R. M. KELLOGG'S GREAT CROPS OF 
Carrie 
up the leaves, and they will produce from two to 
four quarts of very large, high flavored and bright 
colored berries 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 runners and 
add to the work of keeping them off. The soil 
must be very rich and high culture given. Do not 
try to grow in hills on poor ground. 
Set plants in rows 30 inches apart and 18 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 oflF 
throughout the season, and cultivation continues 
until the ground freezes in the fall. 
which can be readily attached to the 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 
runner cutter is a steel disk ten inches in diameter 
with leaf guard and out rigger for attaching it to 
the cultivator. Price Ji. 50. 
The advantages of growing in hills and hedge row are 
that each plant has plenty of light with space be- 
tween the rows for abundant root pasturage. 
Nearly the entire surface can be stirred with the 
cultivator and kept covered with the loose earth 
mulch so plants are never injured by drouth and 
all weeds destroyed with the least possible amount 
of handwork, and cutting runners with the wheel 
requires very little time. 
When the runners are cut the plant not only makes 
new crowns and buds but it makes more roots and 
sends them down deep and far out in search of 
food to bring their great berries to perfection. 
The plants produce heavy crops for several 
years without re-setting because they have plenty 
of roots to sustain them. There are no more seeds 
in a large berry than in a small one and in this 
way nearly every berry grows to a large size so 
that they are picked as soon as ripe; and as there 
are only comparatively few seeds maturing at any 
one time exhaustion in seed bearing is in a great 
measure prevented; and thus the bed can be 
fruited three or four years without re-setting. 
Rnnner Cutter on Caltlvator 
THE HEDGE ROW. 
The hedge row gives very nearly as good re- 
sults as hill culture and it 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 the rolling runner cutter 
RolUng Runner Cutter and Leaf Guard 
THE HALF MATTED ROW. 
This is the next best way to grow berries. 
Make rows three and one-half feet apart and set 
plants r8 to 24 inches in the row according to var- 
iety and fertility of soil. Keep off all runners 
until about the first of July so as to subdue weeds 
and get plants well established. Then let umners 
start and form a row one foot wide and after this 
use the rolling runner cutter and clip off all run- 
ners as fast as they come out into the alley taking 
care not to let plants set closer than eight to ten 
inches apart. You will then have a large beauti- 
ful row in the fall. 
THE FULL MATTED ROW. 
Probably three-fourths of all strawberries are 
grown in this way, but progressive fruit growers 
are fast finding out that it is a mistake. It is only 
justifiable when the land is too poor to grow them 
m other ways. Make rows four feet apart and set 
plants 18 to 24 inches in the row. Let the culti- 
vator go in the same direction every time so as to 
throw the runners around without tangling them 
and as Ihey root narrow up the cultivator. 
The objections to the full matted row are that 
when the row is full a strip of ground some twenty 
inches wide is left which cannot be cultivated. 
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