. Biggle berry book; a condensed treatise on the culture of berries. Berries. To save hand hoeing, plant in rows that are s% x 2% or 2^ feet and cultivate both vi^ays until plants commence to make W. F. Allen, Jr. considerable runners and then cultivate only the wide way. By this method only one or two hoeiugs will be necessary. Md. Use Planet Jr. eleven tooth Harrow- Cultivator, teeth fine ', does not throw dirt A G. Sharp on the plant and can be 1 un very close This harrow is changeable m width and can be changed while in motion. Mass. Plant in rows four feet apart. As fast as the runners ar
. Biggle berry book; a condensed treatise on the culture of berries. Berries. To save hand hoeing, plant in rows that are s% x 2% or 2^ feet and cultivate both vi^ays until plants commence to make W. F. Allen, Jr. considerable runners and then cultivate only the wide way. By this method only one or two hoeiugs will be necessary. Md. Use Planet Jr. eleven tooth Harrow- Cultivator, teeth fine ', does not throw dirt A G. Sharp on the plant and can be 1 un very close This harrow is changeable m width and can be changed while in motion. Mass. Plant in rows four feet apart. As fast as the runners are large enough to take root let them run in the rows to the right and left so as to stand in a narrow line, A. G. SHARP A. I. Root then you can get close up to the plant with the cultivator. I do not know of any tools better than the Planet Jr. fine tooth ; this can be run close up to the plant and not injure the leaves. O. Cultivating .should be done soon after rains when the ground is soft. A special trowel for setting plants like a mason's trowel, George F. Beede wider and full at the point with extra large handle is the best tool for setting. A toothed Sunnj'side hoe is the tool for hand work. I enclose cut of trowel. N. H. I am prejudiced in favor of the good old hand hoeing. Absolutely clean cul- ture is not possible without it. By mark- Edw. W. Cone ing ground as for corn and planting so as to admit of cultiva- tion both ways, hand work may be lessened considerably. Wis Early runners make the best plants , Geo. J. Kellogg cut oflT the late runners. Wis. EDW W CONE We use one heavy fine tooth cultivator and a lighter one Horace J. Smith with fourteen teeth. There will be still some hoeing to do as well as weeding, which later, as well as the setting of runners, we do with a crew of small boys. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations m
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