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THREE RIVERS. MICH. 
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Preparing for Second Crop 
strawberry plants should not be permitted to fruit more than two years. 
After the first crop has been picked, the foliage of standard varieties should be mowed off and removed 
from the patch. The rows should then be narrowed down by plowing a furrow from each side of the row 
leaving a ridge or back-furrow between the rows. This should be worked down with harrow and 
cultivator until the furrows have been filled and the ground again made level. A spike-tooth harrow 
may be used but the teeth should be set with a back slant so as not to tear out the plants when crossing 
the rows. In small gardens this work may be done with spade and garden rake. Continue working the 
ground until the surface is smooth. This will slightly cover the crowns and the plants which remain 
in the rows will soon come up through the fine covering of soil. Apply a top-dressing of manure, con- 
tinue to cultivate the same as the first year, and your second crop will be fully as profitable as the first. 
After fruiting the second year plow the plants under and plant the ground to some other crop 
at least one year before again setting to strawberries. 
The Everbearers 
The everbearers are so exceedingly productive and their fruiting season covers such a long period 
that it is absolutely necessary that the soil contain an abundance of plant-food and berry building material. 
A heavy dressing of manure should be plowed under and thoroughly worked into the soil before plants 
are set and a top dressing of manure applied soon after setting, spreading the coarse material close 
around the plants under the foliage to serve as mulching when they begin fruiting. 
The season the plants are set, all blossoms should be removed from Superb and Peerless until the 
latter part of June and from Perfection and Progressive until the early part of July, after which they may 
be allowed to fruit to full capacity. They should then fruit heavily until freezing weather. The fol- 
lowing year they will fruit abundantly from early summer until late fall with the exception of a short 
rest period during July. 
The everbearers may be grown either hill, single-hedge or double-hedge row system, but the hill 
system has proved the most profitable. It is unnecessary to mow the foliage off the everbearers al- 
though this may be done if desired the second year after the early summer crop has been picked, when 
the plants enter their rest period. If this is done prepare the bed the same as for standard varieties. 
If these simple instructions are followed, the everbearers will prove exceedingly profitable either for 
home use or market. 
Crop Rotation 
Crop rotation is very essential in strawberry growing. After plants have fruited two years, they 
should be plowed under and the ground planted to some other crop. This may be done as soon as they 
have finished their second crop. 
Cantaloupes make an ideal crop for rotation because they do not draw heavily upon the fertility of 
the soil and their viny nature keeps the soil mellow. Two years in strawberries, one year in cantaloupes 
then back to strawberries, with a legume crop to rest and replenish the soil once every five years, ferti- 
lizing each year, makes the very best program of rotation for the strawberry grower. 
Any of the legumes — clover, cow-peas, soy beans, velvet beans, vetch or alfalfa, are ideal crops for 
rotation because they add great quantities of humus and nitrogen to the soil. Vegetables or farm crops 
also may be used to advantage as rotation crops. 
Irrigation 
Irrigation is an insurance policy on the crop, therefore, if you are situated so that you can irrigate 
you will find it highly profitable to do so. One can realize only through actual experience, the increased 
profits which result from irrigation. 
The two systems most generally used are the overhead or sprinkling system and the ditch or gravity 
system. With the overhead system, the water is applied in the form of a fine rain. With the ditch 
system shallow furrows or corrugations are made between the rows into which water is run until the 
entire ground is wet. The water may be obtained either from a well, lake, river or city supply. It may be 
applied during the heat of the day if desired without any injury to the crop, however if applied at night 
the evaporation is less. The ground should be cultivated as soon after irrigation as conditions will permit. 
We have in operation on the Kellogg Farm, 120 acres of Skinner Overhead Irrigation which was 
selected by us as the best after a thorough testing of several different systems. Our experience with 
Skinner Irrigation has been so satisfactory that we recommend it to our customers with absolute con- 
fidence that it will prove equally satisfactory and profitable both for the small home garden and the 
large commercial strawberry grower. For irrigating the small strawberry or vegetable garden or the 
lawn and shrubbery, Kellogg's Rain-Maker, manufactured for us by the Skinner Irrigation Company, 
is unequalled as it furnishes positive insurance against drouth. For description and price, see Page 63. 
IN the spring of 1920 I set 1.250 Kellogg Pedigree Plants. The varieties were Kellogg's Premier. Dr. Burrill, Magic Gem, Kel- 
logg's Prize and Kellogg's Big Late. Plants made excellent growth until August, when a severe hail storm which caused over 
$50 000 00 damage in our County, stripped their foliage giving them a serious set back. In spite of this, they produced 600 quarts 
of fine berries this season which brought 25 and 30 cents per quart with ready sale. I follow the Kellogg Way and find it most 
profitable I intend to order 1,200 more Kellogg Plants in time to be sure of getting them next spring." James C. Tanrance, Kansas. 
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