New Twice-Bearing French Strawberry "Mammoth Perpetual." For Description, see "Johnson & Stokes' Garden and Farm Manual."
As soon as the crop is off, the bed should be plowed, turning strawberries and litter under, and sweet corn or other quick crop at once planted. This will insure the gathering of two crops in two years; otherwise a strawberry crop means a two-years' use of the soil.
The setting out of a new strawberry bed every spring is good practice; and it is altogether advisable for farmers to occasionally introduce new varieties of strawberries on their farms, to replace old or enfeebled sorts.
The profits of strawberry culture are quite large, the gross receipts not infrequently running to $250 per acre. New boxes and crates are advisable, and are distinctly profitable.
INDEX.
| PAGE. | |
| Asparagus | [27] |
| Bacteria | [15], [19] |
| Barnyard manure | [10] |
| Beans | [33] |
| Bedding plants | [119] |
| Beets | [39] |
| Bordeaux mixture | [63] |
| Borecole | [91] |
| Cabbage | [42] |
| Cantaloupe | [97] |
| Carrot | [49] |
| Celery | [75] |
| Citron | [97] |
| Cold frame | [120] |
| Crimson clover | [20] |
| Corn worm | [55] |
| Corrosive sublimate | [64] |
| Cucumber | [85] |
| Egg plant | [88] |
| Glass | [119] |
| Green manuring | [19], [21], [22] |
| Horseradish | [56] |
| Hot bed | [119] |
| Humus | [14] |
| Irrigation | [17], [18], [62], [125] |
| Kale | [91] |
| Kerosene emulsion | [97] |
| Legumes | [19] |
| Lettuce | [92] |
| Lime | [9] |
| Location, choice of | [24] |
| Marketing | [24] |
| Manure, storage | [11] |
| Manure, value of | [13], [19] |
| Melon louse | [97] |
| Melons | [94] |
| Mushrooms | [99] |
| Muskmelons | [97] |
| Onions | [101] |
| Oyster plant | [58] |
| Parsnip | [57] |
| Peas | [108] |
| Potato | [59] |
| Potato blight | [63] |
| Potato scab | [63] |
| Potato rot | [63] |
| Preservatives of manure | [12] |
| Pumpkin | [65] |
| Radish | [110] |
| Rhubarb | [110] |
| Ruta baga | [72] |
| Salsify | [58] |
| Salt | [31] |
| Sashes | [119] |
| Soil inoculation | [36] |
| Spinach | [112] |
| Squash | [65] |
| Strawberry | [121] |
| Swedes | [72] |
| Sweet potato | [114] |
| Tomatoes | [66] |
| Turnip | [71] |
| Waste products | [17] |
| Water cress | [84] |
| Whale-oil soap | [97] |
| Wood ashes | [17] |