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Show FALL SET STRAWBERRIES ARE MOST EXCELLENT Well Cared for Bed Will Produce Better Berries and Fully as Many as Spring Sets Extra Care Doubles Yield. f r j m&& A ..- v- s A A Fall Runner Set In a Box. This plan of setting strawberries is better than spring planting. Want of time and uncertainty of the season Causes neglect in the work, while in the fall one has ample time. The vexation of caring for the runners and the weeda is avoided, writes J. H. Haynes in Farm and Home. We do not intend this for the commercial com-mercial planting of arge areas, but for the farm home garden. A bed well cared for will produce better berries and fully as many as spring set beds of same size. With extra care they will double the yield of spring settings. set-tings. We select our ground and get it in the best possible condition for planting, plant-ing, also we care for the new plants intended in-tended for transplanting. As soon as Eavorable weather conditions in August Au-gust or early September we begin the transplanting. The plants should be set one foot apart in rows three feet apart. Runners, Run-ners, if any start, should be taken off If you want extra large crowns and berries. Sometimes we allow three oi four runners to set, distributing them equally in the spaces so as to make a uniform bed. All weeds are kept out and the soil loose. By late fall the plants will show enormous fruiting crowns and attain a large size. Such beds do not requre much winter win-ter protection because of the rank foliage they carry. But one can give the bed a small coat of straw, but care must be taken to remove the straw in early spring. The picture is of a pot-grown plant set last fall. Its fruiting and foliage, when so small a space as four inches square of soil is considered, is remarkable. re-markable. Bubach, Dunlap and Monitor Moni-tor are ideal varieties for fall planting. Bubach makes few runners; the fruit is very large and quality best. A Bubach Bu-bach plant treated as described will make a growth that a bushel basket will scarcely cover. Monitor is a wonderful won-derful producer of fine, medium-sized berries of fine quality. They thrive on almost any soil. |