THE STRAWBERRY MARCH 1906 



Tufts' Sectional Crate 



Neat in Appearance 



Well Ventilated 



Quarts can be Well Filled, Yet 



No Mashed Fruit 



Displays fruit to best advantage. Especially 



adapted to the local market. Investigate. 



Catalogue Free 



Elmer G. Tufts, Aurora, Indiana 



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tinction of the superlative degree safely 

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A Remittance in Rhyme 



By J. A. Aulabaugh 



THE STRAWBERRY'S a pretty miss. 

 Vivacious, fair and gay, 

 And very truly may be called 

 The Early Dawn of Day. 

 For we need no longer wallow 

 In quagmire nor in hollow. 

 So here's your mighty dollar 

 And I'm your strawberry scholar 



Council Bluffs, Iowa 



ONE good friend writes us in a kindh- 

 critical way to say that she does not 

 believe in advocating the idea that 

 "there's millions in" growing strawberries. 

 Well, neither do we; although there is 

 large success possible where conditions as 

 to soil, climate and markets are all favor- 

 able. But what we do believe in is this, 

 and we advocate it on all occasions: 

 There is a good li\ ing, and an independ- 

 ent one, for any man or woman with the 

 intelligence, the patience and the perse- 

 verance to care for a strawberry bed as 

 should be done. And it does not require 

 a high order of intellectual development 

 to do this, although brains are valuable 

 everywhere, and best results are sure to 

 he found where the largest intelligence is 

 joined to practical effort — this always is 

 true whether it be in the strawberry 

 patch, in the counting room or in the pul- 

 pit. And there are many honest folk, 

 these days, seeking a means of independ- 

 ent livelihood; and these it is our duty, as 

 it is our pleasure, to serve. 



THAT pedigree has value in the plant 

 and seed world was indicated quite 

 clearly on the occasion of the meeting of 

 the American Breeders' Association at 



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