22 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Fifth — In moving the plants care must be taken not to mangle and 

 break the roots, nor allow them to become dry or frozen while out of 

 the ground. 



Sixth — In planting, the roots must be spread and placed as near as 

 possible in the way they grew. 



Seventh — Transplant as early in spring as soil is in good condition 

 for cultivation. 



Eighth — Use cultivator, and hoe freely and often. Don't allow a 

 weed to show its head, if possible. 



STRAWBERRIES. 



The land is best to lie nearly level, as hillsides will wash. A clover 

 sod, or old pasture, plowed in the fall and a crop of potatoes grown on 

 it the next season and kept perfectly free from weeds; fall plowed again 

 after potatoes are dug; then disc harrowed thoroughly in s{)ring, just 

 before you are ready to plant. After the disc harrow has done all it 

 can to pulverize the soil, follow it with a good smoothing harrow and 

 roller or planker. This makes about as good a bed for strawberries as 

 anything I have tried. 



vl have raised good crops of strawberries on land that had grown a 

 crop of apple seedlings and grape-vines the previous year, by cultivat- 

 ing with disc and smoothing harrow just before planting them, and 

 making three to four inches of top soil perfectly mellow, — the seedling 

 plow had been run fifteen to sixteen inches deep to take up seedling, 

 and the rows only twenty-eight inches apart. The ground was almost 

 perfectly subsoiled, and it held the moisture better than spring plowing. 

 If your ground needs manure, put well rotted stable manure on 

 your fall j)lowed ground and harrow it in with the disc and smooth- 

 ing harrow, in spring just before planting. When you have got your 

 ground i)erfectly mellow and smooth, you are ready for your marker. 

 I use one made like a hand-sled with three runners placed three feet 

 nine inches apart, marking three rows at a time. Mark your rows as 

 straight as possible, as it is easier to cultivate straight rows than crooked 

 ones. Have your plants trimmed and roots cut back to four or five 

 inches in length, and be sure they are kept out of the sun and wind. 

 Let a boy take a bucket with three to four inches of water in it. Put 

 in as many plants as is convenient. Then a man takes a bright, 

 sharp spade. The man stands on the right-hand side of row, boy on 



