THE STRAWBERRY JANUARY 1906 



THE STRAWBERRY 



A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO 

 THE INTERESTS OF STRAWBERRY 

 PRODUCTION IN ALL ITS BRANCHES 



Published the First of Each Month by 



The Kellogg Publishing Company 

 Three Rivers, Michigan. 



ROBERT S. FOUNTAIN, 



Advertising Manager, 



47 Plymouth Place, Chicago, 111. 



Subscription Price One Dollar a Year 



Applieation made for Ptitry at the postoffice at 

 Three Rivers, Mieh., as second-class matter. 



JANUARY, 1906 



OUR colored cover is a photo-illus- 

 tration of a strawberry farm very 

 familiar to us, and though the engravers 

 have not done justice to the subject and 

 the close observer will note some de- 

 fects, the fine thoroughbred plants in 

 the foreground, the beautiful background 

 of noble trees, with the simple cottage 

 and its pretty domestic scene — the house- 

 wife taking the morning's mail from the 

 hand of the rural mail carrier — all con- 

 spire to make a taking and effective pic- 

 ture of the country home set among the 

 most beautiful of nature's decorations. 

 It is our aim to present only actual pho- 

 tographic reproductions in The Straw- 

 berry, thus encouraging the reader to do 

 what others have shown it to be easy to 

 accomplish if one has the intention and 

 the will to do it. 



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READERS are directly interested in 

 the advertisements appearing in a 

 journal to which they subscribe and 

 to know of the attitude of its pub- 

 lishers concerning the character of the 

 matter admitted to its advertising col- 

 umns. In this initial issue of The Straw- 

 berry we desire to make our position 

 clear on this point. 



Many good journals guarantee their 

 subscribers against loss should the latter 

 be led to patronize a swindling concern 

 through an advertisement appearing in the 

 coluinns of those journals. That is tiie 

 proper thing to do, but we purpose going 

 further and guarantee our readers against 

 introduction through our pages to any- 

 thing that falls short of the highest stand- 

 ards of business integrity, insisting that 

 whatever appears in its columns shall rep- 

 resent something of positive advantage 

 to the reader, considered either from the 

 material or moral viewpoint. 



No liquor advertisement, no "patent" 

 medicine advertising, will be admitted. 



We do not mean by this to intimate that 

 there are no worthy remedies among the so- 

 called patent articles, but we are unable 

 to discriminate between them, and so ex- 

 clude them altogether. So with stock- 

 jobbing and gambling devices, mining 

 schemes and "opportunities in oil," "get- 

 rich-quick schemes " or any other thing 

 concerning which there is the shadow of 

 a doubt — none may have access to our 

 readers through these pages. 



What we do purpose, however, is to 

 carry such lines of advertising as shall 

 win for us the confidence of every reader 

 and make mutually helpful friends of ad- 

 vertiser and readei. To paraphrase the 

 famous motto of the late Charles A. 

 Dana, we want our readers to feel that 

 If you see it in The Strawberry, it's all 

 right!" And so, when we publish the 

 merits of our advertising friends to our 

 subscriber friends we wish it understood 

 that it is in the natuie of a personal intro- 

 duction, and that we stand sponsor for the 

 good faith of each. 



DECENTLY we purchased one of the Kala- 

 **■ mazoo Stove Co's. (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 

 ranges and one of theii base burners — the Royal 

 range and the Radiant heater. We unhesitat- 

 ingly pronounce them the best of their kind we 

 have tried in a quarter of a century of experience 

 with ranges and heaters and in the consumption 

 of antracite coal in both. For economy of con- 

 sumption and effectiveness in radiation, for ease 

 in management and quickness of response to 

 proper manipulation, we never have seen their 

 equal; and they are as handsome and durable as 

 they are effecti\e. And to say one word more, 

 we estimate that in the purchase of these two do- 

 mestic necessities we have saved at least $25 be- 

 cause we bought them direct from the manu- 

 facturer. The methods of the Kalamazoo 

 Stove Co. are as fine as their manufactured pro- 

 ducts — all are first-class and thoroughly up to 

 date. Strawberry folks ought to know this 

 company. 



'X'HERE is another Kalamazoo institution 

 ^ whose ad\'ertisement appears in The Straw- 

 berry, with which we have done a large amount 

 of business — the Kalamazoo Novelty Co., and 

 we can say to anybody having anything to man- 

 ufacture in the wav of iron or steel or brass from 

 a hatchet to a steam engine, that this company 

 will give your order the best of attention and 

 care. Just try them and see, if you are in quest 

 of a factory to manufacture anything in metal. 



