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GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
A LOAD OF MOSS 
show here a load of moss coming from the moss marsh. This wagon contains something lilte a ton and a half of this 
material; it takes about twenty to twenty-five loads of this moss to run us one shipping season. We generally gather this 
in August and September and have special buildings for storing it until needed. 
will be found of great advantage to the fruit- 
ing bed if these directions are followed with 
great care. 
\ FTER you burn or haul the mulching off 
take a breaking plow and narrow down 
the rows by throwing a furrow from each 
side of the row into the centtr, 
"e^Rows leaving the row of plants set- 
ting on a narrow strip of sou 
between the two furrows. After this is done, 
you should take a hoe and go over each row, 
cutting out any weeds and grass. It is best 
to leave the plants pretty close together at 
this time; this will give you a chance to keep 
the best and sort out the poorest after they 
start growing again. Then take a five-shovel 
cultivator and run over the ridge which lies 
between the rows. This cultivator will level 
back the soil to its place. Then go crossways 
with a Hallock weeder or a spike-tooth har- 
row, but when the harrow is used be sure that 
the teeth slant backwards., This will make 
the ground perfectly level and draw just suf- 
ficient soil around the crowns to cover them 
so that the old plants may start their new 
root system. This will make them look like 
a newly harrowed field, and you will see no 
plants at all. But it will be only a few days 
until you will find bright green plants spring- 
ing up through the soil. Then when hoeing 
it is a good plan to cut out all of the plants 
except one hill about every twelve to fifteen 
inches. If the season is favorable, these hilb 
which are left will produce enough runners 
to fill in a good double-hedge row for the 
next season's fruiting. The cultural methods 
of the renewed bed should be just the same 
as in the case of young-set plants. 
ly/f ANY inquiries come to us asking what to 
^ do -with the runners produced by plants 
in the fruiting bed during the fruiting season. 
We never have paid any atten- 
tion to these runners more than 
to experiment by removing 
them from a few plants, and we could not 
see enough difference in favor of doing this 
work to justify the expense. 
We also have a great many letters asking 
if the runner cords on the young-set plants 
should be severed from the mother plant after 
the young plant takes root. This is not nec- 
essary as nature takes care of this work. J ust 
Runners In the 
Fruiting Bed 
