CHAPTER III 

 Marking and Planting 



There are many systems or methods of 

 marking out a strawberry bed. Much de- 

 pends on the system of planting which is 

 to be followed. If the plants are to be set in 

 rows four or five feet apart, it will be neces- 

 sary to have some form of marker that will 

 mark four or more rows at a time. One of 

 the best is that made of a piece of two by 

 three scantling, at least seventeen feet long. 

 For marking rows four feet apart, set in the 

 scantling every four feet, either short pieces 

 of a broom handle one and one half feet 

 long, or iron rods, with some arrangements 

 as to shafts if it is to be used for horsepower, 

 or two short shafts if it is to be run by man 

 power. 



At the ends, or near the ends, a short piece 

 of wood (it might be well to allow the out- 

 side broom handles to extend above as well 

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