126 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



I find many buyers want plants that have started considerable 

 growth as they look so thrifty, but it is a mistake to plant them. If 

 jour plants have a large leaf growth, pinch off all except two or three 

 small leaves before planting. 



I use the matted row, and always make rows four feet apart, 

 plants 18 inches to two feet apart in the row. I have had the Dunlaps, 

 Warfield and Everbearer Progressive fill the rows when planted four 

 feet each way. Be sure you get the strawberry plant just the right 

 depth so that the crown is just even with the top of the ground. 



Never plant berries on new land or an old orchard where white 

 grubs are liable to ruin your plants. A potato field plowed in the fall 

 and then worked up in the spring makes an excellent berry bed. Dun- 

 laps and Bederwood do not require as rich soil as Warfield and Gandy. 



Some people use a dibble, but I think a dibble takes too much 

 time. We take a tiling spade, and one of my boys who has good eyes 

 and knows just where to drop the plant. We can go out this way and 

 plant several hundred in a day. The ground should be raked imme- 

 diately after planting in this way. To plant with the spade sink a 

 narrow spade about eight to ten inches in the ground, push the handle 

 forward, and as the boy drops the plant, just back of the spade at 

 the right depth, remove the spade and press the soil with your foot. 



Most any good ground is good enough, although you can get it 

 much too rich for the most of the varieties, but you can't for Senator 

 Dunlap. Some of the fancy berry growers, that are growing your 

 big berries, I believe Mr. Beaver has grown berries nine inches 

 in circumference. For those he vised to get an old cattle yard and 

 then go off into the timber and get some leaf mold, but left the 

 ground underneath perfectly solid. Then when the spring came he 

 ^\ent to work and gave them liqiud manure almost every day, and 

 those berries were certainly fine. Those things cost him at least a 

 dollar a quart to grow, but he got a nice little bit of advertising out 

 ol it. You never can buy strawberries and have them as nice as when 

 you go out and pick them from your own home patch. 



Here is one of the plants of the Everbearer, the way it turns 

 up this fall. Now on that, there are some fellows who are trying to 

 make you believe you can get rich quick off from it. It is my opinion 

 that you are not going to make a fortune and be able to retire in one 

 year off from the Everbearer. 



Q. Was that plant put out last spring? 



A. Yes sir. 



Q. I would like to ask Mr. Christy if that is the usual custom 

 cf planting strawberries and raspberries with your foot. I have 

 noticed all the feet, and I do not believe there is anybody here has 

 feet big enough for that. (Laughter) 



Mr. Christy: Well, I will tell you; those that have not, can get 

 some of those old German wooden shoes and then you will have a 

 shoe big enough. 



