THE STRAWBERRY APRIL 1906 



grew them, find a large and generous 

 market for very large quantities of straw- 

 berries. However, the Northern states 

 will continue to absorb thousands of car- 

 loads of late-grown berries in excess of 

 what now is offered them, and it is likely 

 to be a long time before Northern-grown 

 berries will reach the hungry folk of the 

 South. But what an opportunity for a 

 lot of enterprising folk if they would 

 utilize the cheap but fruitful lands of 

 northern Michigan, Wisconsin and Min- 

 nesota, as might easily and inexpensively 

 be done, in the growing of late straw- 

 berries! 



f F you'd ha\e a garden neat 



* Do it nou'; 



If you'd have strawberries sweet, 



Do it now. 

 Spring is coming on a pace; 

 She'll give you a merry race, 

 If you trespass on her grace — 



Do it now! 



When Old Age Comes On 



I ENCLOSE a dollar, and I want The Straw- 

 ■* berry. While I am not in the business as 

 yet of growing anything, I anticipate doing 

 something of the kind in the near future, and 

 your plan strikes me as being the proper thing. 

 I am a railroader, but I have a continual hanker- 

 ing after a more independent life; besides, my 

 age soon will shelve me as an active man; but 

 am still not old enough to kill as some advo- 

 cate. But I do love soil culture, and had con- 

 siderable experience in younger days. I hope 

 by spring to be in shape to put out some plants. 

 Louisiana, Mo. R. M. S. 



THERE is something pathetic in 

 that frank letter from a man who 

 has given his life to service as a 

 railway man, and now, with the frosts of 

 winter showing in his hair, turns back to 

 Mother Earth as the source of subsis- 

 tence and support in his declining years. 

 What this friend writes is but the expres- 

 sion of thousands in like situation and 

 possessed of like feelings and desires, and 

 it gives the publishers of this magazine 

 great satisfaction to know that they may 

 be of help to such as he in getting started 

 on the right road to success and an inde- 

 pendent old age. 



An independent old age! Who but 

 looks hopefully to that goal as the su- 

 preme earthly desire.'' Just as there is 

 nothing more sad and more wretched 

 than dependent old age, so there is no- 

 thing else that brings so great joy to later 

 years as the assurance that in the days 

 when the sun of life is westering there 

 shall be no want, no poverty; but com- 

 fort, cheer and plenty. 



And where shall he go but to the 

 warm and generous bosom of Mother 

 Earth, from whose abundance all things 

 material come.^ And to what order of 

 undertaking may he look with greater 

 confidence as the solution of his problem 



than that of strawberry production? We 

 know of none, and with his youthful ex- 

 perience to start in with — as he doubtless 

 was one of the boys that left the farm at 

 the call of the city — he will find it no 

 difficult task to take up the work and 

 carry it forward to success. That he will, 

 like the prodigal son, enjoy the fat of the 

 land and renew his youth in his return to 

 his first love, we have no doubt. 



Haste That Makes Waste 



WILL strawberry plants fruit the 

 same spring they are set out.? 

 This question is more frequently 

 asked us than any other. Especially from 

 new beginners and those wanting berries 

 for family use; and our answer always is 

 this: Plants that are set out this spring 

 would bear fruit, but to allow them to do 

 so will weaken the plants by pollen-ex- 

 haustion and seed-production and per- 

 haps result in killing them; therefore, the 

 loss would be greater than the gain. All 

 newly set strawberry plants should be re- 

 lieved of their buds and blossoms just as 

 soon as they appear. Simply pinch or 

 cut them off. This is an easy job and it 

 pays big to do it. When this is done, it 

 throws all the strength to the mother 

 plants and gives them a chance to send 

 out vigorous runners and develop up a 

 large crown system. 



If a plant is allowed to fruit at once 



after transplanting the great strain of pol- 

 lenating and seed production takes place 

 before the plant is established in its new 

 quarters, and all the vitality that has been 

 stored up in the crown and roots is used 

 up in maturing the fruit, making it al- 



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