Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-09-05
Fall Planting of Strawberries.

ny llllS We llCdl INC trains plttiIluS
Of runners of the present years growth,
whether it be done in July or October.
BY care and skill it may be done as soon
as the young roots are an inch in length,
or even earlier. The rule is, however,
that Il plant is not old enough to set I'M
til ii has branChed roots; nor is it self
supporting until sometime later. For
this reason it is necessary to remove
one or more OF the leaves when setting
out very young plants in the summer,
lest more sap be cvapOrated than the
roots can supply. As the season adj
vanCCs. more roots are developed, and
there is less risk in the operation.
The advantage Of pottcd plants is
that they receive little or no check in
being planted, even if it be done by an
unskilled person. This enables one TO
fruit new variety to perfection in
nine TO ten months after planting.
While one may not get "a full crop, he
will usually get more than he other
wise could. This is important with
new high-priccd varieties.
The disadvantages are that they cost
more, express charges are higher, and
the larvae of Injurious insects, as the
strawberry worm, crown borer and
crown girdlcr, are liable to be carried
III the pots to the new plantation. This,
however, can occur only when plants
are laycrcd in the pots in an old bed
where those pests arc found.
As Il rule, pOttcd plants should be
used near where they are produced, so
as TO save express charges. II common
varieties have to be sent for, it is a
good plan TO buy layers and pot them
on arrival. II the roots are too long
they may be shortened. Common lay
cr plants ported in twO-inch pots, and
put in frame where they may be
shaded and watcred when necessary,
will make good pOttcd plants in from
one to two weeks. This will save a
dollar hundred on the first cost, and
nearly all the transportation charges.
We use one-and-a-half and two-iuch
pots, and ship in handled baskets lined
with wax paper and damp moss. The
plants are laid on their sides in the
pots, with moss between the layers,
ard then each layer is covered with
moss and cloth cover sewcd on. One
and-a- half-inCh pots run thirteen TO a
pound, aud when filled with damp soil
seven to the pound. There is no pro-
lection to the roots of a pot plant while
in transit that is nearly as good as the
pot in which it grew. One hundred oil
the smallest sizes weigh about twenty
pounds when packed. Matthew Craw.
ford, CuyahOga Falls, Ohio.
Small FIocks.
An idea which is fast gaining grounC
with practical sheep men is that small
flock comparatively small ones-are
the most profitable. The popular no
ton, in the range countries at least
used to be that the larger the flock, The
greater the Profits. This idea is fas
being dissipated, and the days of hand
ling sheep by the tens OF thousands il
numbered, even on the plains of Texas
Certain kinds Of sheep do better thar
others in fOcks OF several thousands
but it is fact which experience ha
demonstrated, that there is no kind O
sheep which will thrive as well in
large flock as in small one. In thes,
huge bands of sheep a vast number di,
anu d NtSb HulHDet are lclb, ana nom
receive the attention which common
economy demands. 1t may pay in on
sense TO have one herder to attend l.
more sheep than two men could prop
erly see to, bat it pays in no other way
and it must be remembered that tn
item OF expenses involved IN the wage
, OF the man who attends the fiocks is on
which is either the largest or smalles
in the business, for the profit or loss Q
the flock depends more on him tina
upon the man who furnishes the none
, and attends to the financial manage
ment.
, In a general way it may be set dow
as fact that to attempt economy i
the pay OF the man or men who loo
after the sheep every day, is TO tur
what should be profit into loss, for me
Of experience know that the shee
herder who pretends to work for tn
, least pay is generally the most exper
, sive individual that could be engaged
: The sheep raiser OF the present tim
seems to think he is beset with an III
usual number Of hardships. and SO h
has a great deal to contend with in OF
} der to make his business a success, bl
the hardships are simply incident I