ANOTHER advertiser whose goods we can 

 recommend without hesitation because of 

 actual experience with them is the Elkhart Car- 

 riage and Harness Co., of Elkhart, Ind., one of 

 whose graceful and well-built surreys has been 

 in service on the farm long enough to test its 

 qualities thoroughly. The Elkhart Co. also is 

 a "direct to consumer" manufacturer, u'ith the 

 result that the middlemen's profits go the pur- 

 chaser. You can't make a mistake if you deal 

 with them. Ask for their catalogue of carriages 

 and harnesses, and discover what a splendid con- 

 cern it is with which to do business. And don't 

 fail to mention that you saw it in The Strawberry 



A ND there is the Aspinwall Manufacturing 

 •'*■ Co., of Jackson, Mich., who have used a 

 scene on the farm-home of The Strawberry to 

 illustrate their excellent sprayer in the handsome 

 full-page advertisement that adorns our second 

 cover page. That picture tells the story and 

 shows to what good use we are putting the As- 

 pinwall spraying machine. It also tells volumes as 



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to our opinion of the Aspinuall goods, for we 

 make it a rule to use only those farm accessor- 

 ies that serve their purpose well. It is a pleas- 

 ure to introduce our patrons to the Aspinwall 

 people, who always do business on the basis of 

 the '(Square deal." 



"TpHEN there is the American Harrow Co., of 

 ^ Detroit, whose 150-bushel manure spreader 

 has done such great service in our interest for 

 the last three years — and still appears to be as 

 good as the day it went into commission. In 

 this day of farm economics there are few things 

 that serve a larger purpose than the manure 

 spreader; and we can heartily recommend the 

 American as a result of actual and large exper- 

 ience. Write for their catalogue and see how 

 many ways they have under which they will sell 

 you a spreader on easy terms — so easy that you 

 would scarcely feel the paying for it. 



ONE of our neighbors, Frank R. Fisher of 

 Moorepark, IVIich., for some months has 

 been introducing a harrow that does wonders in 

 the way of preparing the soil for garden and farm 

 crops. It is the Naylor Combination Harrow, 

 and it is well worth your while to look into its 

 merits. It is a combination of spike and spring 

 teeth, the latter controlled by two levers so as to 

 raise or lower them at will. You will see by the 

 advertisement how the farmers who have had a 

 chance to see it work are buying it. Send for a 

 circular to the address given in the advertise- 

 ment and we are sure you will be interested in 

 this implement. 



CPEAKING of sprayers, the Wallace Ma- 

 ^ chinery Co., of Champaign, 111., are mak- 

 ing a machine that just now is attracting the at- 

 tention of fruit men everywhere, and we shall 

 make a thorough test of it during the coming 

 season. The Wallace Co. is one of the old re- 

 liables, and anything that it puts out may be 

 counted on to do good work. Write today for 

 a catalogue, mentioning The Strawberry, and 

 study the question of spraying machines during 

 these long winter evenings. 



CTARK BROS., the famous nurserymen of 

 '^ Louisiana, Mo., were the first to respond to 

 our announcement regarding The Strawberry, and 

 there came from them a prompt request for the 

 back cover page. You will observe how at- 

 tractively they have filled it with interestir.gand 

 suggestive facts concerning their immense busi- 

 ness — one of the largest of its kind in the world. 

 Quality and size go together here, for the Stark 

 Bros, look after their patrons' welfare with an 

 interest and loyal zeal that has been one of the 

 principal factors in their tremendous success. 



IV^ ICHIGAN also has a big nursery, and it is 

 ^'^ run by big men who do tilings in a big 

 way. Over at Monroe one of the institutions of 

 which the townsfolk are particularly proud is 

 the Greening Bros', nurseries. Trees are grown 

 there by the million on 700 acres of as fine land 

 for the purpose as may be found anywhere. 

 Every order of nursery stock is included in their 

 catalogue, and If you are in the market for goods 

 in their line, send for a copy of it and you will 

 find much to interest you therein. 



■pARM folk will find few later-day labor-savers 

 ■^ more effective than the combination wagon- 

 box, that you can transform in a twinkling from 

 a corn-carrier into a hay rack, and from a hay 

 rack into a moving sheep, swine or cattle wagon 

 Indeed, these are only a hint of the capacity of 

 the Twentieth Century Wagon-box to suit itself 

 instantly to the necessities of its owner. No 

 lifting of a heavy box is necessary at all. What 

 this means to the man on the farm nobody else 

 can appreciate quite so thoroughly as the man 

 who is performing th.it back-lireaking feat every 

 few days or hours, as the case may be. The 

 Twentieth Century is made and sold direct to 

 the consumer bv the Model Maiinfacturiiig Co., 

 Muncie, Ind. Write for a catalogue. Doitnow. 



