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Show k EARLY STRAWBERRIES. . 9 R Some orthe Vnrlotlos Which nave (liven 1 ? Jf, 'Satisfactory Koattlts. 1 Thevcry early atrnwWrry fighting I for life r.raid the gulcllyjiltcrnnlin'g' cx-I' cx-I' 1 tremes 6E honljjand cold of ctirfpring II 'is apt to be generally Inferior tovnric-I tovnric-I tics ripening: later and under more" fall fa-ll m -lornble conditions. Laboring undergo I W jv imiuy di?adantngcs from weather It I B must have all the advantages '(IiaTsoil ' Ik ' can give to attain any d"gree of cxccl- I W lence. With all these advantage many IV more early strawberries prove failures II lian any other lcjnd. After many years' R B experience and the testing of many I S hundreds of varieties, I find thai the II Murray and the Improved Westbtook B H urc the best, I have tested them fully. IS lloth ripen their fruit before Crescent IV or such varieties called early begin I to ripen at all. As experienced growers mm know, tills is very early indeed. Both' B are very prolific, of tjie .most perfect mm and brilliant red, nnd about the finest BR and best shippers I ever qw. Their HP size is good averaging, .with Crescent. BJft Tleing pistillntes tliey should have Hw Meek s Enrly planted every fourth row V as pollen'zers. Eleanor I hnve not fully B tested, lint experienced nnd reliable IE' growers pronounce it the earliest and mB most valuable berrj known. But like BR U very early nineties the above must mm;' have rich soil and clean culture. One I K hundred bushels of cotton seed cr half IE n ton of cotton seed meal, or 230 pounds ' R of nitrate of noda, or 25 good load3 of m stable manure, 300 pounds dissolved bone or acid phosphate nnd 250 pounds B milphate of potash, or ICC bushels unit un-it leached wood ashes per acre, thorough-R thorough-R ly plowed and harrowed in make splenic splen-ic did crops of them on nlmort any soil. I Ripening no enrly and being so firm nnd I highly colored they command very high K prices. O. V Blacknall, in Prairie j I Parmer. |
