R. M. KELLOaa'S QREAT CROPS OP 
full brass trimming's brightly polished and 
brass gong attached to wag-on to let people 
know when we are in the neighborhood so 
there is no waiting. 
It will <lo you s'ood to hear the children 
shout and the mothers rush to the door. I 
had rather sell berries this way than to play 
ball. There is more fun (cash) in it. 
Another good way. Select the leading 
groceryman aiid arrange with him to 
handle all your fruit, and put little 
squibs in local paper that your ber- 
ries are for sale at that store. The extra 
trade it will bring him will pay him a good 
profit for handling your fruit. You will 
rarely need pay over one cent per quart 
commission. 
Never overcharge nor accept a price lower 
than the grade of fruit will warrant. 
SELECTING A SITE. 
I do not care to spend much time on this 
subject. Everybody knows good land when 
they see it. How would it do for a garden? 
Hard, flinty clay or light, drifting sand are 
bad. A light clay or sand loam are best. 
Stony land is good if it does not interfere 
with cultivation. Cold, springy land is bad. 
High land, that is, land which is higher 
than any in the immediate vicinity is best. 
Cold air runs off the hills onto low land 
precisely the same as water, so that a low 
piece of ground with high land all around 
it should not be selected. Level land with 
no high hills near it will do. A south in- 
cline matures fruit early and a north incline 
makes the same variety later. 
MANURING THE GROUND. 
stable manure is the best. I should pre- 
fer to have it well rotted, but that cannot 
always be had. Get the best you can find, 
even if you have to draw it as fast as made. 
Spread it evenly over the ground during 
the winter and early spring. Do not put in 
piles. The deep snow is no objection to 
spreading it. The winter and spring rains 
will wash the juices into the ground so it 
will be incorporated witli tlie soil where the 
plants can use it. Before plowing rake off 
all coarse straw so that capillary attraction 
which draws water 'from the lower subsoil 
shall not be cut off. Water will not pass up 
through a mass 'of straw if plowed under. 
Be very careful about this. If you 
can't get stable manure apply broadcast 
from four to eight hundred pounds of pure, 
fine ground raw bone meal and not over fifty 
bushels per acre of unleached hardwood 
ashes and cultivate in before plowing. 
ROOT PASTURAGE. 
The ground should be prepared so that 
roots can penetrate and feed in every square 
inch of the upper twelve inches of the soil, 
and even penetrate deeply into the lower 
strata. The soil must be porous and friable 
so the air can enter it to dissolve the plant 
food and make it available. A lump is 
bad. Its particles are cemented together 
so no air can get into it and as the food it 
contains is not available the roots will not 
penetrate it. If lumps are turned to the 
bottom of the furrow without being mashed 
they make innumerable holes or air chambers 
through which water cannot come up by 
capillary action and a feeding root will not 
pass through the slightest cavity, so that 
unless we pulverize the first six inches 
before we plow, the area of root pasturage 
is greatly diminished and no after cultiva- 
tion will compensate for this loss. 
The Greenville. 
HOW PLANTS FEED. 
It is a mistake to suppose that plants eat 
manure. They do nothing of the kind. 
It must first become thoroughly decomposed, 
actual dirt. Large quantities of any kind 
of raw manure coming directly in contact 
with roots of plants is rank poison to them. 
More plants and vine.-; are killed by manur- 
ing in the hill than from any other cause. 
Don't do it. Don't put a lot of manure 
directly under the hill because it shuts off 
the water from coming up from below. 
Plants take their food in the form 
of water having a little mineral substance 
in it. It is sucked up by little hair like roots 
and passes up through the center of the 
stalk to the leaves which perform the same 
