12 MODERN STRAWBERRY GROWING 
one or two applications of commercial 
fertilizer, such as wood ashes and ground 
bone, at the time of setting the plants, and 
a little later about 300 pounds of wood 
ashes and 500 pounds of ground bone being 
used per acre. The latter method could 
be used by the commercial grower to great 
advantage, as it would save labour and might 
be cheaper. For the intensive farmer and 
small grower or fancier heavy applications 
of stable manure would be most desirable 
and would be found to be cheaper in the end. 
The cost of manuring will figure out like this: 
1st plan. 15 cords of manure at $2.50 percord.......... $37.00 
10 cords of manure at $2.50 per cord .......... 25.00 
2nd 
fj 300 Ib. wood ashes at $16 per ton \ —— { 2.40 
is 500 tb. ground bone at $32 per ton Fe 8.00 
$35.40 
Ofttimes the manure can be obtained for 
the handling, or is produced on the property 
and in that case it is the most advisable and 
economical to use. 
PLOUGHING 
In ploughing the land the grower must 
first decide whether to plough in the fall or 
in the spring. 
