Show fertilizing strawberries profitable t owl fertilized with add acid phosphate by W IL 11 CHANDLER CHANDL Cn the strawberry plant in practice propagates from runners that forni form new plants at the nodes normally after tho the plant bends sends up flower floer stems in the spring runners do not begin to form to any great extent before the end of the fruiting season however by re removing the fruit stems early in tho the season runners will begin to form earlier some growers remove tho the fruit stems in this way from young plants that have been sot act in the spring in order to hasten the beginning of runner formation the results indicate that the practice Is a good goad one the fruit Is borne on stems that come out of buds from train the crown of the strawberry plant want it Is the opinion a 0 a great many gro growers Ners that these buds are formed tile season before just as the buds of peaches apples etc are formed experience at the agricultural experiment station of missouri indicates that the number of fruit stems sent up from any crown can be influenced by spring treatment of the strawberry planting thus where strawberries were ere fertilized with nitrogen throwing the plants into vigorous rigorous growth groth runner formation began ear earll lipi pi and certainly fewer feer fruits aare borne whether this was nas because of poor pollination or because apa apor or blooms acro ere set 1 it Is no to eay say norm Nor crUy ay iy la to ono one crown cron to each plant Il Ilow owmer it the runners ate kept removed a number of crowns villi be fanned on each plant sometimes a largo large number growers growe r a in some sections practice removing t the he runners and causing the forma formation tinn of a large number of crowns on ono one plant this is known us as tho the hill system of culture thie this system makes malies it possible to cultivate tho the plants both w aam a e thus reducing the expense of hoeing in missouri however too the plants are grown in what Is knoon as the matted row system that Is tle runners are permitted to form new plants until a row fourteen to twenty inches wide Is formed alth ith the plants covering the entire low tow the question of fertilizing berries Is to receiving considerable attention at the present time the rhe results of several years of careful study and e extensive experiments at the missouri station are herewith given acid phosphate used alono alone at the rate of from to pounds to tho the acre has in five trials out of six given a profitable increase in the crop the one soil soll in which it was as not p profitably rofle applied was a much richer one than Is generally used for strawberries |