H SMALL FRUITS AND HOW TO PROW THEM | : 11 
from below. The particles of earth must be 
broug-ht near tofjether. If you do not have a 
roller, take three two-inch planks about 
seven feet long- and one foot wide: bolt or 
spike the edfres tog-ether like the sidinjf „,i a 
house and hitch a chain to each end and load 
it with as much stone as the team can draw, 
and ffo over the surface. On many soils it 
will do better work than a roller. J)<» not 
ntU'iiipt to set plant.s in loose oartli. 
berry beds. No matter how many /////<? 
weeds there are, we take two rows, As seen 
in the enjfraving-, and clean them out entirely 
at the rate of from fifteen to twenty acres 
per day, making- a tine dust mulch allaround 
each plant. If plants have been carefully set, 
It will not injure or disturb one in a vvhole 
day's work. There are several makes of 
Tiiic M.\](K]:i(. 
MarUiiis ott' the- <>ioiiii<l. Have your 
g-round properly firmed, leveled and rolled .so 
the perfection plant setter will .set the plants 
exactly the right depth or if you use the 
dibble or spade, you can determine quickly 
the right depth for setting plants. Mark as 
lig'-htly as possible where the rows are to be. 
For this purjiose we take a board about one- 
half inch thick, eight or ten inches wide 
and longr- enough to mark four rows at a 
time. Make fmir short sled runners and 
nail them under the board the distance the 
rows are to be apart, and nail shaft.s or 
handles on the top to draw it with. A man 
can draw it all day without fatigue. The 
object of using- a thin boai-d is to make it 
bend and accommodate itself to the uneven 
surface of the ground. Get the first row per- 
fectly straight and let one runner go in the 
last mark as a guide. This will make all the 
rows e.xactly so far apart so that late in the 
season when your plants get larger vou can 
remove one or two teeth of the weeding 
machine and cultivate two rows at a time, 
enabling you to use the weeder all summer^ 
doing- the cultivating- at the rate of fifteen 
or twenty acres per day. 
TOOLS. 
We herewith g-ive a description of some 
very desirable tools with name and address 
of the manufacturers. We do not handle 
them and you should address the parties 
direct, who will advise you as to where thej- 
can be had, with price, "etc. 
For iM'iT.v boxos, crates, grape baskets, 
bushel baskets, berry box machines, eg-g- 
cases, and all kinds of fruit packages, .send 
for price list to the Wclls-Higman Company, 
St. Joseph, Mich.. We have bought all our 
boxes of them ever since we have been in 
business and never received a second grade 
article. They are the largest manufacturers 
in the West, and are perfectly reliable. 
They make a specialty of Climax grape and 
peach baskets. It pays to make up berry 
boxes during the winter before the busy 
sason opens. 
The I*«"i-fo<tioii i>laiit .setter and 
automatic runner cutter can be had only of 
R. M. Kellogg, Ionia, Mich. 
Among the greatest inventions of modern 
times is the \v<'e<liu}; luai hiiie. We do 
very little or no hand weeding in our straw- 
these tools, most of which I have tested, but 
that with crooked teeth, as shown in' the 
eng^raving-, is decidedly the best. Manufac- 
tured by the Z. IJreed Weeder Co., 20 Mer- 
chants' Row, Boston, Mass. 
Lakimkk St iisoiL Plow, 
For a subsoil plow that breaks the 
strata fine and accomplishes the work to the 
greatest perfection and is of itself a perfect 
ditching- machine, especially for laying tile, 
nothing equals that invented and nianufac- 
tured by the Larimer Ditchings Plow Co 
Crab Tree, West Moreland county. Pa 
Acme Harrow. 
\Ve use the "Aenie" harrow, clod 
crusher and levelor almost exclusively in 
httmg- our ground. It is a great tool, "it is 
substantially made and durable. It rolls 
and cuts the .soil fine, mashes all small 
lumps and brings all in contact with the 
atmosphere and leaves the surface perfectly 
level for rolling. If manure or sod has been 
plowed under, it does not bring it to the 
surface. Manufactured bv Duane Nash, 
Milling-ton, New Jersey. 
