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The Hill System — This consists in setting the 

 plants in rows of from three to three and one-half feet 

 apart and one foot apart in the row, and keeping 

 the runners cut ofE, when at the end of the season 

 each plant has made a large number of crown buds, and 

 under favorable conditions will produce a large number 

 of berries. All of the run- 

 ners are of course pulled or 

 cut ofE as they start out. 

 The only serious objection 

 to this system is that with 

 the roots continually start- 

 ing out higher on the crown 

 as new buds are formed, the 

 plants at the end of the 

 season are rather shallow 

 rooted, and are liable to be 

 heaved out during the win- 

 ter unless a deep covering 

 of mulch is placed around 

 them. This method has the 

 advantage that with the runners removed the ground 

 about the plants can be kept clean very easily and 

 cheaply, and the fruit easily mulched and harvested. 



The Hedge Row System (of Kellogg) — This is 

 a modification of the hill system, the plants being set 

 in rows two and one-half to three feet apart, and in 



Fig. 83— Planted Just Right 



Fig. 84— Tlie Hedge Row System 



the rows about two feet, and treated the same way as 

 in the hill system except that plants are allowed to fill 

 in the space at eight to ten inches apart. This is in 

 fact but a modified hill system in which the hills come 



