THE STRAWBERRY MARCH 1906 



THE STRAWBERRY 



A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO 

 THE INTERESTS OF STRAWBERRY 

 PRODUCTION IN ALL ITS BRANCHES 



Published the First of Each Month by 



The Kellogg Publishing Company 



Three Rivers, Michigan. 



ROBERT S. FOUNTAIN, 



Advertising Manager, 



47 Plymouth Place, Chicago, III. 



Subscription Price One Dollar a Year 



MARCH, 1906 



THE subject for our colored cover 

 for this issue is the farm home of 

 The Strawberry, showing the pub- 

 lication office of this magazine as it looks 

 from the fields which stretch away from 

 it and the handsome park surrounding it. 

 During the summer months that park is 

 a quiet resting place for many visitors 

 who come from far and near to visit the 

 farms and study the methods employed 

 here in the culture of the strawberry. 

 And when the breeding beds are filled 

 with great luscious berries it is a sight to 

 see our visitors come and go, carrying 

 away in the aggregate many bushels of 

 the big fellows, many of which would 

 take the blue ribbon at the world's lead- 

 ing horticultural shows. While we are 

 speaking on this subject, let us invite you 

 and every other reader of the magazine 

 to come and see us. We are sure it will 

 do you good. And just notice that we 

 are offering to that friend who shall send 

 us the largest number of subscriptions to 

 the magazine, above 100, between this 

 time and the 15th of December next, a 

 free round trip to this farm and a full 

 week's entertainment; or a choice of a 

 round-trip to Washington, Niagara Falls 

 or Jacksonville, Fla., just as the prize- 

 winner may prefer. 



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STUDY your market conditions if you 

 would make a big success of the 

 strawberry business. And don't wait un- 

 til the berries are ripe on the vines before 

 doing it. Look the field over carefully 

 to discover just what is wanted, how 

 many you can sell of the high-grade ber- 

 ries you produce. Then get your boxes 

 and crates in hand, engage your pickers 

 early so as to be sure of having sufficient 

 help to handle the crop as it matures, get 

 your packing shed in readiness, and then 

 when the season comes on you are pre- 

 pared to do business and get all there is 

 out of it. Some good folk go ahead 

 and grow splendid crops, forgetting all 

 about the market side of the business, 

 and then wonder why they did not make 



a larger success of their season's work. 

 There is the cultural side of the question, 

 and there is the market side; both must 

 be given due consideration if real success 

 is to be won. 



SEND us your experiences as a straw- 

 berry grower, amateur or profes- 

 sional. Everybody whose labor has pro- 

 duced the favorite fruit has something in- 

 teresting to tell about it. We shall be 

 pleased to have you tell your story, confi- 

 dent that it will help and encourage others. 

 Write briefly and clearly and give the 

 world the benefit of what you have done 

 — the pleasures the vexations, the downs 

 and the ups, of your experience. 



ONCE more we take pleasure in call- 

 ing attention to our advertisers. 

 We are sure you will find them well 

 worth getting acquainted with. They 

 stand for reliability in goods and in meth- 

 ods, and if you will give them a chance 

 they will prove it to your entire satisfac- 

 tion. It is not always a simple matter to 

 be able to present only the best of folk in 

 our advertising columns, as an incident 

 of the month shows. A very attractive 

 offer of advertising came to us from one 

 claiming to be an extensive nursery and 

 seed man in New England, with breed- 

 ing farms in Europe for his flower spec- 

 ialties. The electros accompanied the 

 order. We decided 'twere better to look 

 him up before accepting. You will not 

 find his "ads" in The Strawberry because 

 we were advised that he was selling 

 doubtful seeds. No "fakers" need apply 

 for space in The Strawberry. 



THE paclcage sells the fruit," is the motto of 

 the Pierce- Williams Co., whose mammoth 

 works at South Haven, Mich., and Jonesboro, 

 Ark. , are famous for their splendid products in 

 the way of baskets and boxes, put up for 

 strength and neatness foi" the fruit growers of 

 the country. All who have engaged in the 

 business of selling fruit will recognize the truth 

 of that statement. If there is any one thing 

 that more than another will stand in the way of 

 the fruit seller it is an unattractive package, and 

 baskets and boxes that are made in slipshod 

 fashion will destroy the appearance of the finest 

 fruit. The Pierce- Williams Co. are situated 

 with especial advantage to two of the great 

 fruit-producing regions of the country, and 

 this fact, combined with the excellent quality of 

 their goods, has resulted in building up a great 

 reputation and a large trade all the country over. 

