PLANT PRODUCTION 
A great deal lias been said about the Wayzata not 
being a plant maker. Under favorable conditions the 
Wayzata makes enough plants for a good fruiting row 
with but little spacing. With our system of growing 
Wayzatas, we get from seventy-five to one hundred 
and fifty thousand saleable plants per acre. The princi¬ 
ple factor in growing plants is early setting and good 
care for the first month after setting. Never neglect 
your patch of Everbearings. Remember they start 
fruiting within sixty days after setting so naturally 
they require a little more attention than the June berry 
or the one-crop varieties. 
HINTS ON GROWING OF THE WAYZATA 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
The first consideration in setting a patch of Wayzata Straw¬ 
berry plants is the lay of your land, and the condition of your 
soil. For any Everbearing one should avoid low, marshy 
ground, as these are the first to get early frosts. Fall plowing 
has proved to be of great benefit for raising strawberry plants. 
It is necessary to have a great amount of humus in the soil, 
either in legume crops or barnyard manure plowed under. It 
will always be profitable to add commercial fertilizer to any 
strawberry patch. Nitrogen and Phosphate being the two 
most needed. This can be applied, either before setting, or 
along the row system, after the plants show new growth. 
This can be used in amounts of from ten to twenty pounds 
each to the 100 feet of row. If applied after setting, it is best 
to put it on equal applications 15 to 20 days apart, being care¬ 
ful not to get it on the foliage, or closer than three to four 
inches from the plants. This can be broadcasted and hoed 
into the soil, or drilled along the sides of the row, with one 
of the many fertilizing machines. 
In setting strawberry plants, your ground should be worked 
down to a good seed bed, either planked or rolled to firm the 
top of the soil. Rows should be spaced from two and one-half 
to four feet, depending on the requirements of the individual 
grower. Plants may be set from 12 to 14 inches apart in the 
row. The plants should be pruned down to a single crown, 
removing all but two or three of the center leaves, and the 
roots trimmed to a length of two and a half to three inches. 
It is best to use a setting trowel, making hole big enough for 
your root spread, setting your plants with the top of the root 
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 run¬ 
ners 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 blossom stems 
should be removed for a period of about sixty days, in order 
to get a maximum crop of both runners and fruit. 
