GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
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A RHODE ISLAND FIELD OF THOROUGHBREDS 
"lA^RITING under date of February 23, 1909, Wm. J. Baker, of Carolina, R. I. says: "I am sending you under separate cover 
by this mail a photo of my strawberry patch. Plants were bought of you in the spring of 1908, photo taken 105 days after 
setting. No need to write a Ions story, the picture (and an order for more plants) speaks for itself. While your price is a little 
high this trip, still I would rather pay $10 per thousand for your plants than $3 for some others I have seen." 
should be about two feet long; the length of 
the boards on which the runners are to be 
SLED-RUNNER MARKING DEVICE 
spiked will depend entirely upon the width 
you intend to have your rows. For instance, 
if you intend to make your rows three feot 
apart, then the boards should be six feet long, 
and by spiking a runner on each end of the 
board and one directly in the middle, you see, 
would make the rows exactly three feet apart, 
and the device would mark three rows at a 
time. If the rows are to be three and one- 
half or four feet apart, the boards should be 
enough longer to indicate the desired spaces. 
The engravings of these devices shown here 
make the matter so plain that you may easily 
make either of them. The rows should be 
just as straight as you can possibly make 
them, as it will add greatly to the appearance 
of the field of growing plants; and it always 
pays to take care of the beauty side of 
strawberry culture. 
Setting the Plants 
BEFORE setting 
the plants, the 
roots of each 
plant should be cut 
back about one-third. 
The best way to do 
this is to take a bunch 
containing twenty or 
twenty-five plants in 
the left hand and with 
a pair of shears cut off 
the ends of the roots. 
By following this plan 
the work of pruning 
is done very quickly. 
The foliage also should 
be trimmed off, leav- 
ing only the crown-leaf. The reason we sug- 
gest the pruning of the roots is because 
wherever the root is cut it will callous and 
Pruned for Setting 
