system on a level with the ground, being careful not to cover 
the crown with dirt. The Wayzata has a habit of putting up 
more than one crown, and if these crowns appear before the 
plants start runnering, they should be pruned back to a 
single crown. This will encourage runner growth. We have 
found that it is absolutely necessary to have a good, even set 
of runners on all plants. It is not necessary or advisable to 
prune your plants after first runner bud has appeared. This 
sounds like a trying piece of work, but as there is more or 
less work to be done in any strawberry patch, it only takes 
but very little time, when hoeing or removing blossom stems, 
to prune down a plant that shows signs of stooling. All blos¬ 
som stems should be removed for a period of about sixty 
days, in order to get a maximum crop of both runners and 
fruit. 
THE CARE OF THE SECOND YEAR PATCH 
When your Wayzata patch is one year old you will want to 
remove enough or all of your runner plants for a new bed, 
if you do not want to allow the plants to bear a June crop. 
You should remove all of the old blossom stems and foliage 
from these plants, and spray as soon as new foliage starts. 
These plants should be fertilized and cared for practically the 
same as a spring set patch. It is not necessary to remove 
blossom stems until a few berries have started to form. In 
this way you will gf .he bulk of your June crop of blossoms 
at one time over your patch. 
If you do not remove all runner plants, and want to let 
this patch bear a June crop you should not cultivate or hoe 
these plants or disturb the ground any more than possible, 
while digging outside plants for new setting. Any weeds or 
foul growth in the patch should be dug by hand weeding. 
A good application of phosphate fertilizer applied in August 
or early September will help produce a larger berry crop the 
following June. After the June crop is picked this year-old 
patch should be thinned out and well hoed and cultivated, and 
will bear a crop again the same fall. 
It is always necessary to spray or dust a strawberry patch 
of any variety. Your first spray should be applied as soon 
as the new growth starts in the spring, and continued at inter¬ 
vals of from ten days to two weeks, until the plants are allowed 
to set fruit. We use Calcium Arsenic or Arsenic of Lead and 
Bordeaux mixture in a combined spray or dust, in equal 
amounts of 3 lbs. each to 50 gallons of water or in dust form 
the same number of pounds to 25 pounds of hydrated lime. 
A spray or dust of these proportions will kill all leaf rollers, 
chewing insects or worms that feed on strawberries, and also 
prevent leaf rust or leaf spot from getting a start in the 
patches. It has also been found by experiment that Pyrethium 
dust can be used in fruiting patches for the control of leaf 
roller. This is a non poisonous dust and can be used with 
safety, even while fruit is ripening. 
Any further information as to the caring or growing of 
strawberry plants that I have not mentioned in this list, will 
be given to the best of my ability, on request for same. 
While the care of and growing of strawberry plants will 
be different in each locality where different climatic conditions 
