Show our part in feeding the nation information service V 8 0 agriculture strawberries FROM SUMMER TO FROST canted tn april this field of an type gave a crop the following autumn BERRY long season strawberries have passed trial period OF REAL VALUE FOR MARKET heretofore varieties have been grown chiefly by amateurs and commercial growers crop first season strawberries from your garden throughout summer and autumn are now a possibility as the result of the perfection of varieties pt this delicate berry strawberries are not a brand new als covery but heretofore they have been grown by amateurs and corn growers who have tested them in comparison with ordinary sorts in a recent publication of the united states department of agriculture an no is made that a sufficient number of trials of these varieties now have been completed to indicate their real value for home use and for market in certain sections of the country primarily a northern type the regions where it Is cnown that overbearing varieties can be grown extend as far south as the northern parts of virginia kentucky arkansas and kansas south of these limits there are probably points where they may be grown with some degree of success but they are not definitely known to succeed there the two leading varieties of this type of strawberry the progressive and the superb are notable not only because they produce fruit from the time of the usual crop until late summer or autumn but also because they are exceptionally resistant to leaf spot diseases they ore also hardy the has been found to withstand the winters of the middle west better thin any ather variety ex capt the dunlap one of its parents the superb also Is hardier than most varieties of strawberries another re characteristic of these varieties Is that if their blooms are killed by frost they soon flower again therefore in many sections subject to late spring frosts which often destroy the crop these varieties are particularly valuable small crop first season it plants of the type are set early in the spring a small crop hii in i m H 1 i HH 1 ii i HI SET strawberries EARLY TO GET FRUIT FIRST YEAR laray spring as soon as you can get into the garden Is the time to set elerbe iring straw berries or in fact any straw berries with such an early start a larger crop of fruit can be obtained the first vear the plants also have opportunity to become established and to de celop better root systems before beginning to fruit the mark edly different behavior of the long season varieties has led to the development of cultural practices differing in special de tails from those followed in the production of standard sorts A directions for the culture of the types in so far as the methods differ from erdl nary practices with ries anre given in farmers bul of the U S debirt ment of agriculture rt ahi H H HI H i rf 1 f A s A can be had the first season plants which have been set for a year give a fair yield at the time the usual strawberry crop Is borne for the period immediately after this early summer crop the amount of fruit secured Is small in august september and october it becomes larger and un der favorable conditions the late sum or autumn crop from certain varl atles may equal or exceed the early summer crop thus instead of a constant supply throughout the season there Is a distinct early summer crop 1 I 11 1 1 11 III i HH KINDS OF EVER BEARERS AVAILABLE TO GROWERS thirteen varieties of ever bearing straw berries are in the trade at present they are ad vance americus Amerl cus autumn for ard francis iowa onward pan american peerless prodoc alv e progressive and superb in addition a variety 1 known as the minnesota no Y 1017 distributed by the glnn sota state horticultural society and the minnesota agricultural experiment station has been in produced trod only two of the va introduced the alve and the superb have been widely grown as yet the amer icus Is grown to a slight extent and the others very little the minnesota no 1017 has been widely tested in minnesota and Is grown to a slight extent in surrounding states farmers bulletin of the united states department of ture describes these varieties in detail and discusses their suit ability to different sections H II alien a period of comparative rest when little fruit Is produced followed by a long period when n fairly uniform amount of fruit Is borne weather conditions play an important part in the amount of fruit produced during the summer and autumn only when the moisture supply and other conditions are favorable can the be constant for this reason the results obtained from the varieties have varied greatly in the different sections of the country and in different years if n long drought occurs while the plants are the berries become small and the plants finally cease to bear therefore The they axe not well adapted to sections having long droughts ex capt when can be supplied territories produce more the two minion people la alaska iian all porto itaco aad guam are try ing to do their part for the food sup ply through ita experiment stations in these possessions the united department of agriculture early in the emergency started campaigns to in crease food production to make the territories less dependent upon the mainland of this country for their supplies Is the aim of the federal work era important results already have been obtained porto rico which formerly imported more than worth of beans ai dually from alie mainland now Is in a position to export this product th alaska stations have greatly increased the areas sown to grains and now are able to meet increased demand for seed grains locally adapted the guam station Is distributing larger quantities of seeds and plants for cultivation by the natives prospects of an increased production of food hawaii also has materially increased Us production of food crops before the hawaii and porto illch illco imported some worth of food supplies from this country annually many the nr tides imported can be grown fully il these |