CHAPTER V. 



MANURING AND PREPARING THE GROUND. 



Prepare thoroughly and manure heavily . TIM. 



WHAT previous preparation should the ground 

 have when strawberries are to be planted and 

 how best to fertilize ? On these two impor- 

 tant questions I bring in abundant evidence from 

 most trustworthy witnesses, enough, I should say, to 

 settle them in the minds of all who do not now have 

 some special contrary knowledge of their own, inac- 

 cessible to the majority of mortals. The first witness 

 isj. H. Hale. 



A well rotted clover sod that has been deeply plowed or 

 spaded, with the addition of subsoiling if it has a stiff bottom. 

 After plowing, a heavy top dressing of well rotted stable manure 

 supplemented with potash in some form, or say 3,000 pounds of 

 J. H. HALE fine ground raw bone, 500 pounds of muriate of 

 potash, and 200 pounds each of tankage and nitrate ol soda per 

 acre, all evenly broadcasted, followed by a thorough pulveriza- 

 tion of the soil by harrowing and reharrowing about four times 

 as much as the average plowman will think he ought to Conn. 



A one year's clover sod well manured and planted to pota- 

 toes, and well tilled one year, makes one of the best preparations 

 W. W. FARNSWORTH for strawberries; but any other plan 

 that will make the soil reasonably rich and in good tilth, and 

 free from weed seeds, will answer. O. 



W C. WILSON My plan is to manure with barn-yard manure, 

 a year before, and grow a crop of potatoes. 111. 



WM. D> BARNS Strawberries should follow a hoed crop. 



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