The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-03-25
Practical Hints About Strawberry
Growing. 5f9n

tG 6rOWlu8s t3t0t
Among all the fruits that have been
bestowed upon man, the strawberry |
stands first, or queen of the list. Other |
fruits have their peculiar merits, and
each. in turn, claims our attention.
This delicious fruit, coming at time
when there is no other and when every
one has q natural craving for something
of the kind, is especially welcome. 1t
stimulates the appetite, thus promoting
health, and preventing sickness, and
perhaps being guilty OF causing lean
streak in the DOCTORS purse. One OF its
great merits is its certainty. People
sometimes imagine that if we have q
dry time in May or heavy frost late in
spring there will be no strawberries;
but We have the promise of seed time
and harvest-and for the last twelve
years the crop of Strawberries in this
section has not failed on account OF
drouth or late frost. It has been less-
ened sometimes, but never entirely cut
off. If there is any crop. even grass,
more sure than the strawberry, can
not think of it. Another of its recon-.
mendations is its universally. 1t -four
ishes from Hudson's Bay to the Gulf OF
Mexico. from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
On the stony hills of New England and
the sandy soil near the sea coast from
Long Island to Florida, and on the
black prairie soil of the West, in Cana
da. in the South and in all the Pacific
States-it grows spontaneously, and
with cultivation. 1t will thrive wher-
ever civilized man makes his home.
Still another merit of the strawberry
is its cheapness. Asman piece of ground
and little time and attention will pro-
vide liberal supply for a family
throughout the season. But perhaps Its
chief attraction, after all, is the pleasure
that attends its cultivation and use from
first to last. There is sort of tascina-
ton connected with it that is delightful
to experience. Setting out the plants,
knowing that in few months they will
yield so abundantly; cutting off the run
ners, with the assurance that every one
stopped means more nourishment stored
up in the crown for the production OF
fruit; covering in winter to protect the
roots from being broken and wre1ched
by frost; removing the winter covering
and seeing the plants start into growth
all this is delightful. But to watch the
fruit as it increases in size and ripens is
the browning pleasure of all.
Few crops will compare with the straw
berry in profit. An acre of land that
will raise from fifty to seventy-five
bushels of corn will, with the proper at
ten:ion, grow from one hundred and
fifty to two hundred and fifty bushels of
strawberries.
In naming the characteristics of the
perfect strawberry. five points are to be
considered: 1. Vigor and hardness.
2. Productiveness. 8. Size. 4. Ap.
pearance. 5. Quality.
For field culture, pillow and subsoil the
ground in the fall to the depth OF fifteen
to eighteen inches; set the plants in the
spring, as early as the ground can be
worked and thoroughly prepared; mark
off the rows with shallow marker three
and q half feet apart, and set the plants
twenty inches apart in the row, with al
| strong growing varieties; set as deer
as possible, so that the crowns are moi
: covered, leaving the plants little be
; low the surface. Cultivate thoroughly
.. keeping all weeds and grass down witt
cultivator and hoe. As soon as the run
ners make their appearance turn then
:. into the space between the plants in tn
. row so as to form matted row fifteel
: to eighteen inches wide. Keep all tn
bloom cut off the first season, as thi
1 will very materially increase the frs
> crop of fruit. As soon as the groun'
; freezes hard cover your beds from on
to two inches with clean wheat straw
As soon as spring opens remove tn
: straw from over the plants, and place
in the space between the rows; thi
!. keeps the ground moist and the weed
y down. AS soon as the fruit is all gath
y cred remove the straw, and pillow an
. work thoroughly-samea as first season
= It is a good plan to set new buds ev
IL ery spring, and after the third seaso
!. pillow up one, and so on. Another goo
= plan of renewal is, as soon as fruiting
- over, to take small turning plow an
run on each side of the rows, cuttin
- them down to ten or twelve inches wide
:, and then chop out the plants, where to
% thick, foot or so wide, at short intel
10 walls, in the rows. se
- If one expects to make strawberr
4 culture success, and at the same tim
to a paying business, seven conditions al
ID essential and necessary: Right kind
ar soil; proper preparation of the same
70 strong and vigorous plants; clean an
81 thorough cultivation; winter protection
r. summer picking; careful picking an
Of handling. These strictly compile
-. with, yearly crop of strawberries is I
ed certain as crop of any kind Of grail
Mt and fills the pocket with greenbacl
ey much faster. The past seasons crop
es this vicinity was about an average ON
Is. Prices very good. Nice, well-handlt
strawberries will always bring goo
price in this market. Not much dang
of glut. as it takes a little more lab
and closer attention than most fru
IS, growers are willing to give them.-l
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ne Knee Sprung.-The bending fc
=: =! ward of the front legs at the knee joi
- is caused by contraction. of the bat
~ sinews resulting from sprains. II
Is. treatment should be as follows: