Alu. -*' P\'0Hi.&bl6 Strawberry ML Leonard OV8rby’   ·
§i$d::%(f3{0gT' A' S' C°1by' Univ"' three w e 1 1 known strawberry
   (xl!.-IBlpIs::rt:ess Meeting. growers; and   D. Armstrong,
W. W, Mmm, COMES of Agricuuurel Experiment Station H0rt1cultur1st.
presiding. Stops were made at (1) the
¤ 1:00 P. M.-~S0me Cultural Require- University of Tennessee Junior
· ments ot the Red Raspberry, Dr. College at Martin (2) R. R_ M0
` C°“"’· Umber r G {na is T
2:00 P. M. — Raspberrles, Boysen- arm: me 8 » en-Uesscer
i berries and Grapes; leader, Prot. and (3) at the Robert Leeper farm,
‘ e;..t..EiL‘:.i:· ‘:E$:“.».E.$?:““ii2;..z‘ Jackson- M ee of these eee
_ R- El MMA, Boyle Couiilty; BOB the McU1nber ’Yellows-free Blake-
· Scott. Kenton County; H. H. Jones, more Va¥`1€tY IS bems grown- A
- Fayette County. stop was also made at the farm of
¥ 3&(1uI;§€hTbT‘?:’;¤3)ty te New in GWP6 Mr. Denton Fly, Milan, Tennessee,
.' . ' n ' where a Yellows-free strain of
Q 3'30 P` M` Adjoummem Blakemores selected out by the
A TENNESSEE STRAWBERRY United States Department of Agri-
,1 TRIP culture is being grown. At each of e
Q Interest in the Blakemore variety '¢h6S6 P1e66S the f0li¤g6 WBS ef 8
c of strawberries has been increasing \1¤if01'H1 dark g1‘6e¤ 60l01‘ 8116. 110
Q- for several years in western Ken- 6Vid6¤66 cf the Y6U0WS disease W88
,· tneky. The 1939 harvest season seen by any member ef the party- .
' served to materially increase this BOU1 first Yee? arid S660¤d Y661‘ V
r. interest due to the greater financial patches were inspected. The high
§`· returns from this variety in com- ${2316 Of Cl1ltlV3tl0H ObS€1‘V€d Bt
` parison to the Aroma variety. 660h of these pl3I1tiHgS Wes of much
This was due chiefly to its earli- i¤t6I‘6St, cmd @116 11¤¤S¤eUY W611 ~
>' ness, its fine shipping quality and de\'€lOp€d I‘OWs of plants were a.
l· heavy yield. Much interest and reveletieh- Oh the rolling lend
_€ concern is also current among berry PYMUCHUY all the 66ldS seen were
e growers in the Yellows disease of terraced With wide broad-base _
the Blakemore veriegy_ terraces and all the rows were on = .
E- The Blakemore variety is the the contour. Many Helds were seen .
c einer variety in the large West where Straw _ hed elreedy beee  
3. Tennessee berry section just south beulee cut m PI`6P&I°aU0¤ fer  
0 of our Kentucky section. A num- mU1€h1¤g· {
’ ber of alert Kentucky strawberry At a stop at the West Tennessee   L
growers expressed their keen inter- Experiment Station at Jackson Mr. § V
est in making an inspection trip L. A. Fister, Horticulturist there,   -
3 through the \Vest Tennessee sec- showed the party over the extensive . A
tion, to study the so-called Yellows· st1·awberry breeding plots and ex- ‘
free Blakemore strains in produc- plained their program of work, and   ;j
pt tion there, and the general berry exhibited the many fine strains of 4; gf ;
Q1 growing practices. Such a trip was strawberries that are developing in   pe - ’
made on November 8, leaving the work there. The only yellows E   f
ri- Paducah at 7 A. M. and returning seen during the day was at the _ 6_·c . .
  to Paducah by 9 P. M., covering a Experiment Station planting there   C
,1f total of 230 miles. where an experimental planting of § ·  
.r, Those making the trip were twenty-five yellows infested mother   YC? 
ri: County Agent, Joe Hurt of Mc- plants had been made along side ;_{_§3_;j.j$
gl Cracken County, Mr. J. T. Warner, twenty—five yellows-free plants. Of     E
" Paducah; Mr. Lester Harris, Kevil; the twenty-ive yellows plants  
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