Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-21

grass and the crops of fruit will diminish
rapidly-and there is great economy in hay.
ing a new plantation coming on to take the
place of the bearing one, so that after the first
and best crop Of fruit is gathered, no time or
labor need be wasted waiting for inferior
ones; but the ground may be plowed and it
will be in fine condition for wheat CROP to
be followed with grass. Thus the strawberry
will form part of the rotation of farm crops,
coming in after corn and before neat. I'm
der the above treatment in beds, We have had
2l0 bushels per acre, which sold at nine cents
per quart, brought 5000.
''When it is desired to continue a strawber-
rp bed for sc eral years in the same place,
the plants should not be allowed to strike
root nearer to each other than from ten to
twelve inches, so that small iron tooth rake
may be passed freely among them to loosen
the surface to prevent grass and weeds from
starting; mark the rows five feet apart, and
set the plants one foot apart in the rows, and,
as the plants throw out runners, fastcn two
on each side Of the parent, at ten inches dis
tant, making beds three feet six inches wide,
and leaving eighteen inches for alleys. All
other runners should be cut off This ar
rangement will average just one plant to
square foot of land counting alleys, and will
give 1850 plants to the acre, and allowing
four hills, occupying four square feet of land,
to yield one quart of fruit, the acre at the
same time will yield $40 bus els.
alt would be interesting to4 know the
quantity Of bcrrese sent to this city dur
ing the season; and | would suggest the
propriety of this society taking measures to
ascertain that fact. In order to form an idea
what were grown in our immediate vicinity OF
MooreStown, Burlington, N. j., directed
the tOll-gatherer last year to ascertain from
each wagon the amount taken through one
bridge over Cooper's Greek, leading to Cam
den, and it averaged over six hundred bushels
day for ten days, one day reaching seven
hundred bushels; SO that within ten days over
5000 bushels Of Strawberries were carried to
Philadelphia from our neighborhood, through
this one channel, at at the moderate price of
So Is per buShel, the farmers carried home
with them from the city at least 10000.
'The above does not include the large
amount of strawberries sent to PHILADELPHIA
from this part Of New Jersey on other roads,
and by water or the amount would be dou-
bled; nor has it any reference to the quanti-
ty sent to New York from here by railroad.
One farmer who sends mainly by that line,
has forty acres devoted TO Strawberries, and
another received, for one days picking, sent
to New York, $500. A short time since |
visited the large strawberry plantations in Ma
ryland, few miles south of Baltimore, from
whence the earliest Strawberries in the Phila-
delpma markets are mainly brought. Sever
al growers there. residing near each other,
have from eighty to one hundred acres each
devoted to strawberries, and one of them
more, and have received for the berries sent
to Philadelphia $4,000 of a season, clear of
commissions. Last season, | was informed
one sold $4,000 quarts, at an average of six
cents, amounting to $7500-employing $50
pickcrS, men, women, and children to gather
the crop