Strawberries and How to Grow Them 



Use a Patent Weedcr 



Another important result of proper The plants should be cultivaterl after 

 cultivation of the soil is in the loosening j each rain, as soon as the soil is dry 

 of it up in such a way as to leave small enough to crumble, and should it remain 

 air spaces between the soil grains, the ' dry the cultivation should be repeated 

 result of which is to furnish air to the j every eight or ten days, thus replacing 

 bacterial germs so they may well per 



form their work of transforming the raw 

 materials in the soil into an available 

 form as plant food. The more uniformly 

 these microbe organisms perform their 

 part of the work, the more vigorously 

 will the plants grow. Before describing 

 more definitely the way to cultivate we 

 shall enumerate its several advantages. 



1. It prevents the formation of crust 

 on the surfact of the soil. 



2. It creates and maintains a blanket 

 of dust over the surface of the ground, 

 retains moisture in the soil and keeps its 

 temperature at a normal degree. 



3. It enables bacteria to secure ample 

 quantities of air. 



4. It destroys weed seed while in the 

 germinating stage; and this, by the way, 

 is the best time to kill all obnoxious 

 growths, ' 



5. It mixes the fertilizer with the soil, 

 so that the bacterial germs may work up 

 the fertilizer into available forms of 

 plant food. 



6. It keeps the strawberry runners 

 from overflowing into the space between 

 the rows. 



: every 



the old dust mulch with a new dust 

 mulch. 



When the plants become large and be- 

 gin to spread out it is a good plan to 

 have the cultivator teeth that run next 

 to the plants about two inches shorter 

 than the other teeth. When arranged in 

 this way the teeth will go deeply enough 

 to break the crust near the plants with- 

 out cutting any of the roots of the plant. 

 About twice each month a five tooth cul- 

 tivator should be run through the center 

 of the space between the rows. It may 

 go four or five inches deep and will loosen 

 up the soil where the horse has tramped 

 it down while doing the shallow cultiva- 

 tion. The work of cultivating is easy 

 and inexpensive. One man and horse 

 easily may cultivate four acres of straw- 

 berry plants a day. 



As we have said, cultivation is a prime 

 essential to success. To neglect cultiva- 

 tion is an invitation to failure. The 

 more thoroughly this work is done, the 

 larger the results are sure to be, and it 

 may truly be said that the cultivator is 

 one of the strawberry grower's best 

 friends. 



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