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of strawberry plants have been spoiled by the excessive use of 

 wood ashes. Tf the ground is sour you can't do better than use 

 wood ashes. If you know that land is acid and sour use wood 

 ashes, if it is alkaline never put wood ashes on. 



Ques. How many berries do you get from an acre or an acre 

 and a half? 



Ans. I regret to say T have never made a correct estimate of 

 an acre. In the first place we have a big family and during 

 strawberry time we almost live on strawberries and make sales 

 of four, five or six thousand quarts to an acre. I have heard 

 people say they have raised eight, nine or ten thousand quarts to 

 the acre, four thousand quarts would be about the average. I 

 have produced a quart, or one and a half pounds from a single 

 plant. 



Ques. Explain about the transplanter. Will the soil always 

 ciing ? 



Ans. It will not always do so. Usually it will. We gener- 

 ally transplant immediately after a rain. I have gone along with 

 a watering pot and watered the soil around the plant. It would 

 not do on a large scale. If a farmer has got a back yard and 

 wants to do something to make a little money he can water those 

 plants and dig them up and transplant them, but it would not pay 

 on a large scale. Perhaps it would not pay to buy this trans- 

 planter. 



The top as well as the bottom of this transplanter is open 

 and you put it right down over the plant, force it right down 

 clear to the ground. Then you have a little plant standing up 

 in the middle of this can. Take the bail in your hand and if the 

 ground is moist enough the plant will stand right in the centre 

 of a little bail of dirt. I use the transplanter made by F. 

 Richards, Keeport, R. I. It does not cost much for the whole 

 outfit of a dozen. One hundred would be all even a large 

 grower would need on a large scale. He would put them down 

 over a plant and stam.p on them then a man would follow behind 

 vvith a wheelbarrow and pull it up and put it on the wheelbarrow 

 and push it out. It is better than potted plants. With the little 

 instrument I speak of there is no danger of their ever getting pot 

 bound. 



