THE STRAWBERRY JANUARY 1906 



most favorably known strawberry farm in 

 the state, and was practically out of debt. 

 He was able able to fix his own price for 

 his product and orders for his berries 

 flooded him by letters and by telegram, 

 leading grocers and hotel men in the 

 neighboring cities gladly paying him a 

 premium for his berries — a premium 

 which averaged five cents per quart above 

 the market, and in one season reaching 

 as high as eight cents. During the last 

 five years he spent upon this farm he was 

 unable to fill the orders that came unso- 

 licited to him. 



He attributes his success largely to the 

 fact that early in his work he adopted a 

 label that was placed upon each box 

 guaranteeing that the berries in each were 

 as large and as ripe and as good at the 

 bottom as were those at the top. An- 

 other element in his success was the fact 

 that his winters were spent in the study 

 of soil, fertilizers, bacteria, insect enemies, 

 and fungous pests, how plants feed, and 

 every other subject relating to plant life. 

 What he has done you may do. 



Today this young man is recognized as 

 an authority in all that pertains to straw- 

 berry culture. He believes that his great- 

 est work is yet to be done as head in- 

 structor of our correspondence school of 

 strawberry culture, and his name and face 

 appear at the head of that department in 

 this magazine. He intends that you shall 

 not repeat the mistakes he made at the 

 start — which resulted entirely from lack 

 of information. 



The Way to Pleasure and Profit 



By Harriet J. Loring 



ONE afternoon in June last I went 

 out to gather the strawberries, ex- 

 pecting to get them all picked 

 ready to send off to market that evening, 

 and get myself ready to receive some vis- 

 itors whom we expected that evening. 

 But the big red berries kept filling basket 

 after basket, and the company found me 

 still picking. 



I finished, however, and sent them off 

 to customers, besides having more than 

 all of us could eat over Sunday. Another 

 day an acquaintance drove to the door, 

 asking if she could get some strawberries. 

 She wanted three pecks, and wanted some 

 of them to take home with her. While 

 she make a call on a neighbor, I picked 

 five baskets for her to take home. It was 

 then nearly four o'clock and I finished 

 the rest of the order before dark, taking 

 them to her in the evening. 



Wasn't it fun to hear the exclamations 

 of delight as she turned the luscious red 

 fellows into a broad box to stay over 

 night! And didn't it pay for the work it 

 had cost? Yes, that little bed of two 

 hundred plants paid a good profit, and the 

 work is what any enterprise needs to make 

 it pay. The history of my little venture in 

 strawberry culture briefly is as follows: 



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