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T HE moment your Moncrief 
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honest workmanship, backed 
by thirty years’ experience in 
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Distributed by 
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177 23rd Street, Jackson Hts., Long Island, N. Y. 
F. H. HANLON 
Batavia, N. Y. 
Made by 
The Henry Furnace & Fdry. Co., Cleveland, Ohio 
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Air chambers extra large,—insure full de¬ 
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Two ^Gallon Waterpan assures proper 
Roomy ashpit and door. All doors have 
beaded edges. All joints are grooved and 
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American Agriculturist, September 6, 1924’ 
Fall Strawberry Hints 
-For the Man Who Grows Them in a Small Way 
r THE garden By DAVID STONE KELSEY little hand help 
/, strawberry like ' these will grow up 
Indian corn, the potato and a lot of other thru it, protecting the fruit from 
good things, is 100% American. From 
its humble beginnings (about 1840) it has 
come to occupy, commercially, the most 
important place among all the so-called 
small fruits. And there is a double 
reason. It is the most popular as a fresh 
fruit for table use, and it is a profit-pro¬ 
ducing crop. 
As a commercial proposition, however, 
late summer or fall is no time to start a 
plantation. This chat is meant for the 
farmer and suburbanist who grow straw¬ 
berries primarily for their own use—to 
keep peace in the family. While the 
grape, on the table four months in the 
year, is a more important small fruit in 
food-value, it probably took a thousand 
years to get a hold upon popularity such 
as this humble first comer of spring 
already has in its eighty years. 
The strawberry plant is so constituted 
that a bed may be started by trans¬ 
planting any month in the year when the 
ground is not actually frozen. But 
there are two recognized seasons for this 
work: April-May and the present time, 
which is in some ways the better of the 
two, especially for the real garden “fan” 
with a liking for fancy work. Pot-grown 
plants that have been carefully selected 
will give a half crop next spring besides a 
bumper crop a year later. In case of the 
everbearing strawberry, fall is the better 
time to start them. 
Methods of Growing 
For garden use, plants may be set in 
rows three feet apart every 15 to 20 
inches—no closer, and these, after once 
fruiting, be allowed to make a few runner 
plants until these stand 6 to 8 inches 
apart, making what is called the narrow 
matted row, but retaining an aisle of one 
foot width. But if there is plenty of land, 
as in the usual farm garden, set them in 
four-foot rows, two feet apart. It will be 
easier work caring for them. This is the 
regulation field-culture distance. 
Do not set other than new plants nor 
before about September first unless well 
potted. With any others there is great 
risk in August from the burning sun and 
less frequent rains. Careless work here 
will never win unless the season happens 
to be favorable. 
Use rich garden soil only. Never set a 
strawberry on newly turned turf, on poor 
land or where so low or flat there is 
danger of mud in summer or flooding in 
winter. If manure is needed, let it be in 
the form of chemicals only. Any other 
will heap up trouble in the form of weeds 
the constant bane of this relatively 
plodding plant. Acid phosphate, well 
incorporated with the soil before setting 
(1000 lbs. per acre) is almost a complete 
manure until near blossoming time, then, 
topdress a 4-10-6 liberally. Unlike most 
garden plants, they do not require the 
land to be sweet or limed tho there must 
be plenty of humus for best results, well 
rotted turf being the best. 
Giving Berries Winter Protection 
Clean and frequent culture is the only 
other requisite until the ground freezes, 
then immediately apply a mulch that 
while always admitting air gives a com¬ 
plete shade from winter sun. It is not 
the freezing but sudden thawing that 
injures the crowns and heaves out the 
roots. Use any kind of clean straw, 
salt hay, pea-haulm, corn-stover or even 
pine needles—but never forest leaves, as 
these sometimes settle down air-tight. 
Then, in March, or whenever the 
crowns begin to show signs of growing, 
rake the mulch into each aisle for later 
returning about the plants. If stover or 
rough haulm was used in winter, shorter 
softer stuff must now replace it. This is 
scattered lightly above the plants just 
before the blossom stems rise. With a 
ground. Do not fear smothering now. 
The rains pound down and decay the 
stiffest straw. Use it freely. Never per¬ 
mit yourself to grow gritty fruit. 
Varieties That Are Desirable 
The only safe rule is to plant the kind 
that others have succeeded with in your 
immediate neighborhood. With a few 
notable exceptions such as the recent 
Howard 17, the Chesapeake and Premier, 
which are so vigorous they are almost 
sure-fire everywhere, no expert feels safe 
to recommend by name. The wildness 
has not yet been bred out of this gamey 
plant. It has strong likes and dislikes 
not yet fully understood, every variety 
succeeding in this place and failing i n 
that, and vice versa, without any ap¬ 
parent rule. 
More than 1800 named “varieties” 
have been listed and offered for sale by 
reliable growers. Perhaps a hundred or 
more, now twenty years old, are locally 
still favorites. Here in the eastern 
States Sample, Abington, Glen Mary, 
Hm. Belt, Bubach, Late Stevens, Gandy' 
Dunlap, Marshall, Kellog, Heritage and 
Big Joe, with Progressive, Superb and 
others among the more recent everbearing. 
All these have their enthusiastic en¬ 
dorsers. 
Set Only Good, Strong Plants 
No variety will satisfy unless good 
plants are set and then thoroughly cared 
for. Only the strongest plants' should 
ever be used. Those first formed on a 
runner from the mother plant are far 
preferable to any farther away. Pre¬ 
cisely ^like what we erroneously term 
seed . potatoes, the runner strawberry 
plant is but a “bud extension”—not a 
new generation at all. Yet people who 
would not plant potato parings or long- 
cut potato ‘seed” with spindling, sec¬ 
ondary sprouts, will unthinkingly accept 
and transplant by the thousand the weak 
tip plants dug from the aisles by un¬ 
scrupulous dealers. 
J. he plant set should he Dig —fresh dug 
fiom strong, thick-stemmed runners and 
have stout crowns. Then clip off all but 
the two youngest leaf-stalks, set them at 
exactly the right depth and tramp firmlv, 
following immediately by raking the 
surface soil loose again, unless too wet, 
and keep loose and cultivated till No¬ 
vember. 
Getting Another Year Out of the 
Old Bed 
The old bed may be made to bear one 
more year if at once handled thoroughly. 
If now a matted row, plow or spade up the 
aisles until the row remaining is not over 
10 inches wide and then carefully cut out 
any old parent plants remaining in the 
row' and fertilize liberally—at least at 
ra te of one ton per acre. Thereafter 
cultivate and hoe clean of every bit of 
weeds and grass the same as for a new-set 
bed. 
If, however, the old bed is badly leaf- 
spotted or rusted, this will hardly pay. 
Better turn it under or, if a small garden, 
first mow off the rusted foliage and burn 
it. The spraying of strawberries is not to 
be . recommended. Better change the 
variety, and the location. 
Don ’ts 
Don’t try to go into commercial straw¬ 
berries by fall setting a large area. It 
won’t pay. Set such in spring only. 
Don t set any large area to a straw¬ 
berry not yet tested thoroughly in your 
own neighborhood. Maintain an ex¬ 
perimental plot. 
Don’t set any but fresh-dug plants that 
are big and strong. The tip-runners, 
such as the cultivator turns out, are 
worthless. 
