Show PIAXT STRAWBERRIES VIERRIES With their price list George J Kellogg Sons Janesville Wis send the follow tog concerning planting strawberries Spring planting of strawberries is best one plant set in spring is worth a dozen set later Farmers should plant rows twenty rods long one row perfects one row pistillates keep a r cord of the kinds and you can grow your own plants set two rows every spring take care of them the first season dont go to an old mixed bed for plants you may get all pistillates bed white with bloom and no fruit fruitWith With any and all of these kinds setting two rows perfects two or four rows pis tillate side by side on good land that has been hoed the two years previous planted in April properly cared for till SEptember mulched in November with marsh hay just so you cant see the plants half the mulch raked between the rows in May they should yield two hundred hun-dred bushels per acres often more Jn the selection of strawberry ground avoid meadow sod on account of the white grub potato ground Is best rich enough to produce one hundred bushels corn per acre plow deeply manure on top with wellrotted manure and drag it thoroughly Plants should be set so the crown will be even with the surface of the ground havo the roots cut back to four or five inches spread them out in the hole make the ground firm about them Set two rows perfects and two rows pis tillate or one each side by side or set one plant perfect and one plant pistillate alternating in each rowif only one row they must alternate all pistillates would produce no fruit but properly mixed they produce double the fruit of perfect kinds Hoe and cultivate every week if you want the best results Pick off all blossom stems as they appear the season of planting Fence out the chickens and pigs Cover the runners at the joint with a little earth and train the rows two feet wide of matted plants four inches apart The ground should bo ready before plants are received Open th bundles dip them in water heel in or set Immed iately without exposure to the sun and wind I the ground is dry Invert a spade of earth where each plant is set In field planting use a horse marker for garden use a line tread it down then remove di Jhfgerli and avoid crooked rows and the line is out of the way While these notes are practically for amateurs there are many good points we have learned from ten years exuer ea1 eXIer fence and they may he profitable to others one man does not know it all I al there is no one kind of strawberry that Rill do well everywhere no variety does a well as the Wilson did thirtyfive years ago kinds will run out try some of the new and hold fast those that do well on your soil never take plants from a bear I ing bed always keep a new bed for I plants In planting dont keep out Crescent Cres-cent Enhance lifhpse Gandy Greenville Haverland Leader Splendid Saunders Van Deman Warfield Woolverton and many of the new varieties of wonderful promise study the lst Dont plant and then neglect dont let the chickens or stock spoil the garden dont neglect to I put down the first runners they make the best plants and escape the drouth dont stop till you grow five bushels of straw berries to the square rod in one staw |