150 MODERN STRAWBERRY GROWING 



use the cultivator teeth as soon as the soil 

 dries out after a rain, then finish with rakes, 

 using the hoe to cut off all weeds as soon as 

 they appear. Only a little hand hoeing will 

 be needed close around the plant. If you 

 keep a horse or can get one easily, horse 

 cultivation with a cultivator having several 

 small teeth is best and easiest, but this should 

 have been planned for when setting the 

 plants by making long rows two and a half 

 feet or more apart. I have sometimes cul- 

 tivated the long way of the bed with the 

 horse and the short way with a wheel hoe. 

 This makes the soil so mellow that the wheel 

 hoe runs very easily. 



" The method of clipping and transplant- 

 ing runners, if any are left to grow, will de- 

 pend on the plan of culture you have decided 

 upon. For best results in hill culture, put the 

 plants in check rows not over two feet apart 

 each way; eighteen inches is better for light 

 soils, and for the non-stooling varieties. Hill 

 culture is the highest culture and the plants 

 require more attention. The runners must 

 be clipped every two or three days all sum- 

 mer, the plants watched closely for white 

 grubs which eat off the roots of the plants; 



