366 State Horticultural Society, 



turned back and the entire middle plowed out, and then worked 

 level with the cultivator. Keep all needless runners cut off, and 

 you will find that it pays well to cultivate after picking the fruit, 

 and not allow the whole plantation to become enveloped in crab 

 grass to take away the moisture which strawberries need so much. 

 If your plantation has just borne its second year's crop, we would 

 put in a big plow and turn the whole under and prepare the land 

 for a later crop, for it is better to plant a bed every year than to try 

 to keep one clean after it has borne two crops. 



We have seen heavy crops of cotton grown in North Carolina 

 after a strawberry plantation was turned under, and further north 

 ihere is the late cabbage crop, celery and other things which can 

 well follow on the strawberry sod. In growing berries for market 

 one should always have one plat coming in with its first crop, one 

 with its second crop and turned under, and another being planted 

 to take the place of the one turned under, and it will always pay to 

 grow potted plants to set the new bed in late summer. — Colman's 

 Rural World. 



DOES MULCHING STRAWBERRIES PAY ? 



In my experience I find that to be sure of even a small patch, 

 one should mulch. Some winters when the snow is deep and last- 

 ing the damage to unmulched plants might not be severe. Last 

 winter unmulched berries were almost a failure. I left a small 

 area unmulched, and by spring nearly all the leaves were dead and 

 the roots badly heaved. They bore a little earlier, but fewer and 

 smaller berries. Clean wheat straw is most satisfactory, and if 

 it is a little old all the better, as it will break up better during the 

 picking season. I tried a little spoiled hay once, thinking the seed 

 too immature to grow, but will never do it again. — S. B. Hartman, 

 Michigan. 



