MONITOR (B). 
MEDIUM TO LATE. Introduced from Missouri 
five years ago. -Tried and tested at all experiment sta- 
tions. The demand was so great last spring our stock 
fell short, but we have a large increase for this year. 
Berries are all large and of uniform tvpe, deep red to 
the core and as productive as any perfect flower. Five 
year pedigree. 
ly. If tlie day is dry and liot, \vc put a little 
water in the pan, but do not soak the roots too 
long. If the ground is fairly moist and the 
day is cloudy, we do not wet roots at all. 
Few plants will stand inorc hardship than the 
strawberry and live and yet you cannot ai¥ord 
to take chances on exposin.sj thcni more than is 
necessary. 
WATERING PLANTS. 
During a dry time people sometimes kill 
their plants by the manner in which they water 
them. If the surface is kept loose, plants may 
not grow as fast during the latter part of a 
month's drought, but they will not die. The 
moisture is in the subsoil and if the surface is 
loose it cannot get away. Now, pour water 
on so as to saturate three or four inches and 
you have packed the surface so capillary pas- 
sages are established with the subsoil water 
and the whole comes up very fast and dries off 
so that at the end of about thirty hours it 
will be dry as a bone below the roots and, of 
course, the plant must die, for no plant can 
live, if the ground does not contain two per 
cent, of water. 
The right way is to dig holes with a bar of 
iron or a trowel some distance from the plants, 
fill these with water several times and let it 
soak away so as to put the water into the sub- 
soil. It will then percolate out under the 
plants and rise by capillarity so the roots will 
get it. After the water has soaked away hoe 
the surface fine and then water will not es- 
cape until the plants have tiine to drink k up. 
Put on a whole big lot at a time and don't add 
any more for at least a week. Be especially 
careful never to stir the surface when it is 
muddy. Never sprinkle strawberries with wa- 
ter from city water works when the sun shines. 
SUTHERLAND (B). 
MEDIUM TO LATE. Large delicious berries and 
plenty of them. Not fastidious about anything, but 
pitches in and grows. While its pedigree here is only 
two selections, yet it stools up promptly and shows high 
qualities. 
It will scald the foliage or cause it to rust. 
If you must sprinkle, put on heavy at night, 
wet it down to the bottom of the roots and then 
wait a week or so. Never sprinkle when in 
bloom. The large drops pelt the pistils and 
interfere seriously with pollenation. 
Twelve Tooth Planet, Jr., and Runner Cutter. 
CULTIVATING. 
The cultivator is the poker to the strawber- 
ry engine. In running the engine you have to 
keep the coal stirred up so the air can get in 
to make the fire and it is just the same with 
the plant. Some people use the culivator 
only to kill weeds and while it is an excellent 
tool for that purpose, yet weed killing is a 
secondary affair. No weed can live where til- 
lage to meet other requirements is given. 
Plants cannot take any food until it is dis- 
solved in the soil water. Now, if all plant 
foods were at once dissolved in the water, 
they would wash out and nothing could grow 
and so the Creator provided that as soon as 
these things were put in the ground they 
should chemically change to a form not sol- 
uble in water. At the same time a resolvent 
was given to make them change back to a 
soluble form as fast as the plants can take it 
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