are in good repair. 
The soil is a sandy gravel and is quite 
deep. The farm is well kept up and 
good crops have been harvested. The 
milk is to be sent to a cheese factory, 
two miles away. The place is three 
miles from railroad station. I have to 
Pay water rent and school tax which 
amounted to $29 this year. c. A. r 
Niagara Co., N. Y. 
This question was submitted to a num¬ 
ber of farmers in Western New York. 
They made various estimates regarding 
the proper rent. These estimates run 
from $250 to $300 per year, with a fair 
average of about $275. Farmers gener¬ 
ally have difficulty in figuring a cash 
rental, as most of the farms are rented 
apparently on shares as a general prac¬ 
tice. 
I thought you told me that this 
would be a paying investment,” grumbled 
the customer, as he handed over another 
assessment. “Well,” replied the pro¬ 
moter, you are paying, aren’t you?”— 
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