The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-22
A MONsTROUs YIELD.

find on reading the different meth
DDS of growers. each one has way OF
his own. which. after experimenting
with many ways. he adopts. The sea-
son being over with US, / will give you
a report of our beds and mode of Gull
ture. Jacksonville. IlI). My soil is a
mixture of sand and clay, sloping
slightly to the east. and is what is
called here crawfish land and is gen.
orally too wet to pillow in the spring
until 1t is too late to plant; so after
the bed is done bearing in June I plow
under and SOW to bockwheat and pillow
this under in October, harrow and roll
and smooth down the same as if it
was in spring. L do nothing more I'M
til time to set plants early in spring;
then L set the plants without replowing
in rows four feet, and two feet in the
row. using line and a long blade hoe
with short handle. about sixteen in
ches. Striking the hoe in the soil with
one hand and inserting the plant with
the left. then place the foot on it while
striking the hoe in for the next plant
This is the best implement 1 ever saw
for setting plants and they can be set
!about as fast as one can walk. / can
set one acre from sun to sun after
plants are dug. The planting being
uOUe now. DIS S.)On DIS the Will
permit. we commence cultivating, using
narrow shovels. Most writers say cul-
tivate and keep off runners until Au-
gust. That may do for them that say
that. but as a rule If it was done here
we would not get any plants at all,
for it gets very dry and hot, and aside
from that / don't see the use of it. T
know it is said to strengthen the par
ent plant. but we think we want strong
runner plants as we'll and start the
runners as soon as the plant begins to
throw out thrifty runners, getting
them rooted as soon as possible, which
is here about June 10. Letting them fill
all bare space and when within about
ten inches of meeting in the middle
cut off with roller cutter, leaving a
narrow path. this is easier than let
ting them fill and cutting out with hoe.
Some say let the plants be about six
inches apart, to let in the sun. Well.
here we differ again. We let all run
ners set that want to land there won't
be too many if planted 2x4) thus MAX
ing matted rows 312 feet wide. Some
one might saw the. fruit would be
small Well. ell L have got to say is
this-our beds. consisting of one acre,
under the methods given above, yield
ed this season $50 bushels of as fine
berries as ever grew-bushels and
bushels of them measuring up 6, z, and
as Haverland. fortified with Louise.
Candy and Cumberland; those berries
were every quart sold at the beds at
50 cents per gallon. Now, | wish to say
here in respect to letting the sun to
the berries. that the finest specimens
are those that are nestled down close
to the ground buried in the dead To-
liage of the plants. and have never
seen the sunlight. first turning a pure
white. then a beautiful scarlet; this is
the wav we find the wild Strawberries,
and I have demonstrated to my salts
faction that l can't get my plants
matted over the surface too thick; and
to make them produce good-sized fruit.
take but one crop, plow under, sow to
something green. and pillow under in
IOctober Sow fifty bushels wood ashes:
that is all 1 give the same beds from
year to year. and the result have al
ready given. after carrying them
through the worst drought last sum-
mer I ever saw
There is too much fine spun theory
about strawberry-gr growing, such as
planting and spreading the roots, on
a mound. letting a few runners set,
letc.: it puzzles the beginner My expe-
Irience is that good strong plants,
flair soil with unlimited cultivation,
will pay handsome returns, without
so much extra work as thinning, run
lner cutting and cultivating; at least.
mine did, anyway. A. Coon, in
Stra wberry CulturiSt.