THE STRAWBERRY MAY 1907 



the ground are like fish out of water, 

 therefore the sooner they are in their nat- 

 ural element the lower the death rate. 



If, after ordering your plants, your land 

 is not ready to set them out at once, pre- 

 pare a small piece of moist, not wet, land, 

 and trench them in closely together. 



Plow or spade over the land, level it 

 with an iron rake, then lay down a long 

 board six inches wide, using the board as 

 a line. Then with a spade or shovel cut 

 a slanting trench six inches deep; in this 

 lay the plants, after wetting the roots, one 

 inch apart or more, having the crowns 

 even with the bottom of the board. The 

 trench being cut on a slant, the plants 

 will lay where you pur them till you have 

 placed fifty or a hundred. 



Then draw the earth about the roots 

 and press it down firmly wit^ your feet; 

 now fill the trench even with the bottom 

 of the board and again repeat the pressure, 

 putting a little loose earth on the surface. 



These trenches niay be six inches apart, 

 with three or four rows, then leave a space 

 of eighteen inches for a path to work 

 among them to keep the surface free from 

 weeds. 



They may remain in these rows six or 

 eight weeks, or till your land is ready for 

 them. Select a cloudy, moist day to trans- 

 fer them to the land where they are to 

 grow for fruit bearing. 



When digging them from the trenches 

 let all the dirt stick to the roots that will. 

 If the trenches are very dry, soak with 

 water before removing the plants. 



You will find that they have thrown 

 out many new white roots, and if well 

 transplanted into the permanent bed, will 

 grow without any check. Wesmn, Mass. 



One Further Suggestion 



By A. Beck 



1READ with much interest the article 

 in the March number of The Straw- 

 berry entitled, "A Convenient Tool 

 for Strawberry Folk," because being in 

 need of some tool to use for the purpose 

 of cutting the runners on my three-quarter- 

 acre patch of plants, I too conceived the 

 i4ea of utilizing an old worn-out hoe as de- 

 scribed by Mr. Sabin; but I had the black- 

 smith attach a blade eighteen inches in 

 length, using a portion of an old cross-cut 

 saw for the purpose. With this tool I 

 found I could sever every runner in four 

 strokes to each hill, and do it nearly as 

 rapidly as I can walk. When blade be- 

 comes dTiU I sharpened with a file, and 

 find it both economical, and effective. 



Kelso, Washinglon. 



Doing a Week's Washing 



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 and Hi'ouiid them — and the dirt is ttiknii cut. 



In hIx minutes your tubtut of clothes Is clean. 



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There Isn't auytlilnff about a 1900 Gravity 

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You can wat^h the finest iinun, lawn and lace 

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"Tub rips" and "wash tears" are unknown. 



Vour clothes last twice bh lone* 



You save time — labor — and money. 



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Take it home and use it a month. Do all your 

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And, if you don't find the machine all I claim — 

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I agree to accept your decision without any 

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It takes a big factory— the largest waslu-r fuc- 

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WHO has suggestionsof a helpful na- 

 ture to makeP We'd like to have a 

 department in The Strawberry devoted to 

 what we might call "Helpful Hints From 

 Our Folks," and believe if all the readers 

 of this magazine would send us in very 



brief form, the results of their experience 

 and experiments with plants, with fruit, 

 with fertilizers, with devising tools and 

 other aids to berry growing, etc., it would 

 make a department of high value to all. 

 Send us along your suggestions; they may 

 not appear to be particularly important to 

 you, but may be of large value to the 

 .thousands who would utilize them. Next! 



HERE is a warning from Farm Jour- 

 nal worth passing along: "About 

 this time of year irresponsible parties go 

 around attempting to sell so-called recipes 

 for making fertilizers. If any of our read- 

 ers are offered an opportunity to get in on 

 the ground floor of the fertilizer business — 

 to learn how to make fertilizers for $1 a 

 ton — all by purchasing a $5 recipe for 

 makmg fertilizers, we wibh to offer this 



Page L27 



advice: Don't. We have seen several of 

 these recipes, and have yet to see one that 

 was not worthless." 



THE best soil for strawberries is dis- 

 cussed by the Twentieth Century 

 Farmer, which says: In the first place 

 the strawberry is at least 99 per cent wa- 

 ter and hence one of the requisites to a 

 large yield must be retentive soil; after the 

 question of fertility, etc., this must be 

 taken into consideration. To grow the 

 largest berries we believe sandy soils are 

 the best, but to produce the most bushels 

 we would suggest a deep, loamy soil, one 

 that was rather retentive of moisture and 

 yet had sufficient drainage as strawberry 

 roots are very short and superficial. The 

 soil must be one that requires constant 

 shallow cultivation and by so doing keep- 



