CHAPTER III 
MarkInG AND PLANTING 
THERE are many systems or methods of 
marking out a strawberry bed. Much de- 
pends on the system of planting which is 
to be followed. If the plants are to be set in 
rows four or five feet apart, it will be neces- 
sary to have some form of marker that will 
mark four or more rows at a time. One of 
the best is that made of a piece of two by 
three scantling, at least seventeen feet long. 
For marking rows four feet apart, set in the 
scantling every four feet, either short pieces 
of a broom handle one and one half feet 
long, or iron rods, with some arrangements 
as to shafts if it is to be used for horsepower, 
or two short shafts if it is to be run by man 
power. 
At the ends, or near the ends, a short piece 
of wood (it might be well to allow the out- 
side broom handles to extend above as well 
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