SETTING OUT STRAWBERRIES. 211 



Question. I have heard some strawberry growers say that 

 liquid manure was the best for strawberries. What is your 

 experience in regard to that ? 



Mr. Moore. Liquid manure is used by exhibitors at horti- 

 cultural exhibitions to some extent, to make large fruit, but it 

 would not be convenient, perhaps, to use it on a large scale. 

 I have used a cord of manure, which cost $20, from the pork 

 slaughtering tanks, — where they steam the heads and waste 

 pieces of the hogs, to get out the grease, — mixed with five cords 

 of beach mud to the acre, and had as good success as I ever 

 had on the light land I was telling about. 



Question. Do you ever use what is called night soil on 

 strawberries ? 



Mr. Moore. I have not, to any extent. I want to use a 

 manure that will be lasting in the outset. I knew that this 

 waste, having a large portion of bone in it, would be lasting. I 

 use stable manure, but I want it decomposed ; because, if you use 

 barnyard manure in anything like a raw state, you are very 

 likely to be troubled with grubs. I do not have any difficulty 

 with grubs, on land that has been planted for some two years 

 before setting out the strawberries. 



Mr. Hyde has referred to the difficulty with the Wilson straw- 

 berry, in consequence of its not running. I do not have any 

 trouble at all. I attribute that to the planting out of the 

 strawberry. The strawberry should be planted as early as you 

 can get your" ground dry enough to plant. Some of my neigh- 

 bors run a furrow along, and set the plants on the side of the 

 furrow. I think that is a poor way. One objection is, that I 

 want my rows straight. If there is anything I pride myself 

 on, it is the straightness of my rows ; nothing would annoy me 

 more than to have crooked ones. Then, again, I can't afford 

 it ; it is not a profitable way of doing the work. I generally 

 run a roller over the field, and lay down a line that will stretch 

 clear across it, and open a furrow with the edge of a spade, 

 four inches deep. I generally cut off the ends of the roots, 

 and then set them against the smooth side of the furrow. I 

 think a good deal of the trouble in raising strawberries comes 

 from bad planting. You will find plenty of farmers, men who 

 are so anxious to get along quick, and to save a little time, 

 that they do it at the expense of a good deal of money in the 



