KELLOGG PLANTS FIFTY-EIGHT DAYS AFTER SETTING BY DR. W. M. WHITE, WATKINSVILLE, OA. 
and symmetrical plant development and splendid 
yields of the big, luscious fellows that are the 
pride of the true grower's heart. Be sure to 
cut or pinch off every bud before it opens, thus 
insuring your plants against pollen-exhaustion; 
for pollen-exhaustion means a yield of fruit 
deficient both in quality and quantity. 
A MOTHER important matter relates to the 
removing of runners. The work of the 
young strawberry plant is two fold — it must 
build up a strong fruit-producing organism and 
develop perfect fruit, and at the same time labor 
for the preservation of its kind. To do the 
latter it expends a tremen- 
*The""* dous amount of energy in 
Runners sending out runners that are 
in turn to become plants, 
and if it be allowed to do so it will weaken its 
fruiting powers in its efforts to increase and 
multiply plants. Thus may we understand how 
important it is that restriction be employed and 
the number of runners limited to actual require- 
ments. In the single-hedge row runners should 
be allowed to grow until the spaces in the row 
are filled in a straight line with the mother plant. 
In the double-hedge row two lines of runners 
are permitted to grow, running zig-zag from 
the mother plant. For both of these see illus- 
trations. In the hill system all runners are 
removed. Some varieties make very long run- 
ners; others short ones. But whenever a runner 
forms a bud or nodeand proceeds to strike its roots 
into the soil, it should be assisted to take quick 
root by placing a little dirt just back of the 
node. This not only aids the young plant, but 
it relieves the mother plant of the work of sup- 
plying sustenance to her young by hastening 
the "weaning" process and making the young 
plant self-sustaining. 
JUST as a young animal entering the world 
calls for food, and must have it if he is to 
grow and be strong, so the young plant must be 
fed and at the very outset of its career. As it 
gets its food from the soil particles, dissolved 
by the moisture in the soil so that it readily may 
be assimilated, it will be 
seen how necessary it is Cu1(iv»<ing 
that new and fresh particles. Plants 
laden with plant food, be 
carried to the hungry plant so that its growth 
may be continuous, unchecked and unhampered. 
This is one of the functions of cultivation — of 
stirring and moving of the soil. Another func- 
tion is the conservation of moisture in the soil 
by the creation and maintenance on the surface 
of what is so aptly called the dust mulch. This 
dust mulch forms a barrier to the escape of 
water from the soil by capillary attraction, by 
choking up the avenues of escape with fine part- 
icles of soil, and thus whatever moisture leaves 
the soil must travel through the plant itself, thus 
keeping the plant fresh, green and rigorous. 
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