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Vdvxx oi the June beetle; this can be held in check and entirely 

 avoided by planting on land which has had a hoed crop the 

 year before, and a good rule to follow is never to plant straw- 

 berries twice in succession on the same land. 



Vox- \'arieties we grow principally Parson's Beauty, Sen. 

 Dunlap, Sample, Minute Man, Glen Mary, Haverland and 

 Bismark. Of these our main crop consists of Minute Man and 

 Parson's Beauty, while our neighbors have great success with 

 Glen Mary, but we find that six varieties for market are better 

 than twelve. 



One of our neighbors is experimenting with a new shipping 

 crate for fancy strawberries. This crate holds 12 quarts and 

 is made on the principle of a chest of drawers or shallow trays 

 which slide into the box are used and one layer of berries is 

 placed in each of these trays. Marsh.all strawberry is grown 

 for this trade and the No. 1 sell for about fifty cents per ([uart. 

 Certainly fancy berries should never be placed on top of each 

 other. 



d he raspberry and blackberry require similar cultivation. 

 Land that has clay sub-soil with plenty of water in it is pre- 

 ferred, yet this land should be well drained, as nothing is more 

 harmful to these fruits than too much water about their root. 

 The preparation of the land is very much the same as for the 

 strawberry, for both raspberries and blackberries thrive in a 

 well worked soil, but less fertilizer of a nitrogenous nature is 

 used, as too much of this tends to make a soft growth on the 

 canes. The system used with us is the hedge row and the 

 rows are furrowed out with double mouldboard plough five feet 

 apart and the plants, wdiich are young suckers of the previous 

 season's growth, are set two feet apart, using two plants to a 

 hill. The canes are cut back to within six inches of the ground 

 in order to induce new growth from the roots. The spaces 

 between the rows are planted the first year with some root 

 crop like beets, carrots or onions, according to the location of 

 the land. Corn has also been used, but the difficulty of re- 

 moving the fodder without injuring the young plant has led 

 to the suspension of this practice. The ground is kept well 

 cultivated until about the middle of August, when cultivation 

 with the exception of hand pulling of weeds just about the plant 



