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CORN CLUB BOfS 10 601 BERRIES New Work Undertaken by Some of State's Alert Young Farmers. SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS Ctemson College Has Sent Boys Directions For Strawberry Culture That Will Be Ueeful to AduK Farmers and Surburban Dwellers as Well,? Advice on All Steps, From Preparing Soil to Packing Crates. Eighty South Carolina corn club boys, eighty of the best in the State, are adding strawberry culture to their work. These are the boys who by their corn club work last year, won scholarships to Clemson College for the summer course. During the course they were promised that instructions for growing strawberries would be segt to them in the fall and tiffi boys expressed themselves as eager to try small patches of the luscious fruit as part of their dub 4-Tlfr'-1 jdVipTui 4^ P. J. C rider, associate profeeeor of horticulture at Ciemson College, has nfMnaMil arvH aunt tho hirwj a iW rrf instruction* for strawberry culture. These instructions are simple and brief, but cover the subject in all important branches. They win be useful to any who desire to grow strawberries and this shook! include a large number of suburban dwellers as well as fanners. Prof. Glider's directions are as follows: doll for Strawberries. Any kind except bottom land and stiff clay. Preparation of Land. Break deeply, smooth the surface we 8. and lay off rows as tor cotton. When ready to plant, knock Che bed down to a level FsrtHWng. FertMte heavily with table manure* either broadcast or tn the furrow, before planting .Each tail Just before mnVbtng, apply broadcast a mixture of about 2S0 pounds cottonseed meal 400 pounds kainlt, and 260 pounds add phosphate, these being Che amounts per acre. (totting Wants. Set plants in straight line* 18 inches apart tn row. Place plants in rather large holes with roots snread anert and uack sail firmly about them. Keep roots oi , plants motet until planting. Place name of variety on a stake at end oi I roar. Notching. As soon as plants are set, cover ground all about plants with heavy coating of pine needles or oat i straw. This holds modstnne and keepe berries clean In spring. Apply this mulch each year thereafter In September. Cultivating. Begin cultivation put after berries are gathered. Cultivate as for cotton, keeping a knee layer of soil on top sod all weeds and grass removed. i Treatment of Runners First 8w? mer. Let runneis take root along rows so as to get plants for a new j?tch. Setting e New Patch. In September use new plants In art ting out a new patch, following same method as be? K tore. 1 Treatment for Second Summer. . Give same treatment as Aral summer, except that all runnere must be cut off (unless more new plants an wanted). Repeat this the third summer. Treatment for Third Fall. Plow up your old strawberry patch. Strath berry plants will not produce death able berries after the third crop. Gathering Pratt. Pinch berries from stalks without bruising, leaving stems on. Go over patch every other day, sometimes every day. Pick boh riea when they are red, while yet firm. Gather in standard quart strawberry baskets. The basket Is sold with the berries. . Sorting. While picking, place the larger berries in one basket, the second size In another, and the smallest size (which should not be marketed) In a third. This is very Important. Naming the Grades. Name the first grade "Extra Fancy" and the second grade "Taney." Write name of grade. variety, and your own name cm each basket. Uee quart aire strawberry baskets, 82 to the crate, and see to It that they are neat and clean. Get prices an crates and baskets from manufacturers and have supplies reach you in ample time. Arrangement of Berries in Basket Have every basket well filled and ar> ! ranee the berries on top in rows. Carry baskets to market In neatly packed crates. They will command attention and bring the highest priest m. 2 DRAGGING WITH AUTO 4 A Western farm paper suggests that farmers keep up their roads by hitch* lag a drag to their automobiles. The idea is to take the drag along behind the auto for a mile or two when on a trip to town, then to leave tike drag bv the roadside, to pick it up on the return trip, and to drag the other j I side of the road. It hae been tried i I with success. ?' \ m . i * * * * | wEs ^ room to i ^ to move; what we ft !" I Sport H Skirts a for m< M great! a yours U Silvern R'T'T'T'T'T" All Fresh Meats and Veg THE PEOPLI N. A. MULE # Good Thii We take parti the good th stocked for < satisfaction, guaranteed p of the best c plesure to us R. W. 1 (Successor to 1 Phone No. 143 M. F. h Has just one n ? he needs! lYou had i limit Best Market Price Paid etables on Hand in Season. E'S MARKET R, Proprietor. A nnro tn Fat I Ilgo IU Lit I icular pride in ings we have our customers' Evenr article's ure, fresh and (uality. 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