SOME SPECIMENS OF BUSTER STRAWBERRIES 
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mend our customers to set largely of this- v'anVt^: w^^tre^tWronYd^nc^^^ 
and all of the work is to be done with a hoe, we 
advise setting plants 15 x 15 inches apart. This 
calls for 27,750 plants to the acre. Set at 
these distances apart the plants will be open to 
the sunshine and the air, and each plant will de- 
velop very large and vigorous roots and crowns, 
capable of producing very large quantities of ex- 
tra-large berries. Where the fields are extensive 
and the grower is to cultivate with the horse, 
rows for the hill system should be made 30 inches 
apart and the plants set 15 inches apart in the 
rows. When these distances are observed it re- 
quires 14,000 plants for one acre. 
GROWERS should utilize to the full the area 
of ground given to strawberries. Some grow- 
ers insist upon making their rows four feet apart. 
This is a great waste of land and leads to a large 
and useless expenditure of time (which is money) 
in cultivation. Incidentally, the fer- 
i7f„„,,"„. tility in the waste spaces between 
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method, from whatever point of view considered, 
is to say the least uneconomic. As we have said 
above, we do not recommend the matted- row 
system, as this system tends to produce very 
small berries and should be employed only where 
the fruit is grown for the cannery. For the sin- 
gle-hedge row and the double-hedge row that are 
to be cultivated with the horse, three feet is am- 
ple width between the rows. Then set the plants 
24 inches apartin the row, and themothei plants, 
with the two or four runner plants permitted to 
frow in accordance with the system adopted, will 
ave ample light and air in which to develop gen- 
erous crops of fine fruit. When plants are set 
3x2 feet, as here suggested, 7,250 plants are re- 
quired for an acre. 
'T'HE strawberry has few enemies in the form 
■1 of insect pests or fungous diseases. But this 
fact should never lead the grower to be unmindful 
of his duty to be at all times prepared to meet 
any troubles that may come to him from these 
sources. For any insects that eat 
holes in the leaves of the plants be 
in readiness to spray with arse- ''""Sous Enemies 
nate of lead, using three pounds of lead to 50 gal- 
lons of water. Put the lead into a three-gallon 
bucket; pour over it enough water merely to 
moisten; then pulverize the lead, adding water as 
you proceed, until the lead is a creamy paste. 
To this paste add 50 gallons of water and mix 
thoroughly. As a rule, one spraying of arsenate 
of lead will destroy any leaf-chewing insect. In 
the case of the leaf-roller arsenic should be add- 
ed. To prepare the arsenic take one pound arse- 
nic, two pounds sal soda and one gallon of water; 
boil until all are perfectly dissolved; when cool 
use 1>! pints of this solution, 2i pounds arsenate 
of lead, prepared as above described; and two 
pounds of lump lime, slaking the lime before us- 
ing, of course. This is a rank poison. 
THE remedy for fungous diseases, such as mil- 
dew, rust or blight, is lime-sulphur solution 
prepared in the proportion of two gallons of solu- 
tion to 50 gallons of water. We advise our friends 
to purchase the prepared lime-sulphur solution, 
as it is quite inexpensive on the one hand, and 
the mixture is more perfectly prepared than the 
