The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-04-15
Ten COMMANDMENTS
They Will Tell You All About How to
GROW Strawberries and Make
Some Money

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er's Institutes, St. Anthony Park,
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/. Plant in the spring of the year
only, and buy your plants from some
reliable grower. Plant soon as the
ground is in good condition for work.
Plant on very rich, we'll prepared soil.
Plant in rows six feet apart and
twenty inches apart in the row.
| 2. If two varieties of the perfect
and imperfect plants are planted,
then plant every third row of the
perfect Towering plants. Cultivate
them often and keepclean from weeds
at all times.
3. Allow no fruit to grow on plants
the first season, as that would weaken
the plants, but pinch off all blossoms
as soon as they appear.
4. Allow runners to fill path
three feet wide, and allow three feet
between rows for path.
S. When the ground is we'll frozen
in the fall, mulch lightly with partial
ly rotted straw. Also fill the paths
between the rows deep and full with
straw mulch.
6. When picking season arrives,
kneel down on this clean straw cover
ed path and with thankful heart
gather the large red fruit, the best
berry that God ever made.
7. Immediately after the last pick
ing, NOW and rake off and burn all
the vines; then scatter over this bed
a thin covering of well rotted barn.
yard manure. And your labor will be
rewarded with an abundant crop the
following year, and repeat the process
of mulching as in previous year.
8. Plant a new bed every two years
and plant sufficient amount so that
thou and thy family may have an
abundance of this luscious fruit for
thyself, thy family, thy manservant,
thy maidservant, and the stranger
that comes within thy gates.
9. When thou hast an oyerabun-
dance of fruit, cast it not before
swine, but prepare it for future use
when with thy family and friends
thou canst have big feast.
10. To do this the good housewife
will, after taking her noon hours
rest, carefully pick over the berries
and place them in glass jars. Fill well,
giving full and over flowing measure.
Cast all overripe and green berries
with the husk, and feed to the swine.
Now, keep yourself and berries cool
overnight. Following morning af jer
the fire is built, place the cans thus
filled and without the covers, in the
cool oven, not allowing the cans to
touch nor hug one another nor the
bottom of the oven, but stand on the
CRATE. When the oven begins to warm
close the oven door. And now while
you are cooking breakfast and singing
''What is home without berries, and
while the berries are thus heating,
prepare a syrup by heating in a stew
| p an one quart of sugar and one quart
of water to each quart of berries.
Now, eat your breakfast with content
ment and the happy thought that the
berries are doing we'll if left alone.
After breakfast open the oven door,
embrace each can with can holder,
and take it out of the oven. Now
pour over the berries the prepared
syrup until cans are filled, and screw
on the covers tightly, using only new
rubbers of the best quality. Set cans
bottom side up and watch to see that
none of them leak. After the cans
are cool, set them away in cool and
dark celler, and they will keep for the
parents to give to their children, even
QUITO the third and fourth generation
of them that eat strawberry shortcake.
| .... r. A. Schultz.