THE STRAWBERRY MARCH 1906 



A KALAMAZOO 



DIRECT TO YOU 



WHY not sa^-e iuonev in your stove and 

 range buying? 



Why not get a really i'-^tft/ stove or 

 range while you are about it? 



Here's a Kalamazoo Rnyal Steel Range — one 

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

 family. 



It is guaranteed, under a $20,000 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 iot five years. 



The linings are heavy and the fiues anrl all oth- 

 er partswhere it IS necessary are lined withA'<««- 

 itie asbestos, held between two sheets of steel. 



The oven is square and large, with a bottom 

 that ((irtntj/ warp or "buckle." The oven venti- 

 lation is perfect, making it a quick and even 

 baker. 



Quality is our first consideration, and our 32 

 years experience in building and selling stoves 

 and ranges has taught us hoiu to make a raD(;e 

 which we can put in comparison with any other 

 in the world. 



^ Quality should also be your first consideration. 

 Vou cannot altord to buy a poor ranee at any 

 price, especially— flW^t-rtr'jM^ 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 



1,1 ,-- .J .. . .« all kinds — at a price loiver thattyour dcaUr pays 



and fuel, and is guaranteed not to get out of /^r st^v^s and ranges. n>t the e<,uai of the KaL 



°^'*^^* «"'^"" Please read that again. 



You get a Kalamazoo, freight prepaid. 

 onaSuOdays approval test, guaranteed 



The oven is equipped with patented oven ther- 

 mometer which gives perfect control of tlie 

 oven's temperature and makes good baking and 

 roasting an easy matter, It saves time, trouble, 



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 



Oven 

 Tbermomcter 



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

 lege of returning to us at any time within 

 3(>0 days, if it shows any faults or defects 

 — and all at a /(•jj/rAr than your dealer 

 pays for many stoves and ranees not 

 nearly so good. 



Heie's the secret: 



We are manufacturers — actual manu- 



facturers and we sell to you direct jrom 



r factory i\.\. hnvest factory prices, saving you 



^WAowQ by hand, by expert workmen, and we all dealers", jobbers', agents', and middlemen's 

 guarantee that there is not a better designed, a prohts and commissions, 

 better made, a better finished, or a more dura 



ble stove or range in the 

 Kalamazoo . 



world, than is the 



Please Remember: 



We are actual manufacturers, not mall 

 order dealers. 



We have more than 50,000 customers — 

 all satisfied. 



Vou run no risk, as we give you a 360 

 days approval test. 



We pay the freight. 



We make you actual factory prices. 



We sell you a stove or range not ex- 

 celled by any in the world. 



We have more than 50.000 customers in all 

 parts of the United States. Their letters show 

 that they have saved from S5 to $40 by 

 buying a Kalamazoo direct from our factory. 



We will be clad to send you the names of our 

 customers in your vicinity. Let them tell you 

 what they think. 



The Kalamazoo line is complete — embracing; 

 ran;: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 ranee exactfy 

 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 lookinff 

 into? Let us send you our free catalogue and 

 price list. You'll be interested and pleasf d. 



Ask for Catalogue No. 348 . 



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



quality of berry through sub-irrigation 

 than from surface irrigation. You cer- 

 tainly have put your ground into excel- 

 lent contJition for splendid crops by so 

 thoroughly manuring it. 



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C. J. P., Tecumseh, Mich. — Am looking 

 about for material to cover my quarter-acre 

 of strawberries and have in view some red 

 cloverchaff. Kindly advise how this would 

 work as a covering. Does any one ever use 

 tobacco stems for covering.' There are two 

 factories here and any amount of stems could 

 be secured. 



Clover chaf? would make a very good 

 mulching, but would contain much seed, 

 and this would cause endless trouble at 

 fruiting time as well as when cultivating 

 the bed for another crop. Another ob- 

 jection is that clover hulls are so dark as 

 to absorb the heat from the sun's rays 

 and might result in blistering the fruit. 

 \Ve would not recommend the use of to- 

 bacco stems as a mulch. 



G. T. , Tacoma, Wash. — Do you think pistil- 

 late varieties will do well here? We have 

 very little wind, and no bees to amount to 

 anything. 



The scarcity of bees and the lightness 

 bf your winds will have no effect upon 



your pistillate varieties, provided you 

 properly mate them; and the way to do 

 this is to set one row of bisexuals and 

 two or three rows of pistillates. The or- 

 der in which to set these rows should be 

 as follows: First, a bisexual somewhat 

 earlier than the pistillate rows, the pistil- 

 lates to be followed by a row of bisexuals 

 a little later than the pistillates. This 

 system of planting insures a continuous 

 flow of bisexual bloom, with anthers burst- 

 ing just at the moment when the stigma of 

 the pistillate bloom is most receptive. 

 Nature has provided many ways for 

 carrying the pollen. 



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J. R. S., Covert, Mich. — Whal varieties 

 would you recommend for shipping to South- 

 ern markets.' 



We think your idea of growing straw- 

 berries in this state for Southern markets is 

 a good one and we are very sure that you 

 can make a splendid success of it After 

 the crop has all been harvested in the 

 states south of us the people just begin to 

 get good and hungry' for strawberries, and 

 if you will grow the late varieties, that 

 will come in after the Southern varieties 

 are marketed, you will have the market 

 pretty much to yourself, thus finding it 

 easy to make quick sales at big prices. 

 We believe the best thing for you to do 



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is to set largely of the latest varieties and 

 the best of these are Aroma, Pride of 

 Michigan, Dornan, Sample and Gandy. 

 These are all extra late, and we are quite 

 sure will be just the ones you want. 



E. C, St. Francis, Mo. — I find it impossible 

 in the time I have to work to keep the run- 

 ners cut back during the growing season. 

 Can you give a suggestion, or in other words, 

 have you discovered a quick and easy way to 

 keep the runners from growing.' 



It is easy to control the runners if you 

 start the work in time by using a roller- 

 runner cutter. This will cut off all the 

 runners that run between the rows, and 

 those that form directly in the row be- 

 yond the number you wish to grow may 

 be cut off with hoes and treated the same 

 as weeds. The trouble is that the grower 

 is apt to let the runners become mattevl 

 before he begins the work of clearing 

 them out. 



J. B., Louisville, Neb. — My plants are very 

 thick — too thick, I am afraid. What shall 

 I do — thin them early in the spring, or let 

 them go until after fruiting? 



There is nothing now that you can do 

 to rectify the difficulty until after fruiting 

 time, then take a bar shear and throw a 



