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rest of land I would have occupied by rows of currants, rasp- 

 berries, etc. Beginning at the second year this is the way it 

 would be found : 



(1) Bearing bed of strawberries. 



(2) Newly set strawberry bed. 



(3) Clover. 



(4) Vegetables. 

 Currants. 



Black cap raspberries. 

 Black cap raspberries. 

 Red raspberries. 

 Shaffer raspberries. 

 Blackberries. 

 Blackberries. 



This would give us just about the right quantity of each kind 

 of fruit. The next year the bearing bed of strawberries (i) would 

 be in clover. I would plow bed under as soon as I was through 

 picking and sow clover seed. Harrow ground down all fine and 

 firm when it is moist and sow seed and roll, and it will come up 

 and grow nicely, at least mine does. It falls in the little harrow 

 marks and the roller covers it just right. The easiest and best 

 way is to set out a new strawberry bed every spring. It is easier 

 to care for a new, clean bed than the old one, and you get finer 

 berries and always have the best plants to set out then. The next 

 year (2) would be the bed to pick, and sow clover seed on after 

 the season is over. (3) Would be in vegetables. Manure the 

 clover if needed and plow under for the garden stuff. (4) Would 

 be the newly set strawberry bed. Strawberries, would be set each 

 spring on land that was in vegetables the previous year. This 

 rotation could be kept up continuously and would give the finest 

 of strawberries and vegetables, and with the -least expense for 

 manure. One-tenth of an acre of strawberries is about what we 

 want, or sixteen square rods. According to above plan our bed 

 would each year be i rod by 16 long, or four rows sixteen rods long. 

 One-tenth of an acre would be room enough for the smaller garden 

 crops. The currants I would set six feet apart in the row and 

 make all the rows, currants, raspberries and everything, eight feet 

 apart. We have them so, and it is none too much for best 

 results. If grapes are wanted, a row or two of them may be added, 

 also gooseberries. Grapes are too liable to be frozen back in the 

 spring on our farm, and after much fussing we have torn them all 

 out. We can buy choice grapes from the shore of L,ake Erie at a 

 low price, better ones than can be grown here. All these plants 

 may be set in the spring. You can get a full crop of strawberries 

 the next season, and some raspberries. We got quite a few 

 Shaffer raspberries the second year, only about fifteen months from 

 setting out. 



