FAI,MER. 
EXTRA EARLY. Bi-sexual. Berries are deep 
crimson, a mild rich table berry, quUe firm, good for 
market or home use. The foliage Is light green, grows 
tall and protects the bloom from danger of frost. 
This Is the third year of selection and It Is showing 
up magnificently. 
It is a fine test of the fruiting vigor of a plant. 
If it is exhausted in its organism, when you 
cut a runner, it will throw out another runner 
and often you will find it exceedingly difficult 
to make it build up fruit crowns. Of course, 
all plants will make runners more freely if 
the soil contains a large amount of nitrogen. 
The soil must be very rich and the plants 
should be set in rows 24 to 30 inches apart 
and about 20 inches apart in the row. It is a 
waste of land to set them three or four feet 
apart because the ground would not be fully 
occupied. 
TEXAS. 
EXTRA EARLY. Bl-sexuai A splendid mate tor 
any pi.<:tillate of its season. It stools up wonderfully, 
developinR an extra big crown system. aHo a large 
healthy foliage, which enables It to mature the big 
crop of highly colored berries. We fell In love with 
it deeper than ever last year; its berries are deep 
red. of extra high quality, and Is a good shipper, 
ripening so early that It catches the high prices. The 
berries have such a delicate appearance when nicely 
arranged in the box that the very sight of them 
makes one hungry. 
The demand for plants was so great last year 
our stock was sold out before the season was half 
over, nearly every order called for Texas, and the 
indications are that there will be a still greater 
scramble tor them this year than ever, as it seems 
to succeed everyr.here. We have had it under close 
restriction for three years, making big gains In all 
points each season. 
SINGLE HEDGE ROW. 
The advantage is that the plants will ar- 
range their foliage so each leaf shall have full 
sunshine and a free circulation of air all 
around it. Sometimes the plants stool up too 
much to permit this and then as good results 
do not follow. The fruit buds are generally 
fully matured in the fall. This is of the ut- 
most importance in growing high grade fruit 
and here they have plenty of time. It makes 
it easy to hoe and conserve moisture and the 
saving over working in the matted row is 
more than the cutting of runners. 
THE SINGLE HEDGE ROW. 
The single hedge row is an ideal way of 
growing berries. For hand tillage the rows 
need not be over two feet apart, but for horse 
culture at least 30 inches and plants set about 
20 inches apart. Let one runner start out each 
way and form one plant on each side. This 
makes the plants set about seven inches apart. 
Then we keep oflf all other runners and keep 
the plants, like drilled corn, in a straight row. 
The runners can nearly all be cut with a sharp 
hoe or rolling runner cutter as shown in pic- 
ture. It is a flat disc ten inches in diameter 
attached to the cultivator by an outrigger 
with castor action and has a leaf guard which 
picks the leaves up and pushes them aside and 
cuts the runners by rolling over them. It fits 
the i2-tooth Planet, Jr.. cultivator, but will 
work on any by having holes drilled to bolt 
the outrigger on. We prefer to bolt it to a 
wheel hoe frame because we can control it 
much better and make it dodge in and out to 
get the runners. We use it this way altogeth- 
er. Use a file to keep the disc sharp. There 
seems to be an instinct in plants to send the 
runner out in an open space where they will 
get air and sunshine, and so you will see a 
very laree majority go across the alley so the 
cutter will get nearly all of them and the bal- 
ance can be cut out with a hoe while you ar« 
weed fishing. 
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