Show bladel strawberry bed the last week in november 1896 1 planted what I 1 call a model strawberry bed writes F W corliss to in strawberry the ground was wa carefully plowed in october ti turning in ID two loads of well rotted stable manure then left to remain a month then harrowed down smooth when two more loads ot of well pulverized manure wert were carefully scattered over it and well plowed in I 1 then harrowed it down smooth and firm and marked off my rows tor for planting tour four feet ap apart art instead ot of cutting with my plow I 1 threw two furrows together forming a ridge sixteen inches wide I 1 raked these ridges with a steel garden rake until they were as axis and I 1 nellow mellow at ai ashes then taking a garden hoe I 1 cut a drill three inches deep in t the he center of each ridge and filled nearly full with pulverized manure and wood ashes aches then scattering a little fine mold over this forming a center ridge which I 1 converted into little cones with naked hands making a perfect bed for the roots of the plants my afy rows were four feet apart and I 1 set my pla plants ats twelve inches apart in the row this spring I 1 plowed small furrows to the rows thus giving each row a bed thirty inches wide mide and today oday fauly july ast 1st these thirty ainali beds are nearly covered with new and nicely growing groining plants plaits As aa fast is as alipy reach the proper limit 24 inches 1 I 1 rut cut abe hie r a back with a sharp ho hoe it I 1 could not be any pret prettier 10 remarked a gintle gentleman man while looking at t ill I 1 this I 1 a week aid and he knew where I 1 he I 1 P P pa 44 having ving ben bean born and reared on olt tae be eastern shore one of the finest truckling truc klint belts belta on bartl the size of my bed from the center of the turro furrow they call them water furrows liere here Is 1 HO feet beet by 20 feet and the bed propel is 16 feet by feet |