Dear Sir: Have you any experience in covering strawberries during winter with sorghum bagasse as winter protection? Or have you any letters from correspondents who have used it for this purpose ? There is a large quantity of it here (in a heap) one and two years old, and I had thought of procuring it for this purpose, and spread it out into small heaps this spring, and turning it over once or twice during the summer to have it all exposed to the rains and action of the weather before putting it on the plants in December. It would not do, in my opinion, to put it on more than half an inch deep, as one inch would surely smother the plants. We can not use straw or fodder or stalks here as a covering on account of the field-mice working under them; but they rarely work under the bagasse. I have never found anything that would retain moisture like it; hence, if it is not injurious, it would be just the thing as a summer mulch. In the spring it could be moved from off the crown just as straw is done.

What think you ?

Yours, etc., Jno. H. Jenkins. [We have witnessed the use of bagasse during the past two years on strawberries and among raspberries, etc. It packs very closely and retains moisture, and unless put on too thick answers well. There is an acid in it, but unless, as above said, it is spread thick, we can see no injury from its use. We should not advise its application until just before the strawberries commence to ripen, and then we would remove it early in September, and replace after the ground was thoroughly frozen, again removing it in spring from the opening thereof, until near fruiting time.]