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SM III COASTAL PLAIN STATION By Dr. Chas. Dearing, Asst. Director in Charge responding to the request the Editor of the Wallace erprise for an article relat to the work of the Coastal , in Station, it seems appro bate to refer especially to the Strawberry work, in view of the fact that this article is for a special strawberry festival edition. It is doubtful if many of the strawberry growers of the section have yet learned of the extensive improvements which have been made at the Station during the past year with a special view to improv ing the facilities for strawber ry research work. With the as sistance of the PWA the Sta tion has recently completed a program of improvements es pecially designed to equip it for strawberry activities in connection with the coopera tive research work between the U. S. Department of Agricul ture and the State Department of Agriculture. First, a nice laboratory has been fitted out and attached to this there is a greenhouse 26' x 60’, having two rooms which can be run at different temperatures. This greenhouse is fitted with an automatic oil burning, electrically controls We extend a cordial invitation to the people of Duplin and adjoining Counties to attend the Strawberry Festival WALLACE, N. C.—JUNE 3-7 And plan to buy your GROCERIES, FEEDS, SEEDS, Etc., FROM US Finley Carr Cut-Rate Store WALLACE, N. C. *‘We grow the flowers we sell” “Say it with Flowers” Will Rehder -FLORIST Phone 46 Wilmington, N. C. Mrs. Albert J. Cavenaugh, Agent. WALLACE, N. C. Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllimilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll ed heating system. It will per mit the growing of strawber ry plants in pots during the winter and the doing of cross breeding work at this time ra ther than in the regular bloom ing season. The tedious job of cross breeding can be more conveniently done with potted plants on a greenhouse bench than with plants set in the ground. Moreover, a green house is the best place to ger minate young seedlings, and it also affords a place where seedlings can be tested to de termine their relation to length of daylight. It has been clearly proven that the behavior of strawber ry varieties in a section re lates more directly to the length of day in that section than to almost any other fac tor. For example, neither the Aroma strawberry, which is the leading variety in Missou ri and Illinois, nor the Premier which is the leading strawber ry in Delaware, succeed here.. Because of our shorter length ( day these varieties will not develop the runners which they need to reproduce themselves and the growth is entirely un satisfactory, whereas varieties like the Missionary, Klondike and Blakemore responding to the length of day which we have here and, making their growth in the shorter days are varieties which are successful with us. With arc lights it will be possible to test special seedlings and determine just what their nature of adaptabi lity in the country will be; that is, whether or not they will be likely to succeed in the North or in the South. The Station has just com pleted a dripless lath shade house which will be most use ful in the handling of straw berry seedlings produced in the greenhouse and to be tak en to the field for testing. By first taking these seedlings to the shade house to be harden ed off it will be possible to make more of them live when they are planted in the field. This shade house Will also foe a great asset to the Station in other ways it will afford an ideal place for the conduct of various kinds of propagation work, especially with orna mentals. In addition to these improve ments, the Station has also put in during the past year an ex pensive irrigation system which will permit us to conduct ex j periments with irrigation, a subject on which there is prac tically no information directly I related to conditions in the , southeastern states. Practical ly all experimental research in ! irrigation has been done in the more airid regions of the West. Not only will we study the general principals of irri gation on strawberries. Some of the problems which we want information on are (1) the val ue of irrigation as a means of preventing frost injury in the spring, (2) the value of irri Attend the Festival Well Pressed Have Your Clothes CLEANED and PRESSED MALLARD'S CLOTHES WORKS School M arm Wins | I DALLAS . . . Mis* Margaret Spencer, 37, Ugh school teacher here, is home again with $10,ti00 in Uncle Sam’s baby bonds which she pur* chased with money awarded her in a national radio essay contest. Mrs. Roosevelt made the award at Wash* ington for the sponsors of the contest ---1 gation in preventing the plants from dying out during droughts of the fruiting sea son such as we had last year, (3) the value of irrigation in prolonging the fruiting season or hastening the production of runners, and (4) finally the t value of irrigation in stimulat ing plant groth in the autumn. At the present time most plant ings of strawberries are made in the spring and there is an extensive hoeing operation to | keep down grass during the summer. It is possible that by the use of irrigation this planting can be delayed until after the grass growing sea son and still get sufficient plant growth. These added facilities will be very helpful indeed and should permit the Station to develop new information for the benefit of the strawberry growing industry in this sec tion. The Station is continuing to grow a large quantity of straw berry seedlings for the pur pose of developing new and better varieties. Approximate ly five years ago the Blakemore strawberry was introduced and has become one of the leading strawberry varieties of the United States. In our imme diate section for three years is has brought better prices on the cash auction market than either Klondike or Missionary and because of better carrying qualities of the variety it has sold for better prices in the North. Since introducing the Blakemore the Bellmar has been introduced as an associ ate variety coming a little lat er in season, and the Southland is a very dessert variety for home gardens and local mar I ket. The Southland will not j ship to northern markets, be | ing too soft. More recently j the Fairfax and Dorsett vari eties were introduced. These, however, are more successful in the Maryland-Delaware belt than here. However, during the past season several grow ers have had considerable suc cess with the Fairfax. The trouble with this variety is that it does not produce abun dantly enough, at least unless it is very heavily fertilized. The berries are large and the flavor exceedingly rich and free from acidity, but, like the Missionary, the berries tend to turn dark very soon after pick ing and moreover the variety is not so early as the Blakemore. It is the early varieties which under normal conditions get the better prices. The present season was an especially fav orable one for the Fairfax and it is doubtful if growers will have as good success with it next year as they did this. This (Continued on Page Seven) HAWK HOODIE $mt 6ROMN0S ROWS FINE-1 HE SAYS IT DOESA HALF HOUR INJONETEEN _MINUTES FLAT. 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