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of strawberries on a piece. I would have strip 5, say 64 feet 

 wide, which would give room for eight rows of grapes, rasp- 

 berries, currants, etc., which I would put 8 feet apart. For a 

 medium-sized family this would require a strip of land about 

 10 rods long, containing something over an acre. You will no- 

 tice the head lands in this plan. In a fenced garden these are 

 necessary for convenience and fast work. This is the small 

 fruit and vegetable garden. I would not have a tree in or near 

 it. Both are good things, but they do not go well together. 



Now about the rotation in this plan. You can raise vege- 

 tables and strawberries for many years in the same ground, 

 without seeding down. It will take lots of manure, but it can 

 be done. It is not, however, the wisest plan. Nature teaches 

 us the wisdom of rotation, and the farmer always has use for 

 every load of manure he can get, and he should manage his ro- 

 tations so as to bring in a renovating crop often, to save manure. 

 Now, I would plow under the vines in plot 1, for example, just 

 as soon as the last berries were picked, and sow clover and 

 timothy seed on the strip, rolling it in. By the time it needs 

 plowing for garden-stuff the next spring there should be a 

 heavy sod, which would lighten up a heavy soil, and increase 

 the fertility considerably, or, in other words, diminish the quan- 

 tity of manure required. Then, as soon as the garden truck is 

 off from 2, the first year I would also seed that and let the 

 grass grow until ready to set out the strawberries. The vegeta- 

 bles that could be gotten off the earliest should be planted on 

 this strip, then it could be seeded in 'time to make a heavy 

 growth on rich land. With a very little trouble, in this way I 

 would keep my land mellow, and in good heart, without using 

 nearly as much manure. 



I would put on the vegetable -ground what manure was 

 used, except, perhaps, some for mulching the strawberries. 

 There will be enough left in the soil for the strawberries, and 

 you can take care of grass and weeds, coming from seeds in 

 the manure, among the vegetables better than among strawber- 



