B 
FERTILITY. 
The plant growth of the strawberry all returns 
to the soil, hence it does not remove a great amount 
of fertility from it, yet it is necessary that the land 
be rich so that the plant can become well rooted ; 
otherwise it cannot yeild a large amount of tine 
fruit. Land that will produce an average crop of 
corn will bring a good yield of berries; but an av- 
erage of three hundred bushels is only produced 
on very rich, highly manured, or highl}- fertilized 
land. 
FERTILIZER. 
Thoroughly decomposed barnyard manure con- 
tains all that is needed on any soil. Eighteen hun- 
dred pounds of bone meal, seventy-five bushels of 
wood ashes, eight hundred pounds of any com- 
plete fertilizer, or a less quantity of each, per acre, 
will be found valuable, but not equal to good ma- 
nure. 
PREPARATION. 
Plow as deep as the soil will admit so as to 
bring but little subsoil to the surface. A well ma- 
nured piece of ground plowed in the fall, replowed 
in the spring, makes a preparation not to be ex- 
celled. Spring plowing with a top dressing of well 
decomposed barnyard manure well dragged in 
makes an excellent preparation. Plowing under 
strong manure in the spring will answer very well 
