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constantly for strawberries exclusively, or almost so. Mean- 

 time, however, he is pretty well convinced that some other crop 

 should be put on before planting again for strawberries ; ana, 

 by the way, you can get a good crop of cabbage, wax beans, 

 early sweet corn, and ever so many other things, after turning 

 under your strawberries. You may remember that, last season, 

 I got a splendid crop of Freeman potatoes after the strawber- 

 ries were all picked. 



DAN WHITE'S MODEI, PATCH OF GANDY STRAWBERRIES. 

 From Gleanings in Bee Culture, Oct. 75, 1895. 



I reached New London after 9 o'clock at night ; but as tke 

 rain had spoiled the wheeling I got up at five o'clock next 

 morning and found the way over to our friend Dan White's just 

 as the hired man was getting out of the back door. As soon as 

 Mr. White was informed that A. I. Root was on the premises 

 he hustled on his clothing quickly, making some apologies for 

 getting up so late on a rainy morning. After we had shaken 

 hands and talked over matters a little he commenced : 



"O Mr. Root! You are just in time to see the neatest 

 thing in the way of a strawberry -patch there is out. Just come 

 this way." 



Mr. White marks out his ground in the spring of the year 

 so as to put the rows 4 feet apart ; then the plants are carefully 

 set 18 inches apart in the row. As soon as they send out run- 

 ners, one new plant is made to grow half way between the orig- 

 inal plants. That leaves them 9 inches from center to center. 



DAN WHITE'S SYSTEM OF GROWING STRAWBERRIES. 



get out the weeds, then let the whole p 1 antation have pretty much its own 

 way. Run the cultivator, of course, and do as much hand-weeding as you 

 can afford to do, more or less ; then the third summer you will have an 

 immense crop of berries as before ; but a great many of them will proba- 

 bly be small, because the beds are too much crowded. Pick as long as it 

 pays to bother with them, then get them under the sod, and have your 

 field clean and lovely once more. 



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