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Title: Allen's book of berries for 1936
Identifier: allensbookofberr19alle_20 (find matches)
Year: 1936 (1930s)
Authors: Allen Co. (Salisbury, Md. ); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Maryland Salisbury Catalogs; Nursery stock Maryland Salisbury Catalogs; Strawberries Maryland Salisbury Catalogs
Publisher: Salisbury, Md. : Allen Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Section of Our Variety Spacing Experimental Plot for Fruiting in 1936 Visit Our Variety Spacing Experiment at Fruiting Time In May and June 1936 we will be fruiting berries from an experimental plot in spacing Dorsett, Fairfax, Catskill, Blakemore, Big Joe and Premier plants. This is being done in co- operation with the U. S. Department of Agricul- ture and University of Maryland. They will be responsible for taking the records. It is one of the finest experimental plots we have ever seen and we are expecting to get some valuable in- formation from it. We invite you to come and see this plot at fruiting time. You will be wel- come. Best date about May 25th, 1936. Other strawberry spacing experiments con- ducted by Agricultural Experiment Stations, with probable date of ripening, are as follows: Willard, North Carolina... April 25th, 1936 Amherst, Massachusetts... June 10th-15th, 1936 Wooster, Ohio June 10th-15th, 1936 East Lansing, Michigan... June 15th, 1936 Visit some of these if you can. We are sure you will be welcome. Other stations may be doing some spacing work also. We are informed that both Tennessee and Rhode Island have planned some spacing work for 1936-37. What to Expect From Spacing Strawberry Plants For improving both the quantity and the quality of strawberry crops we believe some attention to thinning and spacing the plants offers greater possibilities than any other practice. As stated on page 11 it may not pay to be too fussy about exact distances, but if in the ordinary operations of hoeing it is recognized that all plants in excess of four to six per square foot are weeds which rob the producing part of moisture and fertility a great deal can be done in this respect at not much extra cost. To indicate actual results from spacing plants we are repeating the table from work done in North Carolina in 1933-34 which we used last year. Yield Per cent of in 32-qt. Per cent Relative berries show- System of training crates of U. S. size of ing decay per acre No. 1 berries berries after 24 hours Double hill row with runners rooted early 110 90 100 5 Rows 24 inches wide with plants spaced 9 inches apart 156 84 88 8 Rows 24 inches wide with plants spaced 6 inches apart 149 80 80 10 Matted rows 12 inches w ide 66 68 72 16 Matted rows 30 inches wide 72 57 62 26 Note that yields increase with wider spacing up to 9 inches apart. Xote also the poorer keeping quality of berries from the thick, densely shaded matted rows. In other of the \T. C. experiments rows with plants numbering 30, 4, 1.8 and 2/3 of a plant per square foot produced yields of market- able fruit of 40, 119, 131, and 99 crates per acre respectively. To check this up with our discussion of leaf area on the next page it is pointed out that plants in the row spaced 9 inches apart which produced 156 crates per acre had. in the previous fall, 9 2/10 leaves per plant, while plants in the 30 inch matted row which produced 72 crates per acre had only 3 leaves per plant the previous fall. The benefits from spacing will be much greater with free growing varieties like Dorsett, Fairfax, Blakemore, Narcissa, etc., than from others which normally do not make as many plants. Further- more, with a variety like Dorsett which is very easily over-fertilized greater amounts of fertilizer can be used profitably in building up a few large strong plants which have been rooted early and retained. 14

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