THE STRAWBERRY JUNE 1906 



The land will then be broken and sowed 

 to cowpeas. If I am short of hay I prob- 

 ably shall harvest the cowpeas also for 

 hay. If I do not need the hay I shall 

 turn them under for fertilizer. If the hay 

 should be made, the stubble will be turned 

 under. During the coming winter the 

 savings from stable, sty and shed will be 

 carted to this field. Next year when I 

 purpose to set this to strawberries, I shall 

 expect to find it in good mechanical con- 

 dition, clean of weeds and tilled with 

 humus. 



The best crop immediately to precede 

 strawberries is cowpeas. They nitrogen- 

 ize the soil, render it friable, free it from 

 weeds, and make it a comfortable home 

 for the young plants. They are a better 

 fertilizer for strawberry land than the 

 clovers. They will do the work in ninety 

 days; clover in two years. Besides doing 

 the work a year quicker than clover they 

 will not fill the soil with noxious seeds to 

 interfere with the growth of the plants 

 and increase the labors of the planter. 



Whatever the preceding crop may be 

 the field should be plowed to a moderate 

 depth in the fall. All vegetation turned 

 under will then have time to begin and 

 partly carry forward the process of decay 

 and thus get under way a copious supply 

 of available plant food. The spring fol- 

 lowing, as soon as the ground is dry enough 

 to work well, it should be made ready for 

 planting. It need not be broken again 

 with a "turning plow." If the ground is 

 clear of rocks and stumps, a disc harrow 

 is a good implement to use. , Disc the 

 ground lengthwise five inches deep. Har- 

 row and drag that the cross way. Then 

 disc it the cross way. Harrow and drag 

 that lengthwise. If you do not have a 

 disc, or if your field is too rough for its 

 use, then use a two-horse cultivator or a 

 double shovel. With these cultivate 

 lengthwise and crosswise, and harrow and 

 drag, or roll, until the field is as fine as a 

 garden bed and as firm as a field for 

 wheat. In such a foundation plants can be 



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set at a regular depth and easily firmed. 

 Fixed in firm, moist soil, they will begin 

 at once to grow, and their growth will be 

 rapid. If the ground be broken too deep- 

 ly in the spring and be too loose, the 

 plants cannot be properly firmed in, the 

 ground will not retain its moisture so well, 

 the sun and winds will dry it out, the 

 plants will not start to grow so quickly 

 or grown so rapidl\, and many are likely 

 to die from drought or from being covered 

 too deeply when settled by a hard rain. 

 Whether ground be fall or spring broken, 



fige 134 



it should be thoroughly worked down and 

 made firm. 



With this preparation of the ground 

 take a marker and mark oft the rows one 

 way. I use one similar to a corn marker. 

 It marks five rows at a time three feet 

 apart, and is drawn by two horses. A 

 corn planter is the best implement I have 

 ever used to mark the ground the other 

 way. It leaves the mark smooth, firm 

 and distinct. Take now your dibbles 

 and hump it. 



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