St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1915-03-06
Farm Demonstration.

How and Why Strawberries Should
Pay i'm Louisiana, and HOY the
Berry Market Has Broadened In
the Past Ten Years.
(By Harry D. Wilson, Roseland, La
As many of US can recall less than
ten years ago the berry growers of
Tangipahoa parish had to depend al
most alone on the Chicago market to
dispose Of his crop Of fruit and then
it was all consigned to some comm:s-
sion man and the grower had to
take whatever the commission man
saw fit to send him. Conditions are
entirely different now. First, we
have buyers to come to us and pay
cash for our goods, and with the as
sistance of the express company and
the railroad we had last year seventy
cities to take our splendid fruit in
car lots instead of only one, as it
was less than ten years ago. The
Louisiana berry gets ON the market
just after Florida has finished and
we have from four to six weeks with
very little, If any, competition, and
as our berries have been SO well adj
vSAGA0Cu Viz AVJAU ~ IA lAg ANVi 0Au
West looks for our berries in early
spring the same as we look for the
homeing Of the martins and the white
head humble bee, SO let us know
that old winter is over. 1t is true
that our berries did not carry very
well last year, but am sure it was
caused by the very late cold weather
in March and April, and the growers
not using enough potash in fertiliz-
ing.
am quite sure if the berry grow
ers will pillow up all his plants every
spring as soon as shipping is over
Except enough to replant what he
and plant the fields in soy
beans, cow peas or snap beans to
dry and seed in the fall, they will
build up the soil, put some forage |
IN the barn for his stock and have a /
tall money crop. ] am of the opin-
on that our farmers can set out new
plants every fall as cheap il not
cheaper than he can work his old
plants during the summer months.
\ crop Of beans or peas are we'll
worth ten dollars per. acre for the
Cd JAAAty W IAC SOAA IAO A0y 0AOuAu VIC L
worth at least ten dollars and the
'eans or peas anoher ten dollars, so
figure that this rotation is well
Worth thirty dollars per acre and
GU surely will increase your yield
t berries and have some awful good
ay TO feed on without taking your
cry money to buy it with. Fl
( II our berry farmers will keep
heir fields well drained, plant more
oy beans and peas and use a little
lore potash. grow his mule and
orse feed, there is no reason why
MS should not be the best agricul-
lral section In the United States. I
he parish of Tangipahoa shipped in
e season of 1914, 1927 full cars OF I
errles. and about BAT cars Of vege- {
tbles. / give below list of cities .
! the United States and Canada that i
,ceived from l to 284 cars Of our
,lendid Louisiana Strawberries. I
hese are shipments that went by
Lpress as did not get the destina- q
ons on freight shipments. Am en- S
osing you copy of letter received s
ON Mr.. Chas. Campbell, Chief
quite Agent of American Express b
Mr.. Campbell also states b
at the company will use every en- p
.avor to furnish sufficient cars to o
Ike care of the business in 1915. /
le reason l mention Tangipahoa n
IRISH and use the figures from that ii
IRISH Is it Is the only section in
,uisiana that grows the strawberry {
any extent p
In conclusion l want to say to all O
r farmers and especially the berry 81
overs: remember that feed stuff II
high and Is going to remain high, "
don't neglect that corn and hay K
,p for 1915. II
Express shipments Of Strawberries II