CULTIVATION. 



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The plants are set one foot from each other in Une, and not 

 allowed to make runners. In good soil, they will touch 

 each other after one year's growth, and make a continuous 

 bushy row. The spaces between the rows may be two and 



Narrow Row and Hill Systems. 



a half to three feet. Through these spaces the cultivator 

 can be run as often as you please, and the ground can be 

 thus kept clean, mellow, and moist. The soil can be worked 

 — not deeply, of course — within an inch or two of the 

 plants, and thus but little space is left for hand-weeding. 

 I have found this latter task best accomplished by a simple 

 tool made of a fork-tine, with a section of the top left at- 

 tached, thus : Tf- O^^ broken forks can thus be utilized. 

 This tool can be thrust deeply between the plants without 

 disturbing many roots, and the most sf'ibborn xyeed can be 



