Strawberries add delight to any garden NEWARK, Del. - There may be snow in the furrows of your backyard garden, but it’s not too early to make plans for raising some of everybody’s favorite fruit - strawberries. This popular small fruit is easy to grow, says University of Delaware Extension garden specialist Dave Tatnall. Strawberries take up little space, thrive with ordinary care, have few 'Serious pest problems, and can produce amazingly big crops - at least a pint from each original plant. They can be eaten right out of the garden, freeze well, and make delicious jam. You can plant strawberries as soon as the ground is easily worked in early Spring. Late March through mid-April is the best time. The best source of strawberry plants is a mail + memo ♦ $ HAY, ♦ 1 STRAW & t ♦ EAR CORN t 2 SALE t i i 0 ♦ EVERY MONDAY AT 11A.M. EVERY WEDNESDAY 12:00 NOON NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES, INC. Phom 717-354-4341 Lloyd H. Kreider, Auct FIRST IN THE AREA Your No. 1 Dealer - Lane. 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Make holes big enough so that the rtibts are not crowded. And be sure the crowns (bases) of the plants are level with the soil sur face. Press the soil firmly aroihid each plant, then give it a pint of water or liquid fertilizer. Don’t get too excited over dreams of lush berries from SEE IT FIRST HERE AT LANCASTER FORD TRACTOR, INC. (THE FRIENDLY STORE THAT GIVES YOU MORE) 1655 Rohrerstown Road Lancaster, PA Flory Mill Exit off Route 283 Phone: 717-569-7063 your garden this Summer, though, cautions Tatnall. You should remove all the flowers this first year (ex cept for everbearers), he explains. This encourages more vigorous plant growth, and will result in greater yield next year. Allow all runners to develop until early Fall. Keep rows about 24 inches wide, with a 24-inch clearance between them. Hoe or hand weed your strawberry plants frequently and thoroughly. Suggested varieties in clude early-bearing “Earliglow,” “Midland” “Fairfax,” and “Redglow;” mid-season “Pocahontas,” “Surecrop,” “Midway,” and “Redchief;” and late bearing “Sparkle/’ “Delite,” “Marlate” and “Redstar.” If you want a crop of berries you can harvest the first year, consider an everbearing variety such as “Ozark Beauty,” or “Ourown.” Or plan an outing to one of the many pick-your-own -strawberry operations. Most of these are -advertized in local papers as the harvest season approaches. With proper care, next Summer your berry patch will be bursting with suc culent red strawberries for your eating pleasure. Finnsheep crosses increase crop NEWARK, Del. -- Research in the North Cen tral states shows market lamb producers can increase profits by using breeds and systems that maximize gains from breed sunerioritv and hybrid vigor of crossbred ewes and lambs, according to Delaware Extension livestock specialist Dr. Richard Fowler. The key to profits is found in the Fin nish Landrace breed of sheep, he says. These are small, white-faced sheep that are below acceptable standards for growth rate, fleece weight, and carcass quality. However, they are 1 very prolific and produce lamb crops of 250 to 450 per cent. The breed has a shorter gestation period than others, and will breed almost any time of the year. What’s more, these sheep transmit the trait of higher fertility to, their crossbred offspring. Fowler advices use of one half Finnsheep crosses with such breeds as Dorset, Suf _ folk, Targhee or RambouiQet Commercial ewes mated with meat breed sires can reduce ewe costs per pound of market lamb by 20 to 25 per cent compared with one half Rambouillet and domestic U.S. breed crossbred ewes. The one-half Finn-cross ewes have earlier sexual maturity and larger numbers of lambs per par turition. Lambs weigh five to six pounds less at 10 weeks -weaning because there are more twins. Post weaning daily gain and carcass yield Uncaster Farming, Satin dav March 31,1979 and grade are slightly lowei at the same slaughter weight compared to Rambouillet cross ewes. Producers should consider one-fourth or one-half FinnJ crossbred ewes in order to increase lambs bom per 100 ewes by 20 or 50 lambs respectively. The one-half Finn-cross has the ad vantage under intensive management conditions. ' Producers should be ready to provide supplemental milk to lambs under these conditions. Harsh manage ment conditions favor the one-fourth Finn ewe, since she may raise as many lambs as the one-half ewe raises and she has a longer productive life. Suffolk, Hampshire, and Oxford sire breeds differ lit Reader’s Corner Now I sit me down in school Where praying is against the rule. For this great nation under God* Finds public mention of Him odd. Any prayer a class recites Now violates the Bill of Rights. Any time my head I bow Becomes a Federal matter now. 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PHONE: 717-272-4658 We Rent Most Everything tie in total pounds of lamb marketed at 22 or 31 weeks of age per 100 lambs bom when lamb mortality is 10 to 20 per cent, says Fowler. However. Sufolks excell when mortal! ty is below this, while Ox fords offer top performance when mortality is above 20 per cent. Hampshire crosses are intermediate in both resnect" Some commercial and purebred breeders may be experiencing 150 to 180 per cent lamb crops, but most producers are far behind this level of performance. For these producers, the specialist says, a one-half Finn-cross ram mated to commercial ewes may be the answer. “Prayer on the Q.T.” Lancaster. inting Time gain! RENTA ROTOTILLER or Your Garden 15
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