GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1912 by R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
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and the two branch farms in the Far West, we 
feel that we can be of great service to strawberry 
growers everywhere in the way of selecting vari- 
eties particularly adapted to the locality in which 
they are to be grown. We shall be very glad to 
assist anyone in making up a list of varieties that 
will be the most profitable to the grower. 
A Visit to Western Strawberry Folk 
DURING the past season we traveled more 
than six thousand miles through the West, 
visiting en route many of the best strawberry 
sections of that great empire. The time and 
money which this trip cost us was well spent, as 
it enabled us to learn of the splendid work and 
very large profits that are being made by vvestern 
growers, and gave us opportunity to familiarize 
ourselves with the methods of growing straw- 
berries in the Inter-mountain and Pacific-coast 
In each of the districts visited we found that 
the growers followed different systems, such as 
single-hill rows, twin-hill rows and the matted- 
row system. We were very much impressed 
with the twin-hill-row plan, and judging from 
what growers told us it is by far the most profit- 
able system. We call it the twin-hill row, be- 
cause rows are set in pairs about 20 inches apart, 
with a 30-inch space between every pair of rows. 
In the districts where irrigation is practiced the 
water furrow is made in the center of the20-mch 
space that is, the water is run between the twin- 
rows until the soil around the plants is made quite 
moist After the plants develop foliage sufficient- 
ly heavy to shade most of the 20-inch space be- 
tween the twin rows the water is run in the fur- 
rows in the 30-inch spaces. Some growers use 
the 30-inch spaces for water from the start, mak- 
ing a shallow furrow on each side of the twin 
rows. The plants are set 15 inches apart in the 
rows. Where these distances are obsei-ved 16, 750 
plants are required for an acre. Some of the 
more progressive growers secure an average of 
one quart of berries per plant per year from an 
entire acre, or an average of 16,750 quarts, and 
many of them make as much as $1,000.00 per acre 
each season. Indeed, some of the growers re- 
ported even larger cash returns. 
The single-hill-row system also is a profitable 
way to grow berries in the West. Under this 
system rows are made a uniform distance of 30 
inches apart, and plants are set 15 inches apart in 
the rows. This arrangement requires only 14,000 
plants to the acre. While this method requires 
fewer plants, and there is a saving in that re- 
spect, the fact remains that the grower doesn't 
secure so many quarts per acre and his actual 
profits are considerably less as a result. 
The matted-row system is not at all satisfac- 
tory. And our observation leads us to say that it 
would be the part of wisdom for Western growers 
—and this applies with equal force to our Eastern 
friends— to discontinue the matted-row as a sys- 
tem for growing strawberries. One great trouble 
with the matted-row is that growers who fol- 
low this plan most invariably allow their plants to 
mat together too thickly, which results in the pro- 
duction of small berries and fewer of them. An- 
other tendency, where strawberries are grown 
by this system, is to permit them to fruit year 
aifter year for six or eight years, with the result 
that the field becomes so badly infested with in- 
sects as to be absolutely under their control. In 
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