44 MODERN STRAWBERRY GROWING 
solved, during the night, which would result 
in leaf injury, called burning. A little time 
spent lightly brushing the leaves in the rows 
after the application of fertilizer may save 
many dollars for the grower. 
There are many ways by which artificial 
fertilizer may be applied. The most common 
being by hand from a pail carried in the crook 
of the arm. Swing the hand and arm as for 
sowing seed broadcast, experience being the 
best teacher, if it is desired to find out just 
how to apply and how much per acre. 
Either the one or two horse machine fertili- 
zer spreader does very good work, and can be 
used if the acreage is so large that hand dis- 
tributing is impracticable. 
CULTIVATION 
“Tillage is manure.” Although not lit- 
erally true, it comes very near being so. 
How great an influence tillage has in the 
production of large crops of any kind! 
Successful strawberry plants cannot be 
obtained without good tillage, and without 
good thrifty plants how is it possible to pro- 
duce large crops of the best berries? Now 
what is good tillage in strawberry culture? 
