44 MODERN STRAWBERRY GROWING 



solved, during the night, which would result 

 in leaf injury, called burning. A little time 

 spent lightly brushing the leaves in the rows 

 after the application of fertilizer may save 

 many dollars for the grower. 



There are many ways by which artificial 

 fertilizer may be applied. The most common 

 being by hand from a pail carried in the crook 

 of the arm. Swing the hand and arm as for 

 sowing seed broadcast, experience being the 

 best teacher, if it is desired to find out just 

 how to apply and how much per acre. 

 Either the one or two horse machine fertili- 

 zer spreader does very good work, and can be 

 used if the acreage is so large that hand dis- 

 tributing is impracticable. 



CULTIVATION 



"Tillage is manure." Although not lit- 

 erally true, it comes very near being so. 

 How great an influence tillage has in the 

 production of large crops of any kind! 



Successful strawberry plants cannot be 

 obtained without good tillage, and without 

 good thrifty plants how is it possible to pro- 

 duce large crops of the best berries? Now 

 what is good tillage in strawberry culture? 



