Show TO RENEW strawberry BED plants are rarely profitable for more than one crop turn under some green crop strawberries are rarely profitable for more than one crop if the patch Is to be mow off the old vines after picking Is over and burn them and then plow out the old plants leaving the runners to renew the patch manure or green crops such as soy beans cowpeas or clover should be turned under tinder whenever possible very heavy and frequent Is not desired as it Is not a 4 balanced fertilizer ti being deficient in phosphoric field in conjunction then with 15 to V za tons of barnyard manure per acre beld phosphate should be added at the rate cate ot of to pounds A complete chemical fertilizer Is of value on aboor soil or where an application of manure was not given rhe ahe materials can be purchased separately and mixed at home in the following proportions pounds nitrate of soda and pounds pounds acid phosphate pounds of potash if the patch Is burned over after harvesting the crop every year rotated every two or three years and varieties resistant to leaf spot planted very little trouble from insects or diseases should be experienced |