40 PRIZE GARDENING 



I have a hand marker, making three rows at once. I 

 set two of them and use the third for a Hne to mark 

 back on. I use a trowel for setting. I never dig more 

 plants at one time than I can set in half a day, and I 

 keep them well sprinkled and covered with a blanket. 

 This is my method of setting strawberries, and I 

 always have a good stand of plants. In setting them 

 I allow eighteen inches apart in the rows. 



Next I set my early cabbages. Manure heavy and 

 plow deep. Fall plowing I like best. I do not think 

 fall plowing is affected so much by drouth as spring 

 plowing. I like a top dressing. Disk and drag and 

 plank; mark three feet, set eighteen to twenty inches 

 apart in rows. I use the Charleston Wakefield for 

 early. When the plants have been set a week, culti- 

 vate with a fine-tooth cultivator, and then hoe. 



If I am to set any raspberries I pick a piece of 

 light soil with a red clay bottom land that will grow 

 a good crop of corn. Plow deep, drag, plank and 

 mark seven feet one way and four feet the other, then 

 use the cultivator. I take all the shovels off but one 

 large one, furrow one way (deep) and drop the plants 

 in the four-foot mark. One drops the plants and one 

 covers. When I am selecting a quantity of plants I 

 dig the new plants which come up in the spring, put- 

 ting about four of them in one hill. This will give a 

 nice hill of new canes for the next season without wait- 

 ing for shoots to come up from the setting. Having 

 finished setting, I cultivate both ways, then I shall 

 have the furrows filled and the land level. I usually 

 plant two rows of corn between the rows first year. 

 Second year I plant a row of potatoes between. By 

 doing this I keep the bushes well cultivated and grow 

 a nice crop of potatoes. After the second year it is 

 useless to plant anything between them, but keep them 



