Do not plant small fruit in your orchard. Have an acre and fence it from the chickens ; have long raws, and plant everything wide enough to cultivate with the sulky cultivator. Every family needs for each member of the family one bushel of currants and gooseberries, two bushels of strawberries, one bushel of raspberries, one bushel of blackberries, fifty pounds of grapes, and two barrels of apples, each and every year. This will give health, happiness and a love for the old home. You can grow as many strawberries on a square rod of ground as you can of potatoes. Set the plants in long rows early in the spring. Strawberry plants should not be set on ground where water will stand in winter. Set the plants even with the surface - not too low, nor the crown above ground. Firm the roots of everything, and use a little water in planting. Get plants that are true to name - the pistillate plants are the best bearers, but an acre of them would be worthless for fruit. They outrun all others, so don't go to the old bed for plants, you may get all pistillates.

If you plant two rows side by side of one variety, you can depend upon the plants between those rows as pure, and you may thus keep them by planting a few rows each year.

That garden acre should have on the north or west side, a row of grapes eight feet from the fence, and eight feet apart; then eight feet a row of currants, gooseberries and pie-plant three feet apart, a row of blackberries, a row of red raspberries, a row of black raspberries; then your strawberry ground where, after it gets grassy, you can plow it up. Your ground should be rich enough to produce one hundred bushels of corn to the acre, for all kinds of small fruit. - George J. Kellogg, Wisconsin.