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R. M. KELLOGG'S GREAT CROPS ON 
for their own table, will be found in the fact 
that almost invariably they go to a neighbors 
and dig up plants out of an old bed and there- 
by lose not only their labor and money invested, 
but the enjoyment of having their table sup- 
plied with the king of allfriiitx. 
Well might Henry Ward Beecher exclaim, 
" Doubtless God might have made something 
better than the strawberry, but doubtless God 
never did," but to enjoy it in its fullness we 
must feast the eye as well as the palate and see 
the delicious beauties lying on the ground in 
great windrows. 
There is great enjoyment in expectation, 
henee the pleasure of gardening and seeing the 
good things coming on. 
Cut-ping Runners. 
If you want very large, rich, high-colored 
fruit, set in rows three feet apart and one foot 
apart in the row and cut off every runner as 
soon as it appears, and give thorough cultiva- 
tion and you will get virhat you are working 
for. 
Every time you cut off a runner a new crown 
will generally form and that means an addi- 
tional fruit stem. All the runners you let root 
and afterwards cut off is just that much thrown 
away. If your ground is very rich and carefully 
cultivated so as to allow no check in growth it 
is not at all difficult to grow a plant larger 
than a half-bushel, and they have been grown 
as large as a bushel basket. Such a plant 
ought to yield from two to four quarts of mag- 
nificent fruit. 
The Amateur 
who takes great pleasure in the beautiful will 
delight in cultivating in this way. He can 
feast his eyes and palate and astonish his 
neighbors to his heart's content, but the 
grower who has "bread and butter" as the 
chief object in view will hardly find the market 
Sufficiently Kdncated 
to justify all this additional expense. There is 
a happy medium. You will get almost as large 
fruit and very much more of it by setting 
plants about eighteen inches apart and then 
allowing about five runners to take root, plac- 
ing them somewhat in this shape: Let "A" 
represent the mother plant and " b " the run- 
ner allowed to take root: 
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the outside plants being at least eight inches 
from the mother plant. All the plants will be 
about eight inches apart. New runners will 
now form but a narrow garden hoe will chop 
them off pretty fast after you have taken the 
Planet Jr. lawn edger and removed the "plow"' 
and run along each side. This is the finest 
thing I have ever seen for the purpose. It is 
the 
Greatest Mistalie 
to let plants form too thick. . You have no right 
to expect a big crop of berries with a plant on 
every square inch. 
Our practice is to chop them out as evenly as 
we can with a narrow garden hoe and then go 
over them rapidly after having used the Planet 
Jr. runner cutter, and pull them out as you 
would weeds. If they by chance get thrown 
around by the cultivator so as to make them 
too thick they should be given a very quick 
jerk when they will break without injuring the 
plants to be left; of course it involves consider- 
able work, but it pays largely. A man can get 
over a good deal of ground in a diiy. Plants 
must have light and air as well as room for 
roots to feed in. The roots of a vigorous plant 
go out from one to two feet in search of food. 
Give them a chance. 
Mulch and Fire. 
Nothing pays better one year with another. 
Marsh hay is the best but difficult to obtain in 
all localities. We generally use straw and do 
not pay much attention to weed seed except it 
be timothy. We apply several inches thick as 
soon as ground is frozen so we can drive on 
with a team and when freezing is over in the 
spring rake from immediately over the plants 
so they can come up through and do not dis- 
turb it further till after picking is done. It 
keeps the berries clean, the ground moist and 
the pickers appreciate it. Then run the mow- 
ing machine over tlie row cutting as close as 
possible, and after letting the leaves dry a day 
or so stir out the straw putting a good allow- 
ance directly on the row and when the wind is 
favorable apply the match, and burn insects, 
fungi and weeds black as tar. Don't imagine 
your 
