12 A B C OF STRAWBERRY CULTURE. 



Now, a table bountifully supplied with this health-giving 

 luxury for at least three weeks every season, and a few bushels 

 canned for winter, is what every one of us farmers ought to 

 have. We work hard, and we deserve it. Our families work 

 hard, and we owe them this enjoyment. Now, we can do this 

 thing if we will. Turn over, and read just how to do it. 



CHAPTER III. 



LOCATION CHICKEN QUESTION THE HOME ACRE HOW 

 MANY SHALL WE SET OUT? LONG ROWS AND CHEAP 

 CULTIVATION ROTATION MANURING PREPARING THE 

 GROUND WHEN TO SET OUT A PICTURE FROM LIFE. 



When selecting a place for the strawberries, one of the 

 first things to be considered is the chicken question. Most 

 farmers keep chickens. Chickens like strawberries. Now, 

 shall the berries be put inside the picket fence along with the 

 garden ? Well, you can do that way or you can inclose a yard 

 to keep the poultry in when they would be doing damage at 

 large. The latter way would suit me best. However, we do 

 not keep any hens. They would have to be shut up about all 

 the season, or they would do altogether too much damage on 

 our little farm. We have tried it.* I know that a fenced gar- 

 den is not a place that an ordinary farmer likes to get in to 

 work ; and, besides, garden crops and strawberries do best (the 



* There is a way of getting along with chickens, without having ei- 

 ther the garden or the chickens fenced ; and this is. the way we manage : 

 We have about ten acres of ground devoted to market-gardening ; and as 

 soon as our men start out with the plow or cultivator, a great drove of 

 ch ckens is sure to follow ; and that is just what I want. Why, my old 

 hens will oegin to sing just as soon as they see the cultivator or plow start 

 from the tool-house. Now about the berries or tomatoes, etc.: Just as soon 

 as the hens commence meddling with the strawberries we give them all 

 the shelled corn they will eat. In fact, I empty a two-bushel bag into a 



