About one third of my customers show their neigh- 
bors and friends the large plants with berries and tell 
about the heavy yield they get because they under- 
stand how to water them; some customers learn after 
one or two failures; others never do. 
For those persons, I will make a watering chart 
so they will understand watering better. Some soil 
will require one half or two times as much water, and 
wind or moist air might make as much difference. 
I plant them in a ditch and run the water down 
the row slowly about fifteen minutes. Of course, 
one fourth of a day wouldn’t hurt them but short- 
rooted plants can’t use excess water. 
Water varies mostly with temperature. 
Average daily temperature — 
40 degrees once or twice a week 
50 4s 3 times a week 
60 “ once a day 
70 “ twice a day 
80 sf 2 to 3 times a day 
90 $s 3 or 4 times a day 
100 as 4 times a day 
110 W 5 times a day 
These plants will not need to be watered so often 
when they grow larger roots, but in summer, they 
should stand in mud once every three or four days 
for top production. I generally run the water around 
them for two hours each time. Once in a while, it 
might run all night. 
Spraying 
Most of the spraying done is useless, except for 
the water it contains. 
When evergreens get full of spiders, give the 
trees a heavy sprinkling and they will take care of 
themselves until they are dry again. Then sprinkle 
again until spiders are few and far between. 
When ash trees get full of borers, give them 
plenty of water for three or four years and they 
will whip the borers. Many other trees will do the 
same. 
When cucumber bugs eat the plants, the soil 
has insufficient lime and perhaps water. If these 
are provided, cucumbers grow well, especially in 
well manured ground. 
Many plants; such as, cabbage, cauliflower, broc- 
coli, lettuce, celery, peas, beets, cherries, plums, 
etc., like lime. Elm, linden, and other plants like 
small amounts of it, although it will kill blueberries 
and make acid loving plants look sick. 
Strawberry plants like lots of water and phos- 
phates; nearly all trees and plants like small 
amounts of it. 
Our soil here is rich in potash but sometimes 
bulbs respond to feeding extra potash. 
The plants that do not respond to lime often 
like sulphur. 
