Show SUMMER CARE FOR STRAWBERRY PLANT Frequent Cultivation Necessary If Soil Is to Be Maintained in Good Condition During hot weathEr frequent cultivation cultivation needs to be given the strawberry strawberry strawberry straw straw- berry field if the soil soH is to be maintained maintained main main- in good condition A dust mulch will greatly help to keep leep the soil moist The use of the cultivator or hoe every few days during the hot weather will do fro much to keep the soil moist under under- neath The surface must never be allowed allowed allowed al al- lowed to cake Former Dean L L. H H. Bailey Bulley of the New York state college of agriculture speaks literally when he says Water Vater your garden with your hoe If barn barnyard ard fertilizer is not available available avail avail- able a n good substitute can be had in inthe inthe inthe the pulverized sheep manure obtained from the stock yards ar s. s The use of nU nit of soda must be done with great greaf care A hundred pounds to the acre just justus justas us ns growth starts In the spring and a af Ii second application of f the same amount just as the buds are ready leady to burst Into In to bloom bloomIn will In dos odou do a. a great deal of good But it Is not advised n-d- n to use nitrate o on soda in nn any other way cay or at any other time as it tt is expensive Take Tahe an all old olet pair of gloves and scatter the tIle soda b by hand hund being b careful not to let any of the nitrate touch the plants them selves Nitrates are very hot and win vin iIi and an destroy estl y plant life |