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Show Mulching Briers Helps Fertility and Moisture Fertility and plenty of moisture through the growing and fruiting seasons sea-sons are the two chief requirements to successful berry culture, and all tliis is easily supplied In the winter mulch. The straw or stalk mulch absorbs ab-sorbs all the moisture from the melting melt-ing snows, gleet, and winter rains, and allows it to seep gradually down Into the vast storage basins of the subsoil. The decaying mulch keeps down the weeds and supplies an ever Increasing Increas-ing amount of fertility to the briers throughout tlve summer months. |