GROWING STRAWBERRIES 
In selecting planting stock it is best to choose 
varieties that are doing and are selling best in 
your locality. Then only large, well rooted, 
healthy stock, capable of producing a good crop 
of berries should be selected. The cost of set¬ 
ting, hoeing and cultivating the plants, rent on 
the land, etc., will not warrant the planting of 
inferior stock that is incapable of producing a 
profitable crop of fruit. 
Proper care should be taken that the ground 
is in a good state of fertility by applying either 
barnyard manure or a complete commercial fer¬ 
tilizer before the plants are set. It is best to 
apply, the barnyard manure a year previous to 
planting, otherwise serious trouble may result 
because of additional weeds. Or else you may 
fertilize after the plants are growing well, in the 
irrigation furrow between the rows. The plow¬ 
ing under of green cover crops such as crimson 
clover, rj^e, vetch, and Austrian field peas subse¬ 
quent to setting the plants is also a very profit¬ 
able practice. 
There are several methods of setting out straw¬ 
berry plants. The one used by the large com¬ 
mercial growers is to set the plants three feet 
apart each way in the early spring. The blossoms 
are picked off the first summer and only suf¬ 
ficient runners are allowed to develop to lightly 
fill in the rows. This method requires 5000 plants 
per acre. In smaller plantings the plants are 
set one foot apart in either single or double rows 
and the runners are kept picked off. By this 
method the plants can be set any time from Octo¬ 
ber to April. And the earlier planting will pro¬ 
duce the larger crop the first year. Strawberry 
plants react greatly to frequent hoeing and culti¬ 
vation. This is very important and should not 
be neglected. 
GROWING CANEBERRIES 
Here again we advice the grower to select only 
strong, vigorous plants that can readily resist 
disease and yield a nice maximum of profit. 
With ample irrigation caneberries can be spaced 
as close as six feet apart, in rows six feet across. 
In non-irrigated sections we find that eight feet 
by eight feet is the proper spacing, with the 
exception of the Dell Sweet Evergreen which 
should be spaced from ten to twelve feet in the 
row, due to its unusual vine growth. The eight 
by eight spacing will require about 670 plants 
per acre. 
Planting should be done as early in the spring 
as the ground can be worked. After the plants 
have started to grow well it is advisable to scatter 
from ten to twenty-five pounds of chicken or 
barnyard manure around each plant and work it 
into the ground well to assure big, strong vines 
the first year. Then in the winter a second such 
application should be applied, this time for the 
fruit. 
The vines should be left on the ground the first 
summer and must be put on the trellis at least 
by the time that the leaf buds start opening in 
the spring. The trellis can be made any time 
during the winter. The vines must never be 
trellised in bunches, but should be spread over as 
much surface as possible. 
