THE STRAWBERRY APRIL 1906 



finer berries were shipped into Fargo dur- 

 ing the entire season, even from tiie 

 Hood river country. 



Before taking my seat I want to say 

 that my interest in strawberry culture 

 dates baclc to 1880 when I first came to 

 this country. I read and studied a good 

 deal on the subject, but it ended just 

 where it began. In the meantime I 

 have paid out several hundred dollars for 

 fruit, a large percentage of which, by the 

 time it reached here, was hardly fit for 

 use, when at the same time with a very 

 little trouble I could have been raising 

 the most delicious fruit and plenty of it 

 in my own garden. I believe there is 

 scarcely a section of land in the Red River 

 valley but in some parts of which good 

 crops of strawberries could be raised. 

 The land from which I harvested my 

 crop has no natural advantages over the 

 ordinary prairie land in regard to natural 

 drainage, the fertility of the soil, or pro- 

 tection, and any man that can raise good 

 corn or good potatoes can with a little 

 variation raise good strawberries. And to 

 those who intend to start a bed let me 

 say, select a clean piece of ground, having 

 fairly good drainage. Put on a liberal 

 coat of manure, plow and work down 

 fine, get good, healthy plants, and if 

 throughout the season you will do your 

 part I venture to prophecy that very soon 

 you will raise the most delicious fruit and 

 prove to the doubting Thomases who 

 have said that we can't raise fruit in 

 North Dakota that in making that state- 

 ment they have been committing a gross 

 libel against the country and didn't know 

 the possibilities of North Dakota as a 

 fruit-growing state." 



We ha\e heard what the governor of 

 North Carolina said to the governor of 

 South Carolina. We suggest that the 

 governor of North Dakota might say to 

 the governor of North Carolina a much 

 more important and beneficial word. He 

 might say, for instance, in the days of 

 June and July, when the South no longer 

 enjoys the cooling and health-giving 

 strawberr)': "Let's take a strawberrj', 

 grown on the broad and fertile prairies of 

 North Dakota, so close to the north pole 

 that Aurora Borealis paints the sky at 

 night with its effulgent glories — a straw- 

 berry so solid that we can ship it under 

 refrigeration to the Florida Keys under 

 the hottest July sun, and sweet and rich 

 of flavor beyond compare." 



And we make no doubt that the gov- 

 ernor of South Carolina and all his peo- 

 ple would be glad if the enterprising folk 

 of the North state should set up com- 

 merce of this sort with them. 



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PJIGURE up what poor quality and 

 *■ slim quantity strawberries cost you 

 last year and, our word for it, you will be 

 disgusted with yourself for going so long 

 without your own patch, with its ample 



supply of cool, fresh, high-flavored ber- 

 ries ready on demand to give yourself 

 and friends such a treat as nothing else in 

 the world may supply. Better consider 

 this now before it is too late to remedy. 



UNITED we win, divided we fail, is 

 a good pharaphrase of that old-time 

 and true aphorism, which our forefathers 

 so aptly employed to bring about a union 

 of the states. Our strawberry friends 

 ought to recognize in the thought a great 



source of power, and apply it immedi. 

 ately to the cure of untoward conditions. 

 A few days ago our strawberry friends 

 on the Kansas City Southern railway 

 rose up in protest against the rates 

 charged for service. Instead of rushing 

 about as individuals, raining execrations 

 upon the heads of the railway manage- 

 ment, these wise growers got together, 

 formulated their reasons for complain' 

 and their demands for reform, and went 

 unitedly to the railroad company. They 

 were met in the spirit in which they 



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