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I Hen Manure for Radishes; Strawberries 
Fail to Bear 
1. We have some sandy loam soil 
which we wish to put in radishes for real 
early Spring market. Every day counts 
in big returns, so we want them to grow 
as rapidly as possible. We have some 
chicken manure and plenty of rotten cow 
manure. We want to know in what pro¬ 
portion to mix this with other fertilizers, 
also what other fertilizers are best. 2. 
Our strawberries are on heavy sandy 
loam soil, well fertilized with stable ma¬ 
nure. This same soil will raise other 
vegetable crops, but our strawberries have 
done practically nothing for several years. 
Our everbearing berries last Fall were in 
good condition and formed a well-matted 
row. but bore practically none. The 
plants don’t exaetlv look healthy, and 
seem to have some disease. Some of them 
seem to have leaf spot. Would that pre¬ 
vent the whole patch from bearing as it 
•should ? C. B. 
1. I would not use either the chicken or 
cow manure for early radishes, but a 
complete fertilizer running about 5-S-6. 
The manure will have a tendency to make 
a larger top, and will not make the bull) 
as quickly as a ‘good fertilizer. Besides, 
the manure is more apt to make the rad¬ 
ishes more wormy than if fertilizer is 
used. If the soil is poor and C. R. 
wishes to apply the manure, spread it 
broadcast and plow it in. then use the fer¬ 
tilizer and harrow it in. 
2. In regard to strawberries not bear¬ 
ing a profitable crop, it may be due to a 
number of causes. Most likely the soil 
is not adapted for that purpose; while it 
may grow other vegetables, it is not a 
sure sign that strawberries will do well 
on the same soil. I have found the same 
trouble on heavy, wet soil. I believe it 
will help these plants if a good applica¬ 
tion of acid phosphate is given early in 
the Spring. Sow a liberal supply broad¬ 
cast over the bed (say one-half ton to 
the acre) early in the Spring before the 
plants start, when plants are dry. In re¬ 
gard to the unhealthy appearance of the 
bed, if it is blight, spray with Bordeaux. 
If the red spider is the trouble, spray 
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Spinach Yellows; Worms in Radishes 
I am a truck farmer; I raise early 
cabbage and early sweet corn and all the 
leading vegetables. Where I raise early 
cabbage, as soon as cabbage is all gone, 
I prepare the patch immediately by har¬ 
rowing and sowing not less than 1500 lbs. 
of good fertilizer per acre. I plant beans 
for my late market, and sow rows of 
spinach. The beaus turned out well and 
some of the spinach too, but right in the 
middle of the patch all the spinach turned 
vellow. What is the matter? 2. 1 
iflanted sweet corn early, and as soon as 
I had cut all the ears I cut the corn 
stalks and remove them from the patch ; 
prepared the patch immediately, harrow¬ 
ing and sowed again 1500 lbs. fertilizer 
per acre, and sowed White Chinese 
radishes in rows. As soon as the radishes 
were large enough to handle we thinned ; 
raised nice radishes as far as the size is 
concerned, but they were pretty nearly 
all wormy. Could you suggest anything 
that I could put on the ground so the 
radishes would not get wormy ? a. a. a. 
1. The spinach trouble is one of the 
most difficult problems I have ever tried 
to solve. As only part of A. A. A. s 
spinach went bad, it looks to me as if it 
was spinach yellows' or mosaic. It is 
very infectious and I have known of a 
whole acre going bad so it was not fit to 
cut, three days after the disease appeared. 
There is no known remedy for this dis¬ 
ease as far as I know. The Spring crop 
is very seldom troubled with any blight 
or disease. I have cause to think that 
atmospheric conditions are very often 
the cause; for instance, last Fall my 
early sowing of August 1 was all that 
could be desired; with no appearance of 
blight or yellows. The second sowing, 
August 15,* showed the yellows in spots, 
and the third sowing, August 25. was an 
entire failure. This soil was identically 
the same as the plots were joining each 
other, and fertilized the same. I had the 
very same experience in 1920. All of the 
seed was taken out of the same bag. As 
reported in The R. N.-Y. of December 22. 
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2. The radish worm is almost as had a 
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frames, is free from this pest, but no mat¬ 
ter how early one sows in open ground 
they are bound to make trouble. I find 
that by not using rotted manure and 
using a very heavy application of fertil¬ 
izer. 5-8-8. the radishes are not near as 
wormy. I have tried spraying with cor¬ 
rosive sublimate, but it impairs the 
foliage and does not do much good. 
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