GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
CopyriBht 1014, by R. M. KelloBg Co., Three Rivers, Mieli. 
A BOX OF HAVERLAND, ONE OF THE UNIVERSAI, FAVORITES 
TJAVERLAND is one of the greatest of the plstlllates of the mid-season, and has won wide-spread popu- 
larity among: strawberry growers. After twenty-five years of selection and restriction of tli s variety, 
we can with aijsolute confidence recommend growers e\erywliere to give to this variety a large portion of 
the space at their command. The Haverl.and yields a long, large berry, bright crimson on the sun side, shad- 
ing to a liglit red on tiie under side; ratlier full and round at the stem end. gradually tapering to an obtuse 
point. The seeds are br'ght yellow and just prominent enougli to increase the handsome appearance of the 
berry, over which the calyx gracefully falls. No other berry of our acquaintance presents a more beautiful 
and tempting appearance in the box than does the Haverland. The foliage is tall, of spreading habit, with 
a long, dark leaf. The Haverland makes strong productive plants which produce large crops under all 
conditions of soil and climate: indeed, so productive is it that the berries lie in windrows, and render picking 
a dcliglit. We advise a generous setting of this great Pistillate. Grown at Three Rivers and Twin Falls. 
work should be done in the spring at the same 
time when you are removing the mulching 
which lies directly on top of the rows. Raking 
up the mulching against the rows will leave a 
bare space of ground between the rows, which 
should be cultivated every week or ten days 
until berries are ready to pick. At this time 
cultivation should be more often, as the pickers 
will pack the soil while gathering the fruit. It 
will be all the better if these spaces are cul- 
tivated every two or three days during the en- 
tire picking season. 
The heavy coating of mulching along the 
rows will prevent the escape of moisture there. 
It also will prevent the intrusion of weeds and 
grass, and the dust mulch made by repeated 
cultivation will hold the moisture between the 
rows. 
The spring cultivation in the fruiting beds 
will perform the same functions as it does 
when cultivating new-set plants; that is, it will 
make conditions favorable to bacteria, aid in 
retaining moisture, eliminate weeds, and it will 
in every way assist the plants in perfecting a 
full and profitable crop of berries. The fruit 
will be much larger and of better color than 
could be possible without cultivation. 
A progressive fruit grower would not think 
of trying to grow tree or bush fruits without 
cultivating from early spring until after the 
fruit was all gathered, and if fruit trees with 
their long tap roots and lateral roots extending 
deeply into the soil must be cultivated in order 
to get best results, how mrch more important 
it must be that strawberries, with nothing but 
fibrous roots, should be cultivated. 
Strawberry growers who mulch during the 
early winter and cultivate between the fruiting 
rows during spring and summer never need 
have any anxiety about dry weather shortening 
the crop. 
The results of our experimental work along 
this line have been so satisfactory and the 
outcome so valuable that it now seems absurd 
to us for anyone to try to grow a record crop 
of fancy berries with no other souice of mois- 
lure retainer than mulching. 
We give here a few rules which should be 
observed when cultivating the fruiting bed. 
Start cultivation as early in the spring as soil 
will permit. At this time of the year the lower 
soil is filled with moisture, and the earlier 
cultivation is begun the less moisture will 
escape. This early cultivation will prevent a 
waste of the very thing which goes to make 
the berries. 
The first cultivation may be with the five- 
tooth cultivator, going four or Ave inches deep. 
Follow this with the twelve-tooth cultivator so 
the soil will be smoothed down level. 
Do not cultivate while the plants are in bloom 
if the top soil is dry, as this creates too much 
dust which, in our judgment, interferes with 
pollenation. But you may cultivate after rains 
while the plants are blooming, but never stir 
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