THE STRAWBERRY APRIL 1 



906 



WANTED-IOOO OF THE STRAWBERRY 

 GROWERS TO TEST 



DOERR'S YELLOW DENT CORN 



In loot;. Orii:iii;it.'d hv us in liMlL'. Stands 

 without a successful rival in thi- com Im-K to- 

 day. We start you with four pounds scd. de- 

 livered at your door bv U. S. mail for .f 1 .00 

 Kiioiisli to ffrow'35 to 40 bushels. 

 Why not test it I We are in earnest in the mat - 

 ter. and L'ive you the Harvel Bank as refer- 

 ence as to our reliabilitj". 



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 the small fruit grower can raise 



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T. H. Smallwood, 'k"!? Fort Scott, Kas. 



The Best Fruit Paper 



is The Fruit-Ornwer. published monthly at St. Joseph. 

 Mo. Tlie ret'uliir subscription price is a dollar a Year 

 butifyu will write for freesaniplecopv and mention 

 this paper. y..u will receive a prup..sitiiin wlierclivyou 

 may secure it one year WITHOUT (_'< >ST. Everyone 

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ST JOSEPH. MISSOURI 



Every is^-ue is handsomely illustrated and from 'i-: to 64 

 pages a month are filled with intci estini; nintter per- 

 taininu to fruit-pinwiny and Kanien- 

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 hands-'ine special nunibeis devoted to 

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 Mi'i-ticultui-al Societies; February. 

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Fruit-Grower (q. 167 S. 7th, St. Joseph, Mo. 



quired to raise all the strawberries he 

 could possibly consume than the patch of 

 cabbage he always raises, how much bet- 

 ter fed would his family be. There is a 

 host of my co-workers who like myself 

 will learn from a careful study of The 

 Strawberry the things that willenable us 

 to become experts in berry culture, and 

 Three Rivers will become a familiar 

 household word in homes whose inmates 

 now could hardly locate it on the map. 

 That it has a big field before it, and a 

 very useful one, is clearly to be seen, and 

 its success already is assured. 



Fairfield, la. 



A NYONE who doubts that there is 

 ■'»• money in bee-keeping need only to 

 look up statistics on the honey crop of 

 the United States to find out what a great 

 marketable article honey is. In the year 

 1900 the total amount of capital invested 

 in bees in the United States was $10,- 

 196,000. The returns from the National 

 honey crops that same year were $6,665,- 

 000 — a dividend of 65 per cent on the 

 amount invested. What other crop pays 

 this rate of interest? At a recent conven- 

 tion of the bee-keepers of the state of 

 Massachusetts — the fact was revealed 

 that only forty tons of honey is raised an- 

 nually in that state, while the amount of 

 honey consumed each twelve months 

 amounts to more than 200 tons. Honey 

 always is a ready seller, and the price per 

 pound averages anywhere from 12 to 20 

 cents, depending upon the locality and 

 quality. A good hive of bees in the av- 

 erage locality will produce about 75 

 pounds of honey per year and pay 50 per 

 cent on the investment the first season. 

 Get posted on bee-keeping if you seek a 

 pleasant and profitable occupation, writes 

 T. P. Hallock of Medina Ohio 



npHAT the people of the South are 

 •^ quite as willing to pay for good 

 strawberries as are Northerners is indi- 

 cated by the prices paid down there for 

 early berries this season. The first four 

 crates to reach Houston, Texas, for in- 

 stance, netted the grower $52.05, and 

 thirty-six crates that followed netted 

 $380. We repeat what we said in The 

 Strawberry for February, that the North- 

 ern growers of late berries, could, if they 



FRUITMEN 



SHOULD KEEP BEES 



There will be a nice income to 



you from a few hives of bees, 



and your 



Plants will Bear Better 



Fruit bearinii depends upon the fertilization of the 

 flowers. Why not make fertilization certain and at 

 the same time add to your income by keepin;; bees/ 

 Bees are not expensive and can be made extremely 

 profitable. Do you want to know how.' <Mir printed 

 matter will start you ritrht. Mimy 

 interestiuy booklets fre**. 



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WHAT ONE OF OUR AGENTS DID 



IN ONE AFTERNOON^ 



Eleroy, 111., March 12, 1906. 

 Kellogg Publishing Co., Three Rivers, Mich'. 



Gentlemen: — The sample copies of The Strawberry came this 

 noon. This afternoon I got four subscriptions and an ad. of tliirty- 

 five words for three insertions. Enclosed find money order for $4.58. 



S. S. TURNIR. 



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YOU CAN DO AS WELL 



Read our great ofTer in another place in this issue, 

 and gel lo work at once. Everybody subscribes if 

 given a chance to learn the merits of The Strawberry 