 The free catalogue of this company will give 

 you many helpful hints and much valuable in- 

 formation. 



PUGET SOUND seems far away to the 

 Eastern gardener, and the idea of securing 

 seeds from that land of sunshine and flowers to 

 plant in the regions east of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains appears at first sight to be rather strange. 

 But when we remember the extraordinary suc- 

 cess achieved out there in the production of 

 flowers and fruits and vegetables; when we re- 

 call what Luther Burbank, down in California, 

 has achieved for horticulture everywhere, and 



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when we consider the extraordinary display of 

 everything pertaining to horticulture at the 

 Lewis & Clark Exposition last year at Portland 

 — these things well may suggest to xis the ad- 

 visability of testing the quality of the Puget 

 Sound products in our own soils and climate. 

 Chas. H. Lilly & Co., the most extensive 

 growers of seeds on the Pacific Coast have 

 made their initial bow to the Eastern public in 

 the pages of The Strawberry. This is a great 

 house, a reliable one, and their products arc of 

 the highest order. Give them a trial if a 

 flower lover, of their wonderful Japanese honey- 

 suckle; if a truck-grower, of the marvelous 

 Lilly's Glory cabbage; if a berry grower, of 

 Burbank's Phenomenal berry, which Mr. Bur- 

 bank himself declares to be the best berry in 

 the world. And don't forget to mention The 

 Strawberry. 



EVERYBODY his (or her) own cracker-jack 

 maker! Isn't that a cracker-jack idea, in- 

 deed? And if you had ever partaken of the 

 crisp and delicious cracker-jack made by Clark 

 Potter "the Cracker-Jack man" of Three Riv- 

 ers, you would begin to understand what a 

 privilege it is to have all one wishes for oneself 

 and one's friends of this delicacy. For it is a 

 delicacy, compounded according to Mr. Pot- 

 ter's recipe, and this recipe he is offering to you 

 at a nominal sum. Having this recipe you 

 may make all the cracker-jack desired for your- 

 self, your family and your friends, and not one 

 but will appreciate such a treat. Write Mr. 

 Potter for his famous recipe. He is a neighbor 

 of The Strawberry folk and we know just what 

 we are talking about when we recommend his 

 cracker-jack. 



ONE of the nurseryman's catalogues which 

 has just come to our desk and which pre- 

 sents a handsome face and a valuable interior is 

 the one just issued by W. F. Allen of Salis- 

 bury, Md. The modern catalogue has become 

 a real friend to the practical husbandman, pre- 

 senting the latest and best in the particular lines 

 represented, and giving needed information and 

 advice. Mr. Allen has put out a valuable aid to 

 the horticulturist, and you will enjoy a perusal 

 of his work. 



LIKE so many of our good things, the dis- 

 covery of tha Silver fCing celery was acci- 

 dental. An Elgin County (Ont. ) farmer 

 named Smith grew ordinary celery. One sea- 

 son he had gathered only a part of his crop 

 when winter settled down upon him. In the 

 spring he was astonished to find that some of 

 the abandoned celery was growing up finely. 

 To make a long and interesting story short, 

 Mr. Smith found he had a plant that appears 

 likely to revolutionize the celery industry. 

 Greening Bros., the well known nurserymen, 

 of Monroe, Mich., have bought the exclusive 

 rights in the Silver King, and you should write 

 them for full information. It is claimed for 

 this remarkable plant that it is everlasting and 

 perfectly hardy in any clime, and so prolific is 

 it that four or five plants are sufficient to supply 

 the entire family with delicious celery. 



MANY strawberry folk engage to a greater 

 or less extent in the production of corn. 

 To those who do so we take especial pleasure 

 in calling attention to the advertisement of A. 

 T. Doerr & Son of Han'el, 111. , on another 

 page in this magazine. The corn grown by 

 the Messrs. Doerr is famous for its fine quality 

 and great productive power, and a few bushels 

 of such seed as they produce will give larger 

 results than many bushels of a less vigorous 

 sort. Mr. Doerr began the work of breeding 

 corn for seed many years ago, and he has suc- 

 ceeded in producing varieties that are not to be 

 excelled. He makes an attractive proposition; 

 if you are contemplating planting corn he offers 

 you an opportunity to test the value of pure- 

 bred seed corn at so slight a cost that you can 

 not afford to let it pass. Send for catalogue. 



