Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-05

strawberries including the seven lead
ing varieties of everbcarlnE straw
berries. the Bushcl-hasbet. the Fran
els. the Anericus. h Superb. the
Neverfail. the Progressive. and his
latest variety. The Americas did
used. to live. but doesn't seem to do
AS we'll up here. The soil here is very
different, This was a poor straw
berry season and We picked only
ABOUT ten cases per Gay. The weather
was~too variable With too many ex-
Easily Grown Fruit.
Strawberries are very easily
grown fruit. and here in Northern
Minnesota they require little care. TO
protect them owe the winter all that
Is necessary is to cover them with
straw. The snow does the rest. AS
soon as they begin to sprout In the
spring and tho first leaves begin to
come through. | take the straw off.
IL they should get touched with a
spring frost no listing damage is
done as they will blossom again. OF
purse il they arc inside a grove they
do much better as this bleak wind out
here is rather hard on them. Still
have no protection at all for mine.
and they do very well. What grows
here for me should grow anywhere.
Clip the Roots.
"stra wberries should always be set
out in the spring with the roots clip
ped and tho leaves trimmed down.
The blossoms shou.d be kept off them
until the tenth of July. If by that
m they rave become good hardy
plants firmly abolished it is alright
to let them bear. The blooms from
feeble looking plants should be pinch
ed off, and they should not be allow
cd to bear at all the first season. BY
the second year these feeble plants
may have developed into fine strong
plants.
About an acre Of my gardens is
devoted to raspberries. Raspeberries
arc very hardy and arc very easy tc
raise | don't cover mine or do any.
thing ITO protect them in the winter
] have been raising the Idaho dark
rcd raspberries for the last seventeen
wears n have never had a failure
with the mo have they over frozer
down. advise setting them in the
spring always as they do much better
that way. ] have almost go" loss Il
all from spring set stuff.
Hold Plants Back.
These raspberrics were planted
-four years ago. They will pear thu
first season if you allow them to.
never allow mine to as | find the,
will no bear as vel! in s%ucceedin,
seasons + cut them back about
tn I'd the first wear. and each sue
: ceeding fab I trim them to max
them bush like q tree. Then in tn
fruiting4 eason the i~ateraIs are al
ways heavily loaded. This treatmen
makes them much harder. and tn
shape .ofthe bush makes it possibl
for the branches TO support a heavie
yield Of fruit.
Last summer was a poor fruit sea
% but cren so ! picked as high a
1erty twenty-four pint cases per sda
off my raspberry patch. employee
ar many as t~hirty-fvc pickers. + sol
The fruit EteSthe storer and to, privat
Scustomers.| it kept nc busy ever
tIe raspberries only every other da.
bu. thisssXear the weather was so he
that the bcrties had to be pickle
every 6ay4as they rfpened SO fast.
"Tll2sd;ficulty Of, getting heIptis
freat handfcap in the raising of frui
here. There are not enough fruI
growers UP here 10 attract the Pre-
fessional fruit pickers, and the ines
per.enced help is expensive. use
35 W. CItlplOy rbE tLOOAtES tSU 8G pTOlcS6lOnk
pickers TO DO the work that I mus
# hire Thirty men here to do. Man
fruit growers have been forced out
! the business Just because OF tn
searcityaof good experienced labor.
Last spring ]. put out 4. 800 youn
apples, T~rancendents and Florenc
crdbapples. They made a growth I
nearly three feet. III grated and de
xeIoped these myself. making thel
thoroughly hardy o this climate.
other Fruit.
and white ~currsnts are IA,
critics In my gardens, too. ! get OF
about five thousand red currants Ia