Show strawberries ON OLD LAND white grub grubs j boll of thi this nature may be killed out by winter weather good ca care pa pays alz ilz on many farms it if a strawberry plantation la is to be had it must bo be from an old meadow if it this Is s the case the fall ie is a rood good time to are pare such a place A fow few years ago I 1 followed out thia this plan and bad had ex cellena results saya says a writer riter la in an exchange I 1 plowed the land juat just before cold weather set act in it might have been better still to plow earlier in the acason and after a good rain and eon so to sweet corn earn for forage later on an then in the tall fall and allow the land to be rough all winter inter if ahr eoll soil was uns heavy in the early spring I 1 plowed and disked again and d a crop that thelt needs cultivation so that by setting time tn in the following spring tho the 4 A 0 avi ax 4 t ar N av X ak 4 01 X W 40 V Y t 4 LA wide hedgerow system strawberry ants could be safely set out this cannot be done for good results before because of the quantities of white stubs grubs found in a soil boll of this nature most of these grubs were Ids las troyed by the winter araj the tile following cultivated crop and the soil wa left in ideal condition for straw bernd bern 3 go so good was it that the first and second crops bandied handled with a little care and att attention antion gave me a good price for the labor spent in this long preparation of the soil 11 |