Stoawberries How To Grow Them 
COMMERCIAL STRAWBERRY FIELD OF C. E. DILTS, THORNVILLE, OHIO 
I TNDER dale of July 6, 1907, Mr. Dills writes us that although this was a poor season for strawberries he "se- 
cured from my two acres of Thoroughbreds more berries than my neighbor did from his four acres of common 
plants. This looks big, but the Kellogg plants have the ability to stand the strain of adverse climatic conditions." 
Recently there have been experiments carried 
forward in the horticultural department of the 
Michigan Agricultural College along this very 
line, and photographs of berries that were pro- 
duced from mated bisexual flowers grown at the 
college, also photographed berries produced 
from flowers that were self-pollenized, are exhib- 
ited there, and they indicate a large difference in 
favor of the exchange of pollen. Such results 
certainly justify our confidence that the exchang- 
ing of pollen is an important feature of the work 
of strawberry production, and that success is 
more certain with bisexuals of different varieties 
set closely together, than where a bisexual variety 
is set entirely by itself. 
Setting the Plants 
A PROPERLY grown strawberry plant is 
exceedingly hardy arid will grow under 
almost any kind of treatment, but if care be used 
when setting the plants it will greatly assist their 
roots to take hold upon the soil; in fact good 
plants, carefully set, is the starting point on the 
highway of success in the strawberry business. 
It is our purpose to start you right. 
The first thing to be considered is the width 
of the rows, and this depends upon the method 
you are to follow in cultivating them. If the 
work is to be done with a horse, the rows should 
be at least three and a half feet apart, the plants 
being placed from twenty- four to thirty inches 
apart in the rows, assuming that the system you 
have adopted be the single-hedge, double-hedge 
or narrow-matted row. But if the plants are 
to be gro\vn in the wide-matted-row system, then 
the rows should be four feet apart, as this will 
give more space for the plants to spread, so that 
each plant may have room in which to develop 
into a heavy fruiter. In family gardens, where 
hand work is to be employed exclusively and 
where space is scarce, the rows may be as close 
as twenty-four to thirty inches, and the plants 
set from fifteen to twenty inches in the row. 
We find that a dibble like the one shown on 
Page 63 is the best tool to employ when setting 
plants. It makes a smooth, large opening, so 
that the roots may be well spread, thus allowing 
every root to come into direct contact with the 
moist soil and at once begin feeding and building 
up a vigorous fruit-producing organism. And 
remember that every convenience of this kind 
that is employed in the work of strawberry cul- 
ture tends to lessen labor and increase pleasure 
and profits. Every grower owes it to himself 
