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about the plant? <is a mulch to retain the moisture and to keep the 

 berries clean. After the first crop has been harvested the bed 

 mast be put in shape for the following year's crop. This is done 

 by thorough cultivation for the remainder of the season, and the 

 removal of runners as they appear. 



It must be remembered that the fruit for any given season 

 is all provided for and made ready the previous season. Unless 

 the plants are kept thrifty and vigorous they will not find it 

 possible to prepare for much of a fruit crop. In July and August 

 the soil will become hard and baked unless constantly stirred. It 

 is just at this time however that the plants should be doing their 

 best work for the future and must not be neglected. If the bed 

 is well tilled after the first crop removing most of the old plants 

 and encouraging the young ones, the second crop will be as Inrge 

 as the first one. By continuing this same method we have grown 

 three good crops in Ric-cession on the same land and last season one 

 old bed was put into shape to see what the fourth crop will amount 

 to. It is generally advised however to grow but two crops and then 

 plow up the bed. 



VARIETIES. 



Out of the thirty-four varieties in the trial bed last season 

 the following gave the highest yields, coming in the order named : 

 WarfielcL Tennessee Prolific, Emperor, Senator Dunlap, Samy.le, 

 Wm. Beit, Beder Wood, Drouth King and New York. Of these 

 the Warfield and Sample are not self-fertilizing and will need 

 to be planted in alternate rows with some of the other varieties. 



Considering vigor, hardiness and quality, the Senator Dun- 

 lap made perhaps the best showing. Twenty-four plants set in 

 1902 gave twenty-four and one-half quarts in 1903. 



The Wm. Belt is another excellent berry and very lar^e. We 

 raised single specimens measuring seven inches in circumference, 

 twelve of them filling a quart box. In all the tests made the 

 plants were not watered. While the price for strawberries in 

 North Dakota is very high, still we would not advise growing 

 on a large scale till one is able to grow them successful^ in a 

 pmall way. To be successful one year with another it will be 

 necessary to luive a well sheltered location. With a goccl lo- 

 cation and a thorough knowledge of the business a profit of from 

 two to five hundred dollars per acre should be obtained. The late 

 varieties will ordinarily pay the best as everything is out of the 



