Authority on Strawberries, Especially the Fall Bearing. 
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fall, after heavy frosts, it is time to cut off the dead grass and apply a heavy 
coat of rich barn manure. This fall treatment must be kept up from year to 
year. For best results, it is not advisable to cut asparagus from the bed until 
the second year after it is set out. Cutting tends to weaken the plants and 
they should be allowed to get strong and stocky. In cutting, be careful not to 
injure the young shoots that are just about to come through the ground. If 
the asparagus bed is annually fertilized and kept free from weeds and grasses, 
it will last a long time; we know of beds over fifty years old in this locality. 
You can save much time by harrowing the field late in the fall and very eariy 
in the spring before the shoots start. Salt spread evenly over the rows will 
kill the weeds and not injure the asparagus roots if applied in very early 
spring. 
Price of Asparagus Roots.—We can supply 2-year-old roots of Conover’s 
Colossal, Palmetto, Barr’s Mammoth, Columbian White, Donald’s Elmira and 
Giant Argenteil at 25c per dozen; $1.00 per 100; $5.00 per 1,000. 
Extra Heavy Roots.—We have about 20,000 roots 3 years old, very large 
and fine for immediate results and forcing, that we will sell at 35c per dozen; 
$1.25 per lOO*; $7.50 per 1,000. We can supply 1-year-old roots at $3.50 per 1,000. 
The Hastings Potato 
There is just Irish enough in me to appreciate a good potato and I have 
never seen anything equal to the Hastings. This variety originated about 
fourteen miles from us several years ago and now is more largely grown in 
that locality than all others combined. It is a very late potato and requires 
a full season to attain its greatest perfection in yield and flavor. For best 
results, it should be planted early, and growing through a long season as it 
does, it takes advantage of every bit of moisture and favorable weather that 
comes and is able to produce a big crop when varieties of shorter season will 
often fail. It is such a rank grower that it ought to be planted fully 3 feet 
apart each way and then will cover the ground with vines which are practically 
immune to bugs and blight. It produces potato balls every year. The tubers 
are white in color, roundish in shape, the popular market type, and are of very 
fine grain and of excellent flavor. Unlike most other late varieties of potatoes, 
it is good to eat, like early varieties, as soon as dug in the fall. The flesh is 
very solid and tubers of ordinary size are real heavy. It is rarely that you 
will find a hollow specimen. This variety has yielded 400 bushels to the acre 
on ordinary soil, when with the same care, on the same soil, right beside 
