strawberries and How He Grows Them 
SENATOR DUNLAP (B). 
^ MEDIUM TO LATE. I wish I could impress you 
with the true value of this variety. It is my pet of pets. 
Vou cannot make the mistake of setting it too largely. 
It is such a vigorous grower that it is at home on all 
soils. We have continuously propagated it on our Pedi- 
gree Plan for six years and while it is a prodigious run- 
ner maker so its plant is not as large as others, yet it 
shows its breeding by building up the biggest crowns, 
even in propagating bed where runners are to be fed as 
well as fruit crowns. When runners are cut as for hedge 
or narrow row, the berries just pile up and they are so 
beautiful and delicious. Fire red to the center, shiny 
surface antl beautiful yellow seeds. Look at the pho> 
tograph. That only half tells it. 
KANSAS (P). 
MEDIUM. I received this berry for trial seven 
years ago and put it in the trial bed with about 250 other 
varieties and it outranked them all. It was a hot, dry 
season giving it a chance to prove its droughty quali- 
ties. It always gets there with berries of high quality, 
big, red fellows and is a safe variety to make a leader. 
Has been tested everywhere. Pedigree, since introduc- 
tion, seven years. 
when heavy rains come the plants are drowned 
out, and during a drouth can get no water from 
the subsoil, all of which is remedied by sub- 
soiling. 
Some soils are injured by subsoiling, as a 
waxy clay or gumbo soil, which, when very 
wet, will run together in a solid mass. Earth 
worms tunnel such soils and keep them porous, 
and it is better not to distrub them. A loose 
gravel or light sand is already as loose as it 
should be to secure capillary action and will 
be injured by making it looser. 
A composition of sand, gravel and clay or 
what is called "hard-pan" or any soil so dense 
you cannot dig it up with the hands, would be 
very greatly benefitted by breaking it up. I 
urge subsoiling wherever the conditions will 
permit it. It should always be done very early 
in the spring so the rains will fill the "reser- 
voir" before the drought sets in. 
The Roller. — You cannot properly fit land 
without a roller or floater. The plow and har- 
row leave the ground too loose and do not 
sufficiently exclude free air and capillary ac- 
tion will not bring the water up from below. 
The particles of earth must be brought near 
together. If you do not have a roller, take 
three two-inch planks about seven feet long 
and one foot wide; bolt or spike the edges to- 
The Floater. 
gether like the siding on a house, and hitch a 
chain to each end, and load it with as tnuch 
stone as a team can draw and go over the sur- 
face. On many soils it will do better work 
than a roller. Do not attempt to set plants in 
loose earth. 
Marking off the ground. — Have your ground 
properly firmed, leveled and rolled so you can 
set the plant exactly the right depth, or if you 
use the dibble <ir spade, you can determine 
quickly the right depth for setting plants. 
Mark as^ light as possible where the rows are 
to be. For this purpose we take a board about 
one-half inch thick, eight or ten inches wide 
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