. Kellogg's great crops of small fruits : and how he grows them. Nurseries (Horticulture) Michigan Ionia Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs. for $ It does the work faster than any other machine that will do it equally well. The only re- quirements are that the ground shall be properly fitted by rolling and reasonably free from sod, straw, or any- thing- which Ready for Covering. would g-ather on the edges of the blades in quantity so as to tear the cone to pieces. Small stones do not interfere if not too many. An experiment in setting- alternate rows with Perfection plant setter show
. Kellogg's great crops of small fruits : and how he grows them. Nurseries (Horticulture) Michigan Ionia Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs. for $ It does the work faster than any other machine that will do it equally well. The only re- quirements are that the ground shall be properly fitted by rolling and reasonably free from sod, straw, or any- thing- which Ready for Covering. would g-ather on the edges of the blades in quantity so as to tear the cone to pieces. Small stones do not interfere if not too many. An experiment in setting- alternate rows with Perfection plant setter showed a plain difference of at least twenty-five per cent in favcr of those set on the cones. This increase, I estimate, will entirely pay for setting and cultivating plants for the season, giving a profit of very many times its cost. If given good care the tool will last a life time. An absolute necessity. I wish to im- press the necessity of loosening the earth around the plant by cultivating with weed- ing- machine immediately after plants are set, so that capillary action will bring the water up above the roots and collect under the loose earth or dust mulch and nourish the plant during the trying ordeal of transplant- ing- and becoming established. "Where you step around the plant to firm it about the roots you have left the particles so close to- g-ether that the water draws up to surface with great rapidity to be carried off with sun and wind. I do not wait a single hour after plants are set before cultivating-. Leaving' the ground without cultiva- tion for a few days in a dry time kills and stunts more plants than any other negli- gence you are liable to commit. To have a boy drop plants ahead of the setter often leaving them five minutes in bright sun and drying- winds is sure death or permanent injury. Don't do it. Put a piece of manilla paper in the bottom of a basket and pour in a quart of water and then open the bunches of plants and set the roots in it and take
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