The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-01

to tobacco, cabbage etc, as to straw
berries. It sets, waters and manures at
one operation, but the soil must be in
ideal condition for these machines to do
good work
While some varieties of strawberries
do well on heavy land and others on
sandy soil, the best soil for this fruit
is good rich garden soil, and next
best lis any good corn land" except
bottom land. Second bottom or any
level we'll drained, deep loan, rather
sandy, is to be preferred. Too much
sand is as Objectionable as too much
clay. But the land should be suffi-
GENTLY sandy to prevent baking. A
southern exposure gives earlier ber-
rles, but a northern exposure gives a
longer season and a heavier crop. The
land should be clean, free of grass and
weed seeds, and most thoroughly and
deeply prepared, as for a kitchen
garden.
If the soil is not naturally rich it
pays well to make it so. For a COM
mercial fertilizer. mix LAO pounds
high grade superphosphate, $40 pounds
nitrate Of soda and 800 pounds muriate
of potash, and apply 500 to 1000 pounds
per acre, owing to fertility of the land.
Apply broadcast, and harrow in, be-
fore setting, and when the plants be-
gin new growth the next spring apply
The pistillate varieties Chose whose
MOWERS produce no pollen or duSO are
generally heavier troopers than those
having perfect blossoms. In planting
pisuiiia;es every third row should be
or some variety having perfect bios
SONS, otherwise there will be no crop.
The two kinds should bloom at the
same time, ripen together and be as
nearly as possible of the same size and
color, that they may be picked and
marketed together.
The bulletin discusses mulching, ir-
rigation, insect enemies, fungus dis
eases, etc.
Methods of eight prominent growers
in different sections of Georgia, one in
South Carolina, and one in Tennessee
are given. None of these take more
than two crops from plat before
turning it under, and most of them
take but one. Three of them employ
the stool system; the rest matted rows
setting rows three to four feet apart
and plants II to 80 inches in the row,
and allowing these to run and set their
offspring all around them. Three plants
IN March, two in July, two in August
and the others in the fall. None of
them use transplanting machines. and
none practice irrigation, though some
think it would pay. All give clean
culture. In naming the six best va
rlet1es, nearly all of these growers in
clude Michel, Hoffman, Haverland and
Bubach. Among the others not so Of
ten mentioned are Sharpless, Crescent,
Warfield, Candy, Enhance, Greenville,
Mrs. Cleveland, Brandywine, 'Tennes-
see Prolific, Cumberland and Enor-
nous The station tested y varie-
ties. and of these the best three very
early kinds for heavy yields were Geor-
gia Triumph, Hoffman and Lady
Thompson; best three medium season,
Enhance, Princess and Beder Wood;
best three late kinds, Haveland, Enor-
nous and Princess. The largest berry
and most uniform in shape was
a snowy, midseason berry
of good quality and fairly productive
The highest in quality was Meek's
early, a small early berry, fairly pro-
ductive. If but a single variety is de-
sired, the station would recommend
Lady Thompson; if two varieties it
would add Haverlan6; if six, it would
add Hoffman. Beder Wood Parker
Earl and Bubach.