The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-27
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 Southern Farm Gazette.
 Strawberries, blackberries and rasp- berries, in the order named, are the small fruits best adapated to garden culture in our climate. Strawberries and blackberries do well almost every where in Mississippi kaspberries suc- ceed better in the northern, than in the southern. portion, perhaps; but with care in the selection of varieties and with good attention, an abundance of this delicious fruit for the family may be produced in almost every gar den.
 While almost any soil that will grow the common garden vegetables will answer, the berries named are all clay loving fruits; and succeed best on a fine grained, rather compact soil that will absorb and retain large quantity of moisture. Soil of medium fertility is best for strawberries and blackberries; the richer. the better for raspberrtes.
 The picking season for strawberries in central Mississippi begins about April 10th. and continues from five tc ten weeks, tapping well onto the rasp- berry and blackberry harvest The three fruits should furnish fresh Der. ries for the table daily from three tC four months each season. A family oi six should eat at least one gallon oi berries each day. Granting that the season lasted only one hundred days one hundred gallons of berries would be consumed At an average of ter cents per quart. $40 would be the mon. ey required to purchase these berrie. in the market.
 Berries fom ones own garden, where they may remain on the plants un- til just right for the table, are not to be compared to the very best to bt had from the markets. If it were possible for all the markets in all thC villages and towns of the State tC keep a supply of fresh fruit on hand all the time, and if they should offer berries without money and without price, it would be impossible for tho major part of the population to avai themselves of the gift. Fruit in sea son should not be regarded as luxury It Is a necessity. Granting this to be fact, possibly the suggestions giver may help the readers of this article grow all the berries they can possibly use at home and at small cost.
 One hundred and twenty-five square yards, or about one-fortieth of an acre Is sufficient area in strawberries for a family of six. Give about the same area to raspberries and to blackber- ries. For strawberries this will give five rows three feet apart and seventy five feet long. Setting the plants eighteen inches apart in the row, 25( plants will set the patch.
 The same area will allow three row' of raspberries and two of blackberries each seventy-five feet long. Raspber. ry and blackberry plants should be sci about thirty inches apart in the row. Before planting is done the soi shonid be deeply stirred andNthorough. iy puiverized. November for fal planting and February IS to March 15 for spring planting are usually sue planting may begin early in the fall sav october 1, and may continue lat, as March IS. Avoid settin sucl plants during freezing weatherior dur inc the fall win produce quitk a nic, iitfie Ii crop of fruit the scllowinA spring If fruit is desired the firsa spring strawnsrsy plants rpay be sst sik incheI