THE STRAWBERRY MARCH 1906 



lAin the Paint Man 



2 Full Gallons Free to Try— 6 Months Time to Pay 



St. Louis, Mo. 



AM the paint man. 

 I have a new way 

 of manufacturing 

 and selling: paints. It's 

 unique— /^'5 better. 



Before my plan was 

 invented paint was sold 

 in two ways — either 

 ready-mixed or the in- 

 gredients were bought 

 and mixed by the painter. 



Ready-mixed paint settles 



on the shelves, forming a sediment at the bottom 

 of the can. The mineral in ready-mixed paint, 

 when standing in oil. eats the life out o£ the oil. 

 The oil is the very life of all paints. 



Paint made by the painter cannot be properly 



made on account of lack of the heavy mixing 



machine. , , , ,j 



My paint is ^tnlike any other paint in the world. 



It is ready to use. but not ready-mixed. 



My paint is made to order after each order is 



received, packed in hermetically sealed cans 



with the very day it is made stamped on each 



can by my factory inspector. 



I ship my pigment— which is white lead, zmc. 

 drier and coloring matter freshly ground, after 

 order is received— in separate cans, and in an- 



IMF" Yqu Pay Mo FrcIgM to Try My 



other can I ship my Oilo, which is pure old process 

 linseed oil, the kind that you used to buy years 

 ago before the paint manufacturers, to cheapen 

 the cost of paint, worked in adulterations. 



I sell my paint direct from my factory to user 

 at ray very low factory price; you pay no dealer 

 or middleman profits. 



I pay the freight on six gallons or over. 



My paint is so good that I make this wonder- 

 fully fair test offer: 



When you receive your shipment of paint, you 

 can use tivo full gallons — ihsii will cover 600 

 square feet of wall — two coats. 



If, after you have used that much of my paint, 

 you are not perfectly satisfied with it in every 

 detail, you can return the remainder of your 

 order and the two gallons will not cost you one 

 Penny, 



No other paint manufacturer ever made such 

 a liberal offer. 



It is because I manufacture the finest paint, 

 put up in the best way, that I can make this 

 offer. 



I go even further. I sell all of my paint on six 

 months* time, if desired. 



This gives you an opportunity to paint your 

 buildings when they need it. and pay for the 

 paint at your convenience 



Paint. 



Back of my paint stands 

 my Might Year, of&cially 

 signed iron^clad Gaaran- 



tee» 



^EilVRS, 



lGUARANir>EE 



This ia the longest and most lib- 

 eral guarantee ever put on a paint. 



For further particulars reRardiiig 

 my plan of eellins, and complete 

 color card of all colors, Bt-nd a postal 

 to O. L. Chase, St. Louis, Mo. 



I will BPnd my paint book— the 

 most complete book of its kind ever 

 published — absolutely free. Also 

 my instruction book entitled '*ThiB 

 Little Book Telia How to Paint" 

 and copy of my b year guarantee. 



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NOTE— My 8 Year Guarantee backed by $S0,000 Bond 



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 Bt. LouU. Mo. 



ihree-fourths colored, with pink showing 

 on the greener side. For home marivet 

 they should remain on the vines one day 

 longer. After the first three or four days 

 in the beginning of the season the field 

 needs picking every day. Choose the 

 cool of the morning, before berries are 

 heated by the sun, as they will soon dry 

 out. 



A general discussion on varieties 

 showed that Aroma, Haverland, War- 

 field, Senator Dunlap and Texas were the 

 leading favorites in Missouri. The 

 Haverland was planted over a larger ter- 

 ritory, perhaps, than any other. 



COMMERCIAL strawberry growing 

 is becoming year by year an industry 

 of large importance in Illinois, especially 

 in the southern portion of the state where 

 the crop matures early and is in the mar- 

 ket directly on the heels of those that 

 come from down in Dixie. At the Illi- 

 nois State Horticultural Society meeting 

 E. C. Persels of the little city of Farina, 

 himself an extensive grower, read a paper 

 on the strawberry as a commercial crop. 

