20 MODERN STRAWBERRY GROWING 



as below) should extend above the scantling 

 to serve as handles by which the marker 

 is kept in place. This machine can be run 

 by three men or one horse and two men — 

 one man, or the horse, to draw it, one man 

 to keep one of the outside markers In the 

 line just previously made, and the other 

 man to drive and keep the machine running 

 parallel to the preceding lines. In starting 

 this machine It Is best to begin on one side 

 of the bed, preferably the straighter, if 

 necessary laying out by line or with stakes 

 the first row; then, as the outside marker 

 always coincides with the previous row, It 

 is quite easy to keep each row straight and, 

 of course, the required distance apart. 



Some growers prefer chains Instead of 

 wood or iron bar markers. They are put 

 on the scantling in place of the broom handles 

 the required distances apart, in order to 

 mark the rows as wanted. The chief objec- 

 tion to chains Is the fact that they sometimes 

 do not mark the rows an equal distance apart, 

 owing to their being dislodged or thrown 

 out of place by obstructions In the soil. 



Sometimes the common garden line is 

 used very successfully, especially If the oper- 



