Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-04-04

family i1il ffor itself of the area
ct ground theY need ffor this bur pose
After the plants are set there "a 8 large
vacant space between the rows that may
be sntilized for other: nick growing
crops that will .pa7 for tho cult alton
OF the plants for tlle first season Early
peas or beans Of the dwarf varieties,
lettuce, Ta6lishes, early beets, carrots or
the Jersey W akefeld cabbage may be
raised between the rows OF plants With
out damage to them, provided they are
taken off in due time, the ground calti-
waited, and put i'm good condition for
the the oung plants as they begin forming
rum rs. Let the runners form 4 thick
green bed until they are matted row
sof say two feet wide. After this RIM
through with either; the horse or the
hand cnltivator, and destroy those IN
truding upon what is left for the path
or alley between the rows. The W ilson
will almost always attempt TO bear some
fruit the first season, but it will be much
better for the growth Of the plants, as
well as for the next seasons crop, if
the blossoms are all picked off, and no
fruit allowed to grow the first season.
Keep the plants free from weeds and
grass through the entire season, and at
its close when the. ground has frozen
sufficiently hard to bear, cover the
plants with some marsh hay, or str aw
is equally sgood, provided tits not filled
with foul seeds to annoy you the follow
ing season. Put on cover sufficient to
hide the leaves from view. Leave it in
the spring, until the ground is done
freezing nights ands thawing day time.
1t may then be raked off the plants ,and
left in the alleys or carried entirely
from the beds as may be preferred.
AS the warm weather comes ON the
plants will load themselves with bios
soms,, and then with fruit. While the
fruit is growing the beds need plenty
of moisture. II nature does not supply
a sufficient quantity, it is much better
to do it by artificial means than to fair
OF having nice crop after all the labor
that you have already done upon them.
1t is much better to give them one
thorough watering, and then leave them
for few days, than to merely sprinkle
the plants every day.
After the crop is taken off clean out
all the weeds and grass, and the old
plants that look feeble and exhausted
and give ground to the young and thrifty
ones, and you Will almost certainly Sc
cure another good crop the following
year.
Downer's Prolific is a hardy plant, a
fair bearer of moderate-sized early fruit,
and Of excellent quality. If one wants
to prolong the season, the Kentucky is
the best that I have tried for that pur-
pose. 1t is q fair bearer Of good-sized.
berries, and they are of good quality. I
like it much better than the Glendale
for late berry. If one wishes for some
very large fruit, the Sharpless is fine
grower, and will give one few very
large berries, only moderate in quality.
With ME it is utterly worthless except
as just mentioned. The farmer should
not bother with any of the pistillate
kind. They have no advantages over
the perfect-fowering varieties, and do
require some extra work and care to Sc
cure crop. It will not, as rule, pay
the farmer to try to get more than two
crops from single bed; in fact, it is
better to set small one each year then
he will be sure of fruit if his old bed fails
after the first year, as it sometimes will
II it bears very heavily.-J. NJ. Smith
Brown Co., Wis. 1t