THE STRAWBERRY FEBRUARY 1906 



A KALAHAZOO 



DIRECT TO YOU 



WHY not save money in your stove and 

 range buying? 



Why not get 2. x^zW-S sood stove or 

 range while you are about it? 



Here's a Kalamazoo Royal Steel Range — one 

 of the many of the Kalamazoo-direct-to-you 

 family. 



It is guaranteed, under a S20.000 bank bond to 

 be strictly high grade in every respect. 



The body is made of Wellsville blue polished 

 steel— the highest grade steel procurable. 



Not an ounce of scrap iron enters into it. The 

 tops and centers are cut and braced in such a 

 manner that we guarantee them against warp- 

 ing iQtJiz'eyears. 



The linings are heavy and the flues and all oth- 

 er parts where it is necessary are lined with^£«K- 

 ine asbestos, held between two sheets of stetl. 



The oven is square and large, with a bottom 

 that <"rt«nf/' warp or "buckle." The oven venti- 

 lation is ter/eci, making it a quick and even 

 baker. 



Quality IS our £rst consideration, and our 32 

 years experience in building and selling stoves 

 and ranges has taught us hinv to make a range 

 which we can put in comparison with any other 

 in the world. 



Quality should also be your first consideration. 

 You cannot attord to buy a poor ranee at any 

 price, especially— a«t//;L/-(:'j//;t' point— 



When you can buy this high grade Kalamazoo 

 — or any other of the Kalamazoo line of ranges, 

 cook stoves, base burners and heating stoves of 

 ,,-, ,-. ,j . . B all kinds — at a trice lower than your dealer fays 



and _fuel. and is guaranteed not to get out of /or stoves and ranges not the equal 0/ the Kala- 

 mazoo. Please read that again. 



The oven is equipped with patented oven ther- 

 mometer which gives perfect control of the 

 oven's temperature and makes good baking and 

 roasting ao easy matter. It sav-.s time, trouble. 



order. 



The hot water reservoir is large; is 

 lined with white enamel and is easily re- 

 moved for cleaning. 



The fire bos is equipped with either a 

 duplex or a dock ash grate as desired, 

 and either hard or soft coal or coke or 

 wood may be used for fuel. 



It is handsomely finished, all the orna- 

 mental parts being heavily nickeled. *We 

 do all our own nickel-plating, and do it 

 right. 



The riveting, the mounting, the finishing, are 

 all done by hand, by expert workmen, and we 

 guarantee that there is not a better designed, a 

 better made, a better finished, or a more dura- 

 ble stove or range in the worM, thao is the 

 Kalamazoo 



You pet a Kalamazoo, freishi prepaid. 

 on a 3uO days approval test, guaranteed 

 under a $20,000 bank bond, with privi- 

 Ii-tie of returning to us at any time within 

 3(j0 days, if it shows any faults or defects 

 — and all at a /iMj/r/ctf than your dealer 

 pays for many stoves and raDc^s not 

 nearly so good. 

 Here's the secret: 



We are manufacturers — actual manu- 

 facturers and we sell to you direct Jrom 

 our factory aX It'zt'est taciory prices, saving you 

 all dealers', jobbers', agents*, and middlemen's 

 prohts and commissions. 



We have more than 50,000 customers in all 

 parts of the United States. Their letters show 

 that they have saved from S5 to S40 by 

 buying a Kalamazoo direct from our factory. 



We will be glad to send you the names of our 

 customers in your vicinity. Let thc-vt tell you 

 what ilicy think. 



The Kahraazoo line is complete — embracing 

 rant-'es, cook stoves, base burners and heaters 

 for fuel of all sorts, all of late design, handsome 

 pattern and beautiful finish. 

 Send for our catalogue. 



You will find in it the stove or range exactly 

 suited to your purpose, and you will be able to 

 purchase it at a money-saving price. 



Don't you think it a proposition worth looking 

 into? Let us lend you our free catalogue and 

 price list. You'll be interested and pleased. 



