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THIS RURAL NEW-YORKER 
213 
COMBINING STRAWBERRIES WITH 
VEGETABLES. 
HE question is often asked as to 
whether small fruits pay when 
grown in connection with vegetables. Our 
experience in growing small fruits is 
limited to strawberries. We find, how¬ 
ever, that strawberries grown in connec¬ 
tion with vegetables are quite profitable, 
and fit in nicely with our system of 
trucking. 
My father commenced growing berries 
about 15 years ago, and during that 
time we have grown the Glen Mary, 
Brandywine, Senator Dunlap, Bubach, 
Mitchel’s Early, Nick Ohmer, Uncle Jim, 
Gandy and many other varieties but 
none of the standard well-tried varieties 
have equalled the Gandy as a money¬ 
maker. We have several acres of heavy 
sandy loam, much of it rather low, that 
grows the Gandy to perfection. As this 
is the best shipping berry it is grown 
in preference to any other variety, for 
although some others give us splendid 
crops of better-flavored fruits they go 
down quickly when shipped to distant 
markets. Other truckers throughout this 
section grow the Gandy as their main- 
crop berry, and the acreage is sufficiently 
large to induce outside buyers to come 
in during the shipping season and pay 
the highest cash price for berries that 
will ship. Most of the crop goes to 
Boston. For the home market, special 
trade, or for use on the table we have 
grown no June-fruiting berry that will 
equal the Uncle Jim. When well grown 
this produces immense crops of large 
berries that are hard to equal in flavor. 
But as stated before, the good shippers 
bring the most money, and the bulk of 
our plantings, about 10 acres, are 
Gandy. Uncle Jim, Nick Ohmer and 
other berries, including the Superb, ever- 
bearers, planted in small plots for test¬ 
ing purposes make up another acre. 
mer a cheap building gives them all the 
shelter they desire. Since having Italians 
to gather much of the produce, together 
with doing considerable of the less par¬ 
ticular hand work, we find the other work 
goes along much more smoothly; and 
what is better, we have accomplished 
more work outside without at the same 
time increasing the work of the good 
housewife by boarding more help. 
Pruning Quinces; Alfalfa With Oats. 
RE standard quinces pruned at the 
same time as apples, or should they be 
left alone? 2. Is it likely that Al¬ 
falfa will catch if drilled with oats, or 
should it be sown same as Hungarian 
(after the oats have been drilled)? 
Hampton, N. Y. j. c. 
1. It is well to thin out some of the 
interior growth on quinces in Winter or 
Spring, according to one’s convenience 
just as with apples. Some heading back 
can be done if a very thrifty growth has 
been made, but one should be very careful 
not to head back too severely, because, un¬ 
like apples, we find the quince blooms 
from the ends of the branches, and head¬ 
ing back thins the fruit. 
2. In South Jersey, the best practice is 
to sow Alfalfa about August 20 in a thor¬ 
oughly prepared seed bed. Spring seed¬ 
ing does not do well on our light sandy 
soil. In your section of New York con¬ 
ditions are altogether different, and your 
question must be answered by those fam¬ 
iliar with them. trucker, jr. 
When you write advertisers mention Thh 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
FANCY CLOVER 
Medium, Mammoth, Alsike, Alfalfa. 
TI ’ OTflY. All kinds l'ure Field Seeds. We buy 
direct of the funner. Quality high. Prices low. Can 
save you money. Write for Prek Samples and Prices 
F. J. WOOD & SONS, LONDON. O. 
All berries are grown on the matted 
row system. Unless previously enriched 
the ground intended for berries is plowed 
in the Fall and given a coat of six to 10 
tons of manure to the acre. In the 
Spring this is cut in with a disk harrow, 
and leveled with the Acme. Plants are 
set in rows of 4*4 feet apart and 18 
inches in the row. Planting is done 
in late March or early in April. 
Cultivation is thorough, and continues 
through the Summer, so as to have a 
clean bed to go into Winter. We aim to 
have the plants grow rather thinly in 
the row; if too close the fruits will 
neither be as large nor as well ripened 
as if more room was allowed. However, 
this is not easily controlled when grow¬ 
ing in matted rows, and is usually largely 
determined by climatic and soil condi¬ 
tions during the growing season. After 
ground is frozen a light dressing of horse 
manure is spread over the bods as a 
mulch. Beds are usually allowed to pro¬ 
duce three crops of fruit; we find the 
Gandy gives the heaviest yield the sec¬ 
ond season. With other varieties this 
is not usually the case. 
