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OUR DUNLAP IN MATTED ROW—300 BU. PER ACRE. 
the spring at a much less price, but they were wanted for delivery to customers, 
new beginners doubtless, since they ordered of an agent, and for fall delivery. 
But they were to be our own selection, and we sent a good amount of the Senator 
Dunlap, a favorite variety for fruiting here, and of which we had abundance, to¬ 
gether with other sorts most likely to give satisfaction. When received he wrote 
us that the plants were fine, and we must send him 7,000 more, which also were 
delivered, but the plants were immature at best, more expensive, and there were 
risks that might have been avoided in the spring. But when these parties fruit 
the Dunlap they will have the genuine strawberry fever, and we have done some 
good for the cause at least. In time they will have learned to make their setting 
only in the spring for best results at least expense. 
That in summer is the best time to set strawberry plants for a crop the next 
year no doubt originated with some grower who found the space between his 
fruiting rows filled in August with weak degenerated plants, and thought he 
could sell them by judicious advertising. That such plants are worthless com¬ 
pared with larger and more vigorous young plants, grown from plants restricted 
many years from fruiting, is evident to all who give the subject thought, but 
the best time to set, part of the argument is still remembered by many new 
beginners of each year who are not posted. Runner plants, as soon as they have 
grown two or three slender roots, are often fuddled into pots, allowed to drain, 
and sold as pot grown plants, as though the plants had grown therein. A well 
rooted layer plant is better than such plants, and costs much less to ship, though 
impossible to guarantee them as we do in spring. But circumstances alter 
cases. We only want to tell it as it is, for the benefit of new beginners, and urge 
the setting only in the spring, if possible to do it then. 
Our crop was 750 bushels, as against 2,000 bushels in 1903. 150 bushels of 
these were picked from odds and ends of rows—a few plants here and there of 
different varieties — and from plants that were left as more or less injured by the 
winter. We were practically sold out of nearly everything, except a two acre 
patch of Senator Dunlaps grown especially for fruit on clay loam soil too sticky 
THE EATON RASPBERRY—SEE PAGE 24. 
