Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1907 — Farm and Garden [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Farm and Garden

FANCY STRAWBERRIES. Some Kinds That With Proper Culture Produce Large Fruit An interesting account of the Millionaire strawberry is given in Rural New Yorker, which says: Five years ago Henry Jerolaman, the New Jersey strawberry man, produced a seedling, specimen fruit, which Is here shown. When the Increase of the first plant had made a rbw eight feet long Mr. Jerolaman on going away one day told the boy left In charge that no berries were to be sold from those plants for less than $1 per quart, thinking that would be prohibitive. On his return the boy handed him $4, a ens-

tomer having taken four quarts, all that were ready at the time. Next day the same man returned and got three quarts more. This was running Into money so fast that Millionaire seemed an appropriate name for the berry. This year the finest of the crop has wholesaled at 40 cents in New York. The fruit Illustrated was two Inches In diameter and about as large as any seen. Many run from one and a quarter to one and a half Inches. The shape is uniform, no coxeombing being noted; color bright red, with a fine gloss; quality good, above the average to my taste. Its season Is long and nearly every berry Is matured. Tbe foliage Is strong and abundant, the plants standing from ten to fifteen Inches high by actual measurement. In the same journal Is given an Illustration of Kevltt’s new seedling, which is said to promise well. In regard to growing fancy strawberries Mr. Kevltt writes: For fancy trade plaut New York, President, Oom Paul, William Belt, Dixon, Marshall and Glen Mary. To produce strawlierries of mammoth size, so that a dozen berries will fill a quart basket, plants should be set out in the early part of August in

good, rich soil and kept well cultivated during the growing season. All runners should be kept off the plant. Emil Gorafe, a grower of the Dixon, also says: I like to set strawberry plants for large fruit In August or early September on land well enriched with fresh stable manure the previous spring. Farm Wood Lets. ———• ■ ■ ■ ■' Throughout a very large portion of the United States nearly every farm has a certain part of its area under wood, either planted, as In regions otherwise treeless, or of natural growth. The value of thjs wooded portion, besides affording protection from tbe wind, is chiefly for fuel, fencing and railroad ties, with some building material and the wood needed for special uses about the farm. Without the wood lot the farm very often would be au unprofitable Investment, because the farmer could not afford to buy the wood which now costs him very little except the labor of cutting and moving it, but in the majority of cases this part of the farm is far less useful than It might easily be made. This is true because the farmer does not study its productive capacity as he does that of his fields aud pastures, and hence does not make it yield as fully as he might, with little or no additional labor, if he went about It Ln tbe right way.— Gifford Plnchot Do It Now. When a fence Is down, put it up, and then it will not get any worse. When a harness Is broken, mend It before iyou have a runaway or before It becomes worthless. When weeds, bugs or fling threaten, get after them before the damage is done.— Farm Journal. ■ ■ Calory In Solid Beds. Where celery planted in solid beds is banked with earth the entire qnantlty of soli required must be thrown np by hand. Under these conditions banking with soil is not profitable except on h very limited scale.—W. R. Beattie.

MILLIONAIRE STRAWBERRY.

KEVITT'S NEW SEEDLING.