THE IRRIGAIION AGE. 



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IRRIGATING A STRAWBERRY BED. 



BY 



MBS. COBO B. HILLMAN, Richland Centre, Wis. 

 Last spring, having received R. M. 

 Kellogg's book, "Great Crops of Straw- 

 berries and How to Grow Them," I be- 

 came interested in having a strawberry 

 bed upon our lot, and caring for it myself, 

 as I love to be out of doors, fussing with 

 my bees, flowers and chickens. Isentlo 

 Mr. Kellogg for plants and took great 

 pleasure in watching them grow. ^ After 



MRS. CORO B. lltLLMAN. 



every shower I cultivated the ground be- 

 tween the rows and around the plants. 

 About the first of July the weather be- 

 came very dry; I tried the dust mulch, 

 and presume that night do for a little 

 while, but think if I had not used water 

 ia such a long, continued drouth as we 



had last summer, my plants would have 

 been numbered with the dead, very much 

 to my regret. My husband would take 

 his s^and every night after supper, with 

 hose in hand, and for nearly two hours 

 keep the water going upon lawn, flowers 

 and strawberries. He did not wet the 

 strawberries every night, as we knew that 

 would not be best, but his patience with 

 the hose worked wonders in our yard, so 

 it was a beauty spot, refreshing to look 

 upon, when so many places about were 

 brown and bare of vegetation. 



This season we will make a long board 

 trough, and place it upon the highest side 

 of the bed, the hydrant being at one cor- 

 ner of the bed, and that, at the highest 

 corner, the water can be let into the trough; 



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(H) Hydrant. (T) Trough. (D) Ditch. 

 (B) Hlant Bed. 



flowing along, and out, at the little pipes 

 into the ditches between the rows of plants 



