88 ANNUAL REPORT 



Yernon or Kirkwood, Kentucky, Warren, Miner's Great Prolific 

 and Gleudale. 



I might add many more but we are looking for something that 

 shall supercede such poor kinds as the Wilson and small ones like 

 Sharpless. 



SOIL AND LOCATION. 



Any soil from clean sand to heavy clay; make it a little too rich 

 for corn; any location where water will not stand, but the best 

 location is near some city where your berries will always bring 25 

 cents per quart. 



There is one market that you can all have that will pay you 

 even better than this: that is the "home" market. One pint each 

 to each member of your family, three times a day, for thirty days, 

 and thirty-two quarts to each person, canned for winter use. 



In setting a small bed or a large plantation, get your plants as 

 near home as you can, provided they are pure and good; never set 

 an old plant as a gift; never dig from a bed where the kinds are 

 mixed or run out. Set three to five rows of hermaphrodite or 

 perfect flowering kinds to the same number of pistillate varie- 

 ties, Never set these last kinds alone. 



Distance apart, if to propagate plants 4 ft. x 4; if for matted 

 rows 4 ft, X 1 or 2 ft., if the " hill row " system 2i x 1 ft. In all 

 eases it is best to pinch out the fruit stalks as fast as they appear 

 the first season — although I have grown fruit enough the year of 

 planting to pay cost of plants and tending — it so weakens the 

 plants it is best to take them out. Set your plants level with the 

 surrounding ground, putting the roots down in as near natural 

 position as you can. Let^no manure come in contact with the roots. 

 I have known bone meal used as a puddle to kill the plants; press 

 the earth firmly about the plants, mulch immediately to protect 

 from frost, sun and wind, putting it about and over the plants. 

 Start the cultivator, made up of one-half inch steel teeth one week 

 after planting, hoe light and hoe and cultivate every week till 

 frosts in the fall stop the baking of the soil and the growth of 

 weeds; in matted rows cover lightly the joints and so place them 

 that they shall be six inches apart; after the ground is half covered, 

 pinch off all other runners. 



In the "hill row" system pinch off all runners except to fill 

 vacancies. 



WINTER PROTECTION. 



As soon as the ground is frozen cover the plants and spaces 



