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with pulverizer should be run as near the plants as possible to loosen 

 up the soil to prevent evaporation from the surface. Cultivate 

 after every rain to keep the best soil conditions. As the runners 

 begin to grow the cultivator is closed up and the outside pulverizers 

 taken off. 



As fast as the blossoms appear they should be pinched off, and 

 the young runners will then soon start to grow. The propagating 

 beds should be laid out both ways, so as to do as much cross- 

 cultivating as possible early in the season, to get the soil in a mellow 



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condition to receive the young plants, as the cultivator will be found 

 to leave the soil in better shape to receive the young layers than a 

 crew of men with hoes. 



Layer the first runners by hand, filling up the rows as evenly as 

 possible and still not getting the plants too close. The quicker a 

 young runner takes root, the quicker a new one will appear. 



Plants must be kept growing and not allowed to crowd one 

 another if the best development is expected. It is a good plan to 

 clip the last runners that appear late in the fall to allow those 

 already set to have all the strength and become better plants. 



