THE STRAWBERRY FEBRUARY 1906 



sion houses; for I know better where my 

 fruit will carry than any one else does. 

 We are extremely careful about picking, 

 sorting and packing, all berries being 

 turned out on table and carefully in- 

 spected; and we think it pays." 



Of course it pays; pays big for the 

 present, but bigger still in the building up 

 of confidence in your product. In fact, 

 every extra touch given the strawberry, 

 from planting until they are sold to the 

 consumer, pays, and in more ways than 

 one. 



<^ ^ 

 The Family Strawberry Bed 



ARE you preparing to set out a fine 

 and thrifty lot of strawberry plants 

 this spring as a part of your family 

 garden? You can't afford to neglect it, 

 and now is the time to make prepara- 

 tions. We know of nothing else that 

 more surely brings the several members 

 of a family into a common interest in the 

 garden than the strawberry bed; for the 

 man or woman, boy or girl who doesn't 

 like big juicy strawberries is so rare a 

 specimen of humanity that you can mark 

 down zero as the number of that kind. 



Every consideration of pleasure, com- 

 fort and economy urges the family straw- 

 berry bed. In the first place, you get 

 your berries just when you want them, 

 and who can prescribe a more inviting 

 dish to set before a guest who has "just 

 dropped in" than luscious, red strawber- 

 ries, submerged in cream! And the visi- 

 tor not only will enjoy the feast, but will 

 take positive delight in helping to pick 

 the great fresh, cool fellows which actu- 

 ally appear to want to be eaten, so elo- 

 quently do they invite you to enjoy their 

 richness. 



Then the pleasure you have taken in 

 such an incident, as well as in the 

 thought that the feast was largely the 

 work of your hand, while the cost — well, 

 the cost has been amply repaid in the sat- 

 isfaction you have received. We think 

 more than repaid, for does not the straw- 

 berry culturist find health and pleasure in 

 the very work itself.'' 



The strawberry patch becomes the 

 rallying point for the boys and girls of 

 the family, and if they be given general 

 charge of the bed and encouraged to 

 make it do its best, there can be no bet- 

 ter home influence; nothing else will 

 serve a larger purpose in keeping them 

 interested in the home and its affairs. 

 Let the young folk have the surplus, and 

 it will encourage them to go on and de- 

 velop the business into something of real 

 importance in their lives. 



If you reside in the city, you will find 

 respite from its noise and bustle in your 

 garden. If you reside in the country, you 

 will find it impossible to depend upon 

 the markets for your supplies of straw- 

 berries, and oftimes must go hungry for 

 the fruit above all others you like the 



best. And whether you reside in town 

 or country, if you have an abundant sup- 

 ply of berries you may enjoy them to the 

 full as you take them from the vines, and 

 you may be sure of an ample supply of 

 them at canning and preserving time. 



And it will surprise you to learn how 

 many quarts of these delicious berries 

 may be grown on a few square rods of 

 ground. 



AMERICANS who have gone to 

 Cuba to make their homes on that 

 delightful "Pearl of Antilles," confidently 

 expect to develop a large strawberry in- 

 terest on the island when the new line of 

 railway now being constructed out to the 

 very tip of the Florida keys shall be com- 

 pleted. This line will shorten the run 

 by boat from Havana to Florida down to 

 something like the distance between 

 South Haven, Mich., and Chicago, and 

 fast trains will carry the fruit to New 

 York where there always is a strong win- 

 ter market for these berries. 



Strawberries and Chickens 



WHAT may I do to employ my 

 time throughout the year?" is an 

 inquiry that frequently comes to 

 us. We answer, raise poultry and lots 

 of it. You will find it makes an ideal 

 combination. One day last summer we 

 visited a nine-acre farm a few miles from 

 a Wisconsin village. The owner had 

 combined fruit-growing with poultry, and 

 had become well versed in both. His 

 little farm was paying him something like 

 $2,000 a year net. He had bought it on 

 contract a few years before, had paid out 



for it, and was as independent as a man 

 can be in this world. When we left the 

 train at his station there he was with 

 great baskets of fruit and eggs and some 

 of the finest poultry imaginable. All 

 these were going into Milwaukee, some 

 twenty-five miles distant, where he had 

 built up a fine trade for all his products. 



This farmer finds berries and poultry 

 an ideal combination. He markets eggs, 

 poultry and fruit all at one trip during 

 the summer months, and in the winter 

 time gets big prices for eggs and broilers 

 while his plants lie sleeping beneath their 

 winter mulch. 



Then he finds that the large amount of 

 manure produced by his fowls is a great 

 saving to him, supplying as it does that 

 element so costly in purchased fertilizers, 

 the nitrates. They also discourage insect 

 pests. 



One other point about this particular 

 man and his place — he is a believer in 

 thoroughbreds and doesn't allow a 

 "scrub" fowl or plant to get near his 

 place. His poultry stock is of the finest 

 strains, and he has so many calls for eggs 

 for breeding purposes that he finds it 

 difficult to respond to them all at certain 

 seasons of the year. Still another point — 

 he uses the latest and best makes of in- 

 cubators and brooders and finds his suc- 

 cess quadrupled by this method. In a 

 word, his farm is run on the same busi- 

 ness principles that obtain in a great fac- 

 tory. He buys the best of everything, 

 works only with the best of conveniences, 

 and sells only high-grade products. 

 Combined with pluck and energy these 

 will win success every time. 



Can you do better than follow the ex- 

 ample of this Wisconsin farmer? 



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