Show OLD STRAWBERRY BEDS How Hov They Should Be Treated and When Overrun and Choked Wi With tb Weeds DY C II DRAKE We Vo hoe have to light fIght time lIll weeds In Ill strawberry w erry beds Tile Th hinder much I less In nl at season of oC II Tn rainfall than In tl IL dry In one oni amid do minI ago age when fertility Is 15 lucking In So u if IC one nu to prolong the ness of oC the old beti It I i mu lie he lone dune it Is not too old or 01 has imas not nol become thickly II over ire ho grass is 18 the tho worst ellem of the ItS the years Rd for or tile the roots skI complete lon lonor or of the soil soli Other OilIer weed OS etc bo be bite o II coped with flather titan than do without nn any o of this delicIous fruit next veal tIle the old bed had better belloI lw be l unless It is he yond alt all hope or of production If H It Is not ot closely mown after fruiting let thIS thISbe thisbe be done right avay drying slinking the weeds weed gra grass II ete It Itilia ilia be bc OCl hut bitt If the barn tills is iM It Il It is a good to as much or of the tho old tops top as possible in iii order to lIOW imOs growth After raking It be scarified with witha a harrow quite thorough Titis will break the letting In all air openIng or the strength or of a mu nuro top dressing to outer ow let lel un lilt een coat of oC manure be thick to fertilize without shutting out the theair fill air on will fertilIze the ground so thai thal much lur larger el crowns will he be b by the than would bo be without It rhe crown of 01 the plant Is hut II a sLot age of with Rh which the tie plant push tile tho next uC of fruit How can cun the thc plAnts grow ooIJ crowns with only an overdrawn supply of oC fertIlizer c beneath Tue top dr dressing ln will seite Berye aiso to protect tIme IS during tile the winter Thus Thull OliO Olin lot of IL a much larger crop 1011 or of next year thun If IC the bed be were plowed up and reset In Au August ut o 0 S Ot Of course Ir if tile the hn 0 been heen set et too IonS bug so th L ii be beI I I did p poorly olly this eur not nm h berrIes cart an be expected next year even with tho treatment recommended mended For Jor tile the hed bed to be set next spring it Il itIs Is 11 to legIll now how or orits its soon ns as land slId are avaIl avaIlable able uble If IC time tho piece picco Is now not In sod sad Limo tho sooner manure Is applied tIm tho better belter It vill tend to rot the sod and help It Its Ii iter afler fall Call plowing The Tho pile 1110 or of coarse thal outside Ito tho stable door mu nay be even spread on time mind and the tho ruins rains will help It tu to tIme lund land lundI Plowing not he be deep else lIR the I manure and sward IlI he be placed too heel III am the to I Let the land be harrowed down soon after then It I Is read ready for Cor a COat or of mutes as they amity be spared Bettel Betha e n a rew fest or of than hail heave of oC tile the all on the lie It pays I to give this fruit IL ii good chance ns as It ItI I nut maL only enriches the tor or several I weeks when otiler fruits are arc scarce hill i ii I read lit at good For this on on putter r I a cry er small bed which would but sparingly th tile table able and afford I nono Co for l th time market |