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Show IRRIGATION OF STRAWBERRIES Where There Is Sufficient Slope to Land Rows Should Be Kept Down to Get Water. A subscriber asks if strawberries which are to be irrigated by furrow irrigation should be planted on raised ridges, and water applied between the rows. We have seen strawberry rows planted in this way, but we believe it is much better to try to keep soil i level, for the plants will work themselves them-selves up on to rows anyway as they become older, says the Fruit C rower. row-er. On land which is nearly level, so that water has scarcely any fall, it might be well to ridge the rows. If there is danger of the water getting up on the berries, but if there Is sufficient suf-ficient slope to permit the water flowing flow-ing freely, we would much prefer keeping the rows down. If there is too much slope to the ground, then of course the rows should be planted with the contour of the hill. On some of the hillsides In the Irrigated districts dis-tricts of the west, strawberry rows are as crooked as can be, but they follow fol-low the contour and Irrigation is much more effective. |