A FRUIT BASKET OF HAVERLAND BERRIES 
UAVERLAND is one of our great pistillate varieties of the mid-season: is wonderfully productive of largre. lonff berries, bright 
^ * crimson in color, very round at the stem end, gradually tapering to a point. This pistillate wins its way in all markets, and 
once it has been well introduced, it holds a prominent place in the lists of growers. For the season of 1913 we have grown an 
extraordinarily large crop of this variety, for after twenty-three years' experience with this variety we realize the necessity of 
having an ample crop if our patronsare to be fully supplied. In some sections of the country the Haverland is grown in great- 
er numbers than any other variety ever originated, and it is safe to say that it will succeed practically everywhere in this land. 
The Value of 
Barnyard Manure 
drained land, by preparing it as described in the 
early pages of this book. 
BARNYARD manure is one of the strawberry 
grower's most valuable assets. Therefore, 
he should give great attention to conserving this 
fertility and seeing to it that it is properly ap- 
plied to the soil. The average strawberry grow- 
er, of course, will hardly have use 
for the manure spreader, although 
wherever the spreader is available 
it should be employed, both as a matter of econ- 
omy as to the fertility itself, and to its greater 
value where it is evenly spread over the surface 
of the ground. But where the manure spreader 
is not available, the time spent in spreading the 
manure by hand will be repaid many times. After 
the manure is spread comes the breaking up of 
the soil. In doing this work be careful to see 
that every particle of hard soil is worked up and 
into as mellow a state as it is possible to get it. The 
depth to which one should plow depends upon the 
nature and formation of the soil. Where the soil 
is deep one may go as deeply as eight inches, but 
in shallower soils the depth should not exceed 
from four to six inches. 
FOR our present purpose we shall consider the 
three soils most common the world over, 
namely, those having a sandy nature, those in 
which clay predominates, and the so-called black 
soil. In the mere matter of furnishing plant food 
to these soils the methods we have 
referred to will do for all of them, 
but from the mechanical point of view * 
the treatment will be quite different. In the case 
of soils where the sandy quality predominates the 
surface should be rolled and thoroughly compact- 
ed so that the plants may rest in a hrm and close- 
fitting garment of earth. While it is true that 
the roots of plants must have air, it also is true 
that they must not be given too much air, and 
unless the loose, coarse sand or sandy loam is com- 
E acted either by rolling or floating, the roots will 
e over-supplied with air. However, rolling nev- 
er is done if the soil is at all wet. To do so 
means the caking of the surface, which is one of 
the things always to be avoided. Whenever roll- 
ing produces a "pasty" effect, leave the rolling 
out and wait until the soil becomes crumbly when 
pressed together in the hand before attempting 
to roll at all. 
JUST the reverse treatment is true of clay soil 
so far as compacting goes, for it is the nature 
of clay to compact itself, and instead, therefore, 
of rolling the soil, we need to pulverize it thor- 
oughly before the plants are set and stir it fre- 
quently while plants are growing in 
order that the process of decay of the J?,"** *" .Prepare 
vegetable matter in the soil may be ^ 
normally maintained. Therefore, cultivationshould 
be deeper in clay than in sandy soils. As a rule. 
