BIGGIE BERRY BOOK. 



Again I call on our good friends to tell us how to 

 save hand hoeing in strawberry culture, and how the 

 heavy end of the labor can be done by horse power. 



Destroy as many weeds as possible the 

 year before after the potato crop. Culti- 

 vate clo,se and shallow both ways until the 

 runners are set and then only one way. 

 W. W. FARNSWORTH Use Planet Jr. 

 with sweeps one time and scraping shovels 



: to scrape away from the plants the next 

 time, and harrow often to prevent the 



:, weeds getting too large. O. 



On my soil it is not possible to dis- 



W. W. FARNSWORTH penge with hand hoeing The p lanet Jr 



EUGENE WILLETT Cultivator and a light thin bladed hoe in the 

 hands of an active man are the surest, safest, and, in the end, 

 quickest way I have ever found. N. Y. 



I never could get along without con- 

 siderable hand hoeing. For cleaning out 

 old beds I use Boss Plow that has a mold- 

 board about as large as one's hand, which 

 H. S. TlMBRELL leaves the ground level 

 and all the rubbish on top, and I use a fine 

 tooth cultivator which cleans them out of 

 the row which will have to be hand hoed. 



N. Y 



W. C. WILSON Planet Jr. Cultivator and 

 Horse Harrow supplemented by hand hoe. 



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The best way to save hand hoeing is to use cultivators every 

 T. J. DWYER ten days or so. A careful man, steady horse and 

 proper tools are very essential requirements in the care of straw- 

 berries. We use the Planet Jr. Cultivator. N. Y. 



GEORGE Q. Dow Use a fine tooth cultivator. The Planet Jr. 

 people make one with lots of fine teeth. N. H. 



M. A. THAYER Cultivate strawberries both ways just after set- 



H. S. TlMBRELL 



