r«se«, peonlec, vines and shrutos for your home grounds. 
If 
brought or sent in his four quart handy of 
berries, he placed a number on it. In this 
way we were able to tell all about who picked 
that handy of berries. As a result, the stand¬ 
ard of picking was raised. We found no 
leares put In Just to fill up, there were less 
green and rotten berries, fewer hulled ber¬ 
ries. etc, etc. 
I have gone somewhat into details. I be¬ 
lieve in details. There once was a time when 
there were any quantity working people 
whom we could hire who could “Take a Mes¬ 
sage to Garcia.*' Now what help we get have 
to be shown. 
What is going to be done for the labor sit¬ 
uation on our fruit farms and nurseries for 
the coming year and during the years that 
the war lasts? Are the fruit farms and al¬ 
lied business interests that have taken years, 
In some cases, a lifetime to be built up, going 
to be allowed to go to decay for the lack of 
help? What Is the obectlon to Importing 
the necessary Chinese or Japanese, and send¬ 
ing them back after the war? They are do¬ 
ing it in Europe, why can't we? 
I read an editorial In a leading Syracuse 
paper last summer which gave a partial list 
of things which might be tabooed. Among 
these, strawberries were mentioned. Some 
great professor was quoted as saying that the 
principal constituent of strawberries was 
rheumatism. I will admit that there are a 
few people who cannot and should not eat 
strawberries. God pity them. To most of 
us, strawberries are a sort of blessing. Like 
asparagus, rhubarb, green corn, tomatoes, 
peaches, apples, they occupy a necessary 
place in our diet. Without them, we are mot 
as efficient or as good men and women. 
They help our digestion, they cool our blood 
and our brain, they, along with other fruits, 
cause us to live better lives. To those peo¬ 
ple who planted potatoes in their back yards 
and their front yards last year, I say, don't 
do it this year. Your land needs rotation. 
Plant strawberries, the fruit is just as nec¬ 
essary in the long run as potatoes. Find 
some other place to plant potatoes or leave 
it to the large potato grower. The new race 
of everbearing strawberry plants bear ths 
same year they are set out, so you do not 
have to wait long. Tuck in a few raspberry, 
blackberry, currant, gooseberry or grape 
plants and you will have fruit before yon 
hardly know it. 
L. J. PARMER, 
Pulaski, Oswego Co., N. Y. 
Are Fall or Everbearing Strawberries A Success ? 
Address of L. J. Farmer, Pulaski, N. Y., before 
the American Pomological Society of 
Boston, Nov. 1st, 1917. 
With us, fall or everbearing strawberries 
are a decided success. I like to call them Fall 
Bearing Strawberries because the name more 
thoroughly distinguishes them from the 
spring bearing kind. 
This idea of gathering and eating fresh 
strawberries from some time in early June 
until November Ist, sounds good to the aver¬ 
age person and especially so the person who 
prefers strawberries to any other fruit. The 
dream may be realized, provided the proper 
care and attention be given to this new race 
of plants. I wish to say however, that my 
Information leads me to believe that the fall 
bearing strawberry is distinctly a Northern 
or cold weather proposition. They do not 
succeed so generally throughout the South. 
Fall bearing strawberries may be divided 
Into two groups,—those which pay principal¬ 
ly for the fall crop and those adapted for both 
the fall and spring crops. 
The most prominent of the varieties that 
seem to be adapted for fall fruiting only is 
the Francis. Under right conditions, the 
Francis will bear an enormous crop of extra 
large berries in the fall from August to hard 
freezing weather, but when fruited in the 
spring, it sets so many specimens that the 
berries are small, Irregular, knotted and prac¬ 
tically worthless. The BYancis is a very 
glossy, attractive berry and when it succeeds. 
It is the most profitable of all the new race of 
strawberries for the fall crop. The plant# 
are very small and weak when young, but 
stool out during the second season's growth, 
and make large plants, but are always shal¬ 
low rooted and will not stand the drouth like 
some varieties. Next in value for the fall crop 
Is the Americus, because it succeed! 
with so many more people. The Americus Is 
possibly the most profitable variety that hat 
yet been thoroughly tested for growing for 
the fall crop alone. It is not quite as large 
as the Francis nor as attractive, but the 
plants are deep rooters and withstand all 
changes. It will stand lots of wet weather, the 
foliage remaining healthy, and no drouth can 
kill the plants. The fields of Americus seem 
to improve and become more productive after 
several years. It is the finest flavored straw¬ 
berry that I ever tasted. The berries of the 
spring crop are larger than those of the fall 
crop but the plants are not so productive In 
the spring as some other varieties. The Pro¬ 
gressive is another variety adapted for its fall 
crop. In most sections of the country, the 
Progressive is In great favor but never has 
distinguished Itself with us in Oswego 
County, N. Y. The fruits are similar in size, 
shape, and color to Senator Dunlap, being a 
seedling of that variety, but have not the 
bright glossy color or the fine flavor of the 
Dunlap. The fruit is so dark in color that It 
soon gets too black in the market and it is 
also a poor shipper. The Progressive can be 
recommended for home use in many sections 
of the United States. It succeeds over a wid¬ 
er range of territory than most any other va- 