 As Farina shipped eighty-eight carloads 

 of berries last year, and Mr. Persels was 

 a large contributor to these shipments, liis 

 right to speak on the subject with autlior- 

 ity may not be questioned. 



Mr. Persels said he planted every 

 fourth row, at least, of staminate sorts, 

 and usually plants two of the staminate 

 rows together. Asked if it were not bet- 

 ter to have staminate sorts which bloom 

 a little later than pistillate varieties, so 

 that the last blooms of the latter will be 

 fertilized, he said he tried to have some 

 of the staminate rows blossom before the 

 pistillate varieties, and some of them af- 

 terwards. If this can be arranged, the 

 early and late blooms of the pistillate 

 sorts will be properly fertilized. Pistil" 

 late varieties are much more prolific, as a 



rule, than staminate sorts — in fact, he 

 counts on about double the yield from 

 the pistillate varieties, as the staminate 

 sorts do not hold up until the last of the 

 season. 



Has anyone ever triea growing oats 

 between strawberry rows, to act as a 

 mulch.'" 



"Yes, and the plan does not work; 



The Chance of Your Life 



FOR the express purpose of helping our pat- 

 rons into a more successful plan of grow- 

 ing bigger crops of better berries at less 

 cost, we have established the Correspondence 

 School of Strawberry Cuhure. It has cost us 

 many thousands of dollars to learn how to grow 

 big crops of fancy strawberries every year. We 

 shall be glad to give you the benefit of ourexperi- 

 ence and save you many costly mistakes. 



All sorts of questions relating to the produc- 

 tion of strawberries for market and in the family 

 garden, are here answered by experts who have 

 made a wonderful success in the strawberry busi- 

 ness and are now operating the largest and most 

 successful strawberry farm in this country. The 

 information you receive comes fresh from the 

 strawberry 9.:]d. Advice counts for little unless 

 it comes from those who thoroughly understand 

 their business. Success comes by following 

 those who are successful. 



Every detail of the work will be made perfectly 

 plain; the lessons taught will be practical and 

 common-sense. We shall recommend nothing 

 save that which must be done in order to attain 

 big results. Our whole aim is to make the mem- 

 bers of this school the leaders in their section — 

 if commercial growers., then to take the top 

 prices on the market; if growing for f;imily use, 

 lo have the strawberries of the neighborhood. 



While it costs us many thousands of dollars to 

 furnish this instruction, information and advice, 

 it will cost you but $1 per year to enioy all its 

 benefits. How can you afford to be without it? 

 Send your membership to The Kellogg Pub- 

 lishing Company, 118 Portage Ave., Three 

 Rivers, Micliigan. You will never regret it 



Don't Let It Get By You 



looks all right in theor\-, but will not pan 

 out." 



In reply to questions concerning use of 

 planting machine for strawberries, E. H. 

 Riehl, of North Alton, said that the 

 planters will not work; they are all right 

 for tomatoes and potatoes, but will not 

 handle strawberry plants, as some of the 

 plants will be too deep and some too 

 shallow. 



Other state societies have shown their 

 sense of obligation to this great interest 

 by more generous recognition in the pro- 

 gram. The strawberry industry is com- 

 ing into its own. 



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SO you think "any old place" will do 

 for your garden, do you? Well, you 

 will make a great mistake if you act on 

 that notion. Get the best, the richest, 

 soil you can find, work it up as fine as 

 possible, manure it liberally, get good 

 plants and seeds, practice the best of cul- 

 tural methods — and success will be yours. 

 And give the very best of the lot to the 

 strawberry patch. 



NO less an authority than the Dei>art- 

 nient of Agriculture is responsible 

 for the statement that the annual loss to 

 American crops through the depredations 

 of insects reaches the astoimding figure of 

 .$700,000,000. Fairly makes one's head 

 swiiTi to try to imagine so stupendous a 

 sum. And just think of what it suggests 

 of the value of the sprayer when we 

 know that already the cotton boll weevil 

 which had been costing the cotton states 

 as high as $30,000,000 a year, has been 

 brought under subjection by its use. 

 And the coddling moth, which annually 

 has been ruining $20,000,000 worth of 

 apples, is kept under complete control by 

 the use of arsenical sprays. Then add 



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