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R. M. KELLOaO'S GREAT CROPS OF 
plant and turninfj nian.v small berries into 
large berries. Every time you cut off a run- 
ner it throws the growth back to the mother 
plant and a new plant, which we call a crown 
starts out on the side of the original one, 
building it up to mammoth proportions. 
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TIME TO SET PLANTS. 
The time to set plants is in the spring. I 
never got a great paying crop of berries 
until I had grown big plants with large roots 
and a great many of them. I know there 
are many people who say they can set plants 
in August and September and get a good 
crop next sea.son. If you mean you can get 
a few berries for your own table and could 
not have them unless you set a few in the 
garden in the fall it's all right, set them 
whenever you can, but when you are talk- 
ing of setting plants in the fall for market 
as money makers it's " off." If you can do 
it you know more about the business than 
I do. I admit that in the South where 
plants grow pretty much all winter the 
chances are good for a paying crop, but not 
in the North. You can set plants in October 
and November and shade them with a 
little straw or mulch and pick the blos- 
soms next spring and by fall they will be 
monstrous plants, and next season look 
for an immense crop. 
Tln'r«^ are* throe methods of growing 
strawberries, hill culture, half matted row 
and full matted row, each having advan- 
tages and disadvantages. We will first con- 
sider 
HILL < I LTUHE. 
By this method all runners are cut off as 
soon as they appear throughout the sea.son. 
It might be designated as the process of con- 
solidating many small plants into one large 
(Note.— The above plant was photographed Sept. 
Z3, showiiiE- five feet one inch. Nov. 10 other plants 
showed seven feet nine inches in circumference.) 
Xew roots are eoiistaiitly starting- 
and going down deeper and deeper and 
spreading farther out in search of food and 
moisture to bring its great load of berries to 
the highest perfection in size, color, texture 
and flavor. 
Plants on rich land have often exceeded 
the size of a bushel basket, producing over 
four quarts of berries. 
Its artvaiitages may be summed up as 
follows: 
The entire surface of ground admits of 
cultivation and the whole work of tillage 
can be done with weeding machine thereby 
conserving moisture during the most pro- 
tracted drouth and avoiding all handwork 
The field can be kept in coiilinuous heavy 
fruiting for five or six years without renew- 
ing the beds, while in the matted row it is 
necessary to plow under after one or two 
crops are taken off. The reason is that it 
is the seeds that exhaust the plant. There 
are as many seeds in a small berry as 
in a large one. By this ilM-tllo<I nearly all 
berries are large and are picked as soon as 
ripe while in the matted row each plant gen- 
erally produces a large number of berries 
too small to pick and thus great numbers of 
berries are left on the vines to rot, tints sap- 
ping the vitality of the plant. 
lyight and air are the great promoters of 
plant growth. In the thick matted row 
much of the foliage is shut in from the light 
and cannot perform its duties in assimilat- 
ing the food taken up by the roots and the 
development of fruit is greatly retarded. 
