THE STRAWBERRY APRIL 1906 



The Old Reliable New American Cultivator Sold on an Entirely New 

 Plan. We Let You Test it on Your Own Farm a Full Month— FREE 



PROBABLY no Riding Cultivator is so well and 

 favorably known to the farmers of this country, 

 from East to West and from North to South, as 

 the New American. We have sold them for 

 many years and they have always given and are now giv- 

 ing splendid satisfaction. Now we are offering this Old 

 Reliable New American Cultivator on an entirely new 

 plan. 



We have been selling to the dealers, but, realizing that 

 we could serve our real customers, the farmers, to bet- 

 ter advantage if we were doing business with them direct, 

 we recently changed our Entire Sales Organization, and 

 are now selling all the product of our Factory direct to 

 the farmers who use the machines. 



The New American Spring Tooth Cultivator is a suc- 

 cess because the Lock Levers positively control the 

 Teeth. Spring Teeth are ideal for all kinds of cultivation 

 — they vibrate in the soil, they break up the lumps and 

 scatter the fine soil loosely over the surface, they do not 

 pack the soil but pick it up and let light and air, life and 

 vigor into it. They do not merely plow through the land 

 leaving it in ridges, but cultivate ail the surface^ leaving 

 it fine and level. 



But, to do good work, they must be controlled by ma- 

 chinery. The vibration which makes them so valuable 

 to the soil, makes it impossible to hold them securely by 

 hand or foot. That is where the New American Culti- 

 vator does its part. Notice the little wheels from which 

 the sections hang. See the bars on which they roll. 

 These bars are Locked securely in any position in which 

 they are placed, by the LOCK LEVERS which are within 

 easy reach from the seat. 



The sections roll from side to side with entire freedom; 

 a boy can guide them easily, and they do not swing up 

 out of the ground, but are always doing the same level 

 cultivating. 



We furnish a Center Section with 5 teeth with each 

 Spring Tooth Cultivator. This makes a splendid Har- 

 row for fitting your ground. We can also supply Broad- 

 cast Seeder Attachment, or Bean Harvester Attachment, 

 or both. 



Now we have only just touched upon one good point of 

 the New American Cultivator. There are many more, 

 and they are all explained in our Cultivator Book, which 

 we want to send you. 



Our Liberal Proposition 



And we want, not only to send you the Book which 

 tells about the good points on our Cultivator, but we 

 want to send you the machine itself, so that you can 



find out for yourself about its 

 merits. 



We will send you a New 

 American Cultivator on trial 



at our own expense. You 

 needn't even stand the freight. 

 Simply send us a trial order for 

 the New American Cultivator, 

 and we will ship one to your 

 railroad station, freight prepaid. 

 You don't pay us anything. We 

 don't ask you to make any de- 

 posit. You just take the Culti- 

 vator home and use it a month 

 FREE on your own farm. Give 

 it a good slif! test. Cultivate 

 wjih it just as if it was your 

 own. 



If you don't find it exactly as 

 represented —if it don't show up 

 to be all we claim, take it to the 

 railroad station and tell the 

 agent to ship it back to us at our 

 expense. The use you have had 

 of it won't cost you a penny. ' 



If the Cultivator is as repre- 

 sented you can pay as suits your 

 convenience. We will allow you 



any reasonable time. How's ^^^^^^^^^^^^^" 

 that for a fair proposition? 



You see we are not new in the agricultural implement 

 business. We have been making Cultivators about as 

 long as any house in existence. 



Our capital is large enough to enable us to buy mater- 

 ials in quantity. We don't buy anything but the best. 

 The machinery in our factory is all high-grade. We have 

 all the latest labor-saving devices. Our men have been 

 with us for years. They know Cultivators from the 

 ground up, and can make them just right every time. 

 This means the finest Cultivators that can be turned out. 

 And at lowest cost consistent with the high standard of 

 quality we maintain. It means that when you buy a New 

 American you get a hundred cents worth of Cultivator 

 for every dollar you invest. 



