Photograph of section of hedge row 
board the distance the rows are to be apart, and 
nail shafts or handles on the top to draw it with. 
A man can draw it all day without fatigue. The 
object of using a thin board is to make it bend and 
accommodate itself to the uneven surface of the 
ground. Get the first row perfectly straight and 
let one runner go in the last mark as a guide. 
This will make all the rows exactly so far apart, so 
that late in the season when your plants get 
larger you can adjust the cultivator so as to do 
thorough work by going once in the row. 
The Marker 
There are four methods of growing strawberries: 
The hill or single plants, the hedge row, half mat- 
ted row and full matted row. 
HIIvI< CUI^TTIRE. 
Hill culture may be defined as a method of 
consolidating many small plants into one very 
large plant and many small berries into one large 
berry. As a rule, when you cut off a runner and 
check the plant from multiplying itself in that 
way, it will, if in full vigor, then try to multiply 
itself by seeds or fruit and proceed to form a new 
crown and fruit buds and m this way will build 
itself up to immense proportions. We have often 
had plants so large a bushel basket could not be 
placed over them without doubling up the leaves 
and they will produce from two to four quarts of 
very large, high flavored and bright colored ber- 
ries to the plant. 
The conditions for hill culture are that 
plants must be in strong fruiting vigor. Common 
plants will not stool up but make too many run- 
ners and add to the work of keeping them off. 
The soil must be very rich and high culture given. 
Do riot try to grow in hills on poor ground. 
iltnre in out experimental garden. 
Set plants in rows 3° inches apart and i8 
inches apart in the row or 30x30 and cultivate both 
ways; cut runners before they make leaves or have 
a chance to strike root. The runners are kept off 
throughout the season. 
THE HEDGE ROW. 
The hedge row gives very nearly as good 
results as hill culture and involves less labor. The 
plants are set in rows from 30 to 36 inches apart 
and 20 to 30 inches in the row. Those making 
runners freely the latter distance. The first run- 
ners should be thrown around so as to fill the rows 
in a straight line and let the plants stand six to 
eight inches apart and then all later runners are 
cut off very fast with tlie rolling runner cutter, 
which can be readily attached to tlie cultivator, 
but we prefer to attach it to a garden wheel hoe or 
any one can easily make a wooden wheel and 
frame which would answer the purpose well. The 
Hill Culture— fotir quart plant. 
