24 GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co.. Three Rivers* Mich. 
S. E. Abbott Sold $200.00 Worth of Berries from this Quarter Acre 
THIS is an illustration of a quarter of an acre of Thoroughbreds at "Hillcrest," the rural home of S. E. Abbott, of 
East Aurora, N. Y. In mulching them both buckwheat straw and strawy manure were used. Mr. Abbott writes 
us that the yield from the patch was 1,560 quarts (not counting the large quantity of which no account was made), but 
adds: "Had I covered the entire field with buckwheat straw, I am confident we would have picked from 2,000 to 2,200 
quarts. The lowest sold for 10 cents and the highest 16 cents— an average of 12J^ cents. AH were sold in well-filled 
baskets and stamped 'Hillcrest Berries'." 
THE hill system simply involves the setting of mother plants as close as you wish them. The runners are pinched 
or cut off before the nodes are formed. When grown in this manner and the work is to be done by hand» the rows 
may be placed as close as twenty-four inches apart and the plants set twelve to fifteen inches apart in the row. 
THE single-hedge row is formed by allowing enough runner plants to set to make a continuous line of plants, and is 
a splendid method to follow. 
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