16 A B C OF STRAWBERRY CULTURE. 



a g'ven area for all time, and do it successfully. But we will 

 talk more about this plan soon. 



First let us consider the question, How much land shall \ve 

 plant with strawberries? Well, in order that you may have a 

 great abundance, let me advise that you set out two or three 

 square rods for each person in your family. To the farmer a few 

 rods of land, more or less, amounts to nothing ; and when you 

 have the horse hitched to the cultivator you will hardly notice 

 the difference between cultivating a big patch and a little one. 

 I would have one, while I was about it, that amounted to some- 

 thing. The farmer must not expect to grow berries so as to get 

 a full crop. The frost may take half, or the drouth cut the 

 yield short. If the farmer, with such tillage and care as he 

 can probably give, gets from half a bushel to a bushel to the 

 square rod, he may well be satisfied. 



Chas. A. Green, in a late number of the Rural New - York- 

 er, says : "My own family, not a very large one, consumed 

 strawberries for a month, and we have estimated the amount to 

 be over 20 bushels." If you get too many, remember your 

 neighbors, particularly the poor and the sick (remember them 

 any way ; a taste of your choice abundance may encourage 

 them to go and do likewise. One can be a missionary without 

 being a preacher of the gospel ) . For a family of six persons 

 on this plan, you would want 96 rods in the garden (Fig. 1), 

 besides the head lands that you turn your horse on when culti- 

 vating, and the strip marked 5. One half will be occupied by 

 the strawberries all the time, and the other half by your pota- 

 toes, corn, and other garden-truck. If you prefer raising your 

 potatoes in the field, and this would make too much garden, 

 seed down one strip each year and let it lie in grass, or, better, 

 clover, and plow under the entire growth. 



To save time in cultivating I would have this garden long 

 and narrow. One can do the work quicker than where it is 

 square. In the plan given I have figured on having each of 

 the strips, 1, 2, 3, and 4, 24 feet wide, which will give six rows 



