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cultivate and you get greater, finer and more evenly-distributed crop of humus, 

 including both tops and roots. Plow under in early fall and plant rye, wheat or 

 some other crops to hold the soil in winter. This fall sown crop should be plowed 

 and disced very early in spring, however, to make room for early planting. Buck- 

 wheat in late summer makes lots of humus. Alfalfa, sweet clover, or, in fact almost 

 any crop that makes lots of humus, turned into the ground sometime ahead, leaves 

 the soil in excellent condition for strawberry plants. 



How Far Apart. We recommend setting plants in rows 33^2 or 4 feet apart. 

 Set the plants from 18 to 24 inches apart in the row. Free-growing varieties like 

 Missionary, Dunlap, Paul Jones, etc., should be set 24 inches apart. Varieties 

 like Chesapeake, New York, and others that do not make plants freely, should 

 be set only 18 inches apart in the row. When set in rows 3 feet, 8 inches apart, 

 and plants, 18 to 20 inches apart in the row, it requires about 8 ; 000 plants per 



Clearing new land, Fall, 1925 



Same field, Fall, 1926, producing fine crop of good, true-to-name plants 



