Small Fruits Pay Well 



Land owners who think they haven't time to attend to 

 small fruit ought to make a comparison of profits. It is 

 as easy to raise berries as wheat, oats or corn, and these 

 fruits return a clean profit five times greater than that 

 from grain. 



The strawberry should be widely cultivated by farm- 

 ers, who with plenty of land and dressing seem to have 

 no excuse for not having their tables well supplied with 

 this appetizing berry, besides earning $200 to $300 an 

 acre on such ground as they devote to the product. There 

 are similar profits in other small fruits. 



If the soil is not already fertile, it can be made so by 

 the addition of stable manure or commercial fertilizers. 

 To avoid grubs, sod ground should not be used, and to 

 avoid weeds, a hoed crop should precede the strawberries. 

 Cow peas or soy beans make a good preparatory crop. 



Fall plowing is desirable, the soil being loosened up 

 in the spring with a cultivator or harrow. Under special 

 conditions strawberries may be set in the fall, but for 

 the amateur grower spring setting is to be recommended. 



The single hedge system may be adopted if desired, 

 and rows may be made three feet apart, and the plants 

 set twelve to sixteen inches apart in the rows. Under 

 this system the grower will permit the maturing of two 

 runner plants from the mother or original plant set, and 

 these plants will be layered in line with the mother plant 

 in the row. 



This will give the grower three plants for fruiting in 

 the season following instead of one plant, and as there 



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