You Buy from the Makers 



We sell our entire output direct to the farmers. Doing 

 business this way keeps us in close touch with the users 

 of our cultivators. 



If you need new parts at any time, or there is anything 

 you want to know, all you have to do is to write to us 



direct. You know where to find us. We know who you 

 are. You get q*jick attention, and all your dealings are 

 direct with the Maker who knows all about your machine. 

 If you want to try a New American on this offer of ours 

 you ought to write to us at once. The direct to you, 30 

 days* FREE test, and long-time terms plan is bring- 

 ing us hosts of orders, and we are already working over- 

 time to supply the demand. Our New American Culti- 

 vator Book tells the rest of the story about the New 

 American Cultivator and it tells all about the New Plan 

 on which we are selling it. Just say in a letter or on a 

 postal card, '"Send me your New Cultivator Book", and 

 you will receive it by return mail, with full particulars 

 about our Liberal Free Test and On Time propositions. 

 Address - 



American Harrow Co., 



4536 Hastings Street, 



DETROIT, - - - - MICHIGAN 



were the largest ones small at first. I 

 am not now referring to those small 

 plants which grew in the bed as thick as 

 the hairs on a dog's back, but the small 

 plants that grow at the end of the run- 

 ners. The large stocky plants have their 

 fruit in an embryo form started in them 

 and this fruit prevents them from making 

 the most plants. But the smaller ones 

 are the plant-makers. Please keep in 

 mind that we are speaking particularly 

 about those varieties that are notably poor 

 plant makers, and I now repeat that the 

 small plants of these varieties will pro- 

 duce more runner plants than the large, 

 stocky plants of the same variety. 

 Plenty of water and stable manure will 

 grow plants on most any soil. 



Weston, Mass. 



FREE strawberries for Canada are 

 asked for in a bill introduced into 

 Congress by Representaiive Thomas, of 

 North Carolina. There is now a duty 

 of two cents a pound on strawberries and 

 other berries imported into Canada from 

 the United States. This doesn't do the 



Canadians any particular good, and it 

 hurts the market for the American fruit. 

 Mr. Thomas wants the president author- 

 ized to make a treaty with King Edward 

 by which this duty would be removed. 



Reports From the Field 



THE situation as regards strawberry 

 production is quite as cheerful as 

 could be desired. Away down 

 South "in the land of cotton" a recent 

 cold wave did considerable damage to the 

 crop, and reports from Louisiana and 

 North Carolina estimate the damage in 

 some sections to represent about 30 per 

 cent of the crop. Florida has been eat- 

 ing and shipping the fruit since early 

 February, and all along the gulf and 

 away over in Texas the same pleasant ex- 

 perience has been had for weeks. In the 

 neighborhood of Wilmington, N. C, the 

 world's most wonderful strawberry cen- 

 ter, they are counting upon shipping 

 2,250 carloads, or 18,000,000 quarts, 

 during the season, estimated to be worth 

 to the producers about $3,000,000. The 



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berries are reported as giving especially 

 fine promise this season. The Atlantic 

 Coast Line railway is to put on a night 

 strawberry express to the North and the 

 car lines promise first-class service. 



Some extraordinary figures come to us 

 from the South. For instance, one 

 grower at Plant City, (Fla.) is said to 

 have shipped $2,300 worth of strawber- 

 ries from two and a half acres. It sug- 

 gests how large are the possibilities in 

 strawberry culture. 



Secretary E. A. Pugh of the Hoffman 

 Fruit Growers' Association of Durant, 

 Miss., writes The Strawberry that the 

 plants bloomed two weeks earlier than 

 usual this season and suffered somewhat 

 from frost, but that from 150 to 200 car- 

 loads will be shipped from there this sea- 

 son, a substantial increase over 1905. 

 There are 1,000 acres in strawberries in 

 Holmes county in which Durant is lo- 

 cated. Reports from other Mississippi 

 points are equally encouraging. 



B. A. Hastings, secretary of the Sum- 

 ner County Assoc' ation at Gallatin, Tenn., 

 writes us: "The outlook for strawberries 



