298 Farmers' Miscellany. [April, 



always set out my plants about the first of May, when the young 

 fruit is about the size of garden peas or larger. When cabbage 

 plants can be set out and live, strawberry plants can be set out 

 with equal success. The first summer the vines must be kept 

 clean, and the runners laid aside when dressing them ; and ground 

 can be made to produce near one hundred bushels per acre in one 

 year; but the pathway between the beds must be excluded in the 

 measurement. Notwithstanding I never set out any but female 

 plants, sterile (male) plants will soon appear, which no doubt 

 originate from seed of berries that ripen and are trod down by the 

 feet at gathering time. 



" I have found it a good plan to mow my beds over before the 

 first of August, which can be done with safety when the ground 

 is not too dry. And to make speed and save much labor in keep- 

 ing my beds clean, I make them long and narrow, and early every 

 spring harrow them severely. My soil is clay, with but little 

 sand : in a sandy soil I expect less harrowing would do — which 

 could be known by the quantity of vines harrowed up, and in no 

 case ought more than one-fourth of the vines to be removed. 

 After harrowing, all loose vines and trash should be taken from 

 the beds with a hand rake; and if the soil is not sandy, a top 

 dressing of fine sand, raked over, is of great benefit. If there is 

 any kind of strawberry that wall not produce good crops of fruit 

 on my plan, others must have it ; for none of that description have 

 been received by me as yet, and I have about ten kinds — the Ho- 

 vey Seedling amongst them; but that kind I have not yet fully 

 tried. If any one differs with me in opinion, the evidence to sup- 

 port the statements now made, can be annually witnessed here." 



POULTRY. 



Turkeys. — To rear young turkeys warm dry situations are re- 

 quired, and near by a runnmg stream of water; besides this dry 

 woods seem to be sought for instinctively by the animal itself. 

 A turkey very frequently hatches fifteen or sixteen young at one 

 sitting. When first hatched they are extremely tender, and are 

 injured by rains and even heavy dews. Hence, they ought 

 always to be placed in sunny places, where they will be kept dry. 

 Sometimes the hen left to herself will succeed in rearing a brood. 

 The artificial management of young turkeys is well described in 

 the Magazine of Horticulture, from which we shall extract a 

 passage or two. 