Aside from financial returns, we find 
berries grown in connection with vege¬ 
tables a great source of satisfaction, in 
that they are instrumental in helping to 
solve our labor problem. Now that may 
sound strange, for everyone knows that 
berry-growing is not easy, and in itself 
requires much labor, especially during 
the picking season, but it has neverthe¬ 
less helped to solve our own problem. 
Before growing berries to any extent we 
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Grown In Maine under supervision of Plant Pathologist. 
Parent Plants yielded 6 to 10 large tubers each. Spraying 
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to type removed from fields. Constant inspection from 
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Guaranteed 100% pure and practically free from dis¬ 
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Cnnd Prrfatftne - The new Russett, a 
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farmers' prices. Send at once for sample and 
prices. MANSION FARMS, Foxburg, Pa. 
SWF FT 8KKI) - White and large biennial 
* yellow. Prices and circular on 
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Clover, Timothy, AIsilte, Alfalfa and all kinds of 
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TREES 
Fruit-trees that thrive and “make 
good" are the kind that have made 
this nursery famous all over the world 
and that are making us new friends as every bountiful 
crop is gathered. Our shrub- _ 
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GEORGE A. SWEET NURSERY CO. 
20 Maple Street Dansville, N. Y. 
could not secure or give regular employ¬ 
ment to any outside foreign day help. 
The help we had was practically all hired 
by the month, and boarded at the farm 
home. This help not only planted, culti¬ 
vated and tended crops, but also gathered, 
packed and marketed the same. Now, 
when strawberries are ripe, we get 15 
or 20 Italians from Philadelphia to do 
the picking. They pick by the quart, and 
do it better and with far loss trouble 
than the average home picker. After ber¬ 
ries are gone a portion of the gang goes 
back to Philadelphia, but the rest re¬ 
main to pick tomatoes, peas, beans, etc.; 
clean up old strawberry beds, the new 
beds, help in the sweet potatoes, pull 
weeds, in fact do anything not requiring 
work with horses. If needed they will 
stay until sweet potatoes are dug in the 
Fall. They work either by piece work 
or by the day. If by the day $1.25 to 
£1.50 is paid. They board themselves, 
end as they are here only in the Sum- 
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Biff Supply of Apple and Peach 
^Tree8. JPiuui, pear, quince, 
cherry, grape vines, ornamen¬ 
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Highest grade and true to 
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Free oatalogue gives valu¬ 
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/rec. 1 
NEW STRAWBERRIES^^ 
Reliable, interesting and instructive— All about -he New 
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C. N. FLANS BURGH & SON, JACKSON, MICH. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS"^ £• Tg b a e “ ffi 
catalog. Slaymaker & Son, Wyoming. Delaware 
R IGHT PRICES ON RIGHT QUALITY—Strawberry, Raapborry, Black 
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That’s what one man made with strawberries in his home garden 
during spare time. Strawberry growing is a pleasant and profitable 
occupation —every home should have a strawberry bed. 
But for the best yields and certain profits, you must set out plants that are hardy, 
prolific and bear fruit that are true-.o-name. They should reflect evidence of years 
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Are you in need of Fruit, Shade or Or¬ 
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Jumbo. Biggest and best 
Raspberry. 
DlVjVjLtJ i VanFleetHybrids. Won¬ 
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Cace. Best and most 
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Everybody’s: Best Currant for everybody. 
Carrie Gooseberry: Succeeds everywhere. 
MY CATALOG No. 1, sn illustrated book of 64 
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all “the good old varieties" of Small Fruits as well. It 
gives also full instructions for planting with cultural 
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For 36 gears a specialist In Berry Culture. 
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fi... 
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“Strawberry Plants That Grow” 
All the best Juno and Fall-bearing varieties. Also 
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for Northern Planting 
Budded Pecan Trees, Thin-Shell Hardy sorts. 
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450,000 TREES 
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"SUPERB" 
Everbearing 
Strawberries 
a success. Circular Free. 
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We have selected eight varieties out of a hundred 
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1 Seckel Pear 
1 Bartlett Pear 