Ask for Catalogue No. 348 . 



Kalamazoo Stove Co., Mfrs., Kalamazoo, Mich. 



men to take off anywhere from $500 to 

 $700 worth of berries from an acre of 

 ground. Even the amateur can make 

 several hundred dollars from an acre of 

 strawberries, and if he has been careful to 

 pack his fruit according to approved form, 

 will find no difficulty in building up a 

 business for himself that is sure to grow 

 with the years, if he is faithful to his 

 work and takes pride in his vocation. 



Holland, Ohio. 



TT is doubtful if in the history of horti- 

 ^ cultural journalism a new publication 

 has received more flattering reception 

 than that which has been accorded The 

 Strawberry by the public. The way sub- 

 scriptions have poured in from all the 

 states of the Union and from Canada and 

 Mexico is matter of just pride and en- 

 courages its publishers to believe that the 

 place it is to fill in the li\es and interests 

 of strawberry folk everywhere will be a 

 large and important one. Not only have 

 the subscriptions come to us in an unpre- 

 cedented way, but accompanying many 

 of them are letters of cheer and good" 

 fellowship even more inspiring than the 

 cash testimonial to their good faith and 

 sincere interest. To our friends every- 

 where, both subscribers and advertisers, 

 we take this earliest opportunity to ac- 

 knowledge our indebtedness and to ex- 



press the deep gratitude and satisfaction 

 we feel in consequence of their manifold 

 and substantial manifestations of approval 

 and appreciation. 



My First Attempt at Growing Straw- 

 berries 



By O. J. Wigen 



IN the spring of 1903 I bought seven 

 hundred strawberry plants and set 

 them out in a way I thought was o k, 

 but in the fall I had only twenty-four 

 plants alive out of the seven hundred. 

 That set me thinking. The conclusion 

 was that I myself was to blame and I de- 

 cided to rectify it, and so set to work 

 studying, "Great Crops of Strawberries 

 and How to Grow Them." 



With this book as my only guide I 

 started plowing one and one-fifth acres of 

 land in the fall of 1903 and in the spring 

 of 1904 put on twenty-five loads of ma- 

 nure, plowed it under, harrowed the 

 ground four times and flooded it twice. 

 May 3 (having received 8,500 thorough- 

 bred pedigree plants), I started planting 

 in rows thirty inches apart and put the 

 plants thirty inches apart in the rows. 

 Three days after I began cultivating with 

 a Planet Jr. twelve-tooth harrow and pul- 

 verizer and contin.^ed cultivating every 

 eight or ten days all summer, up to the 



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first part of October, besides cultivatino; 

 after each rain. 



During the summer I also sprayed fi\e 

 times — three times with Bourdeaux and 

 twice with Bourdeaux and Paris green 

 mixed, but my spraying was partly a fail- 

 ure, as I first started spraying to cure 

 when I should have started spraying to 

 prevent. 



For cultivating between the plants I 

 used a home-made three-pronged fork or 

 cultivator made from three pieces of 

 heavy telegraph wire about ten inches 

 long and a piece of wood about four feet 

 long for a handle. F"latten one end of 

 the handle so it is about 2 1-2 or 3 in- 

 ches wide and about 1 1-4 inches thick, 

 drive the short bents of the wires in to 

 the flat part of the handle so the longest 

 bents come flush with the end of the 

 handle, fasten the wires about one inch 

 or inch and a quarter from each other and 

 having the prongs about 2 or 2 and one- 

 half inches long and your tool is ready for 

 use I like this tool for working between 

 the plants better than the hoe. 



Late in the fall just before mulching, I 

 spread ten loads of manure between the 

 rows and on April 5 of the spring of 1905 

 uncovered the plants by raking the 

 mulching apart directly over the plants. 



Three days after I started cultivating, 

 turning the mulching from the next row 

 into the one cultivated, and so on, then 



