THE STRAWBERRY MAY 1907 



growth and crown system, which in turn 

 will develop productive fruit buds, and 

 lots of them. 



7. It keeps plants from starving and 

 becoming stunted in a dry time. 



We ought not to expect any more from 

 plants than we may from animaW. 1 ake 

 a calf, for example. Feed it heavily and 

 give it the best of care for a few weeks, 

 then because you are busy or become 

 negligent, starve it and give it no care for 

 a week or so — what would the result be? 

 A stunted calf, of course. The same is 

 true of plant life. A strawberry plant 

 gets just as hungry for its kind of food as 

 does the calf for its mainstay, and to over- 

 feed it one week and neglect it the next 

 will result in failure with strawberries just 

 as it does with the dairy herd. Make 

 your plants your pets and treat them as 

 pets, and if you cannot learn to love them 

 enough to make them your pets, you never 

 will make a big success in the strawberry 

 business. I never heard of a man who 

 hated cows gaining a big reputation in the 

 dairy business. Love is a wonderful thing. 

 It makes rough places smooth, and dark 

 days bright. All animals know the dif- 

 ference between love and hate, and I be- 

 lieve plants do also. At least they re- 

 spond liberally to good care and lots of 

 petting. 



One year ago I bought a saddle horse 

 that had been abused and neglected until 

 he became poor and ill-natured, and would 

 fight his master. To-day Captain is one 

 of the most beautiful and best-natured 

 saddle horses in Michigan. He is fat, 

 sleek, and affectionate. He hands me his 

 right foot and shakes hands before I mount 

 him, and again after I dismount. He will 

 pace, fox-trot, square-trot, single-foot and 

 gallop, or walk, and quickly will change 

 to any of these gaits. He understands 

 the gait I wish him to go by a certain 

 move of the rein. This great change in 

 Captain's life was brought about by affec- 

 tion, the currie-comb, good feed and good 

 care. Just try it in your strawberry work 

 and see if the plants do not show it as 

 quickly as did this horse. 



ONE well-known authority on the sub- 

 ject, Harry Snyder, professor of soils 

 of the Minnesota Experiment Station, 

 says that the indirect value of manure is 

 greater than that as a fertilizer. Chem- 

 ical changes result from the contact of 

 decaying manure with inactive mineral 

 food in the soil, which render it available, 

 besides producing humus. Continuous 

 grain farming uses up humus, making it 



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less capable of holding moisture, and as 

 there is no decay of vegetable matter, the 

 time arrives when the soil must have a 

 long period in which to recuperate itself. 



Success with Twin Double-Hedge 



Row 



By Mrs. A. Andrews 



HAVE read The Strawberry journal 

 the past year with great interest 

 and think it the very best fruit 

 journal printed, as it deals with the straw- 

 berry alone and does justice to the work 

 in every detail. 



I have grown strawberries the past six 

 years, and have been very successful. 

 Have always grown matted row simply 

 because I knew of no other or better meth- 



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od. Last spring after reading The Straw- 

 berry, I decided to try the Edgerton plan of 

 setting, set two and one-half acres, twenty 

 inches between narrow rows and three 

 feet between wide rows. Runners were 

 layered to form the single-hedge row and 

 all runners cut off after that and I followed 

 The Strawberry method of cultivating. 

 Last fall the field was a picture. The 

 plants were thoroughbreds, and they cer- 

 tainly showed their breeding as I never 

 have had plants that grew so thrifty. 

 I am ready to endorse all you say in 

 regard to growing fancy fruit, and too 

 much cannot be said about packing care- 

 fully. My berries have the reputation of 

 being the very best on the market; in fact, 

 they now have a reputation of their own. 

 I set my own price, and never have grown 

 enough to supply my customers. This 



