THE STRAWBERRY APRIL 1906 



A KALAHAZOO 



DIRECT TO YOU 



WHY not sa^'e ntoney in your stove and 

 range buying? 



Why not get areally sood stove or 

 range while you are about it? 



Here's a Kalamazoo Royal Steel Range— one 

 of the many of the Kalamazoo-direct-to-you 

 family. 



It is guaranteed, under a $20,000 bank bond to 

 be strictly high grade in every respect. 



The body is made of Wellsville blue polished 

 steel— the highest grade steel procurable. 



Not an ounce of scrap iron enters into it. The 

 tops and centers are cut and braced in such a 

 manner that we guarantee them against warp- 

 ing loz Jive years. 



The linings ar e heavy and the flues and all oth- 

 er parts where it is necessary are lined with^'(-;/«- 

 ine asbestos, held between two sheets of steel. 



The oven is square and large, with a bottom 

 that rrt«K('^ warp or ''buckle." The oven venti- 

 lation is iierfect, making it a quick and even 

 baker. 



The oven is equipped with patented oven ther- 

 mometer wliich gives perfect control of the 

 oven's temperature and makes good baking and 

 roasting an easy matter. It saves time, trouble, 



Quality is our first consideration, and our 32 

 years experience in building and selling stoves 

 and ranL'es has taught us hoiv to make a range 

 which we can put in comparison with any other 

 in the world. 



Quality should also be your first consideration. 

 You cannot afford to buy a poor range at any 

 price, especially — and here's the point— 



When you can buy this high grade Kalamazoo 

 — or any other of the Kalamazoo line of ranges, 

 cook stoves, base burners and heating stoves of 

 11 kinds — at a price lotver than your dealer pays 



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 and fuel, and is guaranteed not to get out of for stoves and r a n^'cs not the equal of the Kala- 



order. 



The hot water reservoir is large; is 

 lined with white enamel and is easily re- 

 moved for cleaning. 



The fire bos is equipped with either a 

 duples or a dock ash grate as desired, 

 and either hard or soft coal or coke or 

 wood may be used for fuel. 



It is handsomely finished, all the orna- 

 mental p-.rts being heavily nickeled. fWe 

 do all our own nickel-plating, and do it 

 right. 



The riveting, the mounting, the finishing, are 

 all done by hajid. by expert workmen, and we 

 guarantee that there is not a better designed, a 

 better made, a better finished, or a more dura- 

 ble stove or range in the world, than is the 

 Kalamazoo 



Please Remember: 



We are actual manufacturers, not mail 

 order dealers. 



We have more than 50,000 customers- 

 all satisfied. 



You run no risk, as we give you a 360 

 days approval test. 



We pay the freight. 



We make you actual factory prices. 



We sell you a stove or range not ex= 

 celled by any in the world. 



Please read that again. 



You pet a Kalamazoo, freight frepaid, 

 ona3b0d.iys approval test, guaranteed 

 under a S2(l,00O bank bond, with privi- 

 lege of returning to us at any time within 

 3oO days, if it shows any faults or defects 

 — and all at a /ejj/r/Vf than your dealer 

 pays for many stoves and ranges not 

 nearly so good. 

 Here's the secret: 



We are manufacturers — actual manu- 



factururs and we sell to you direct from 



our factory at Unvest factory prices, saving you 



all dealers", jobbers', agents', and middlemen's 



prolits and commissions. 



We have more than 50,000 customers in all 

 parts of the United States. Their letters show 

 that they have saved from SS to 540 by 

 buying a Kalamazoo direct from our factory. 



We will be glad to send you the names of our 

 customers in your vicinity. Let them tell you 

 what they think. 



The Kalamazoo line is rcwr/i/f/^— embracing 

 r.'inges, cook stoves, base burners and heaters 

 for fuel of all sorts, all of late design, handsome 

 pattern and beautiful finish. 

 Send for our catalogue. 



You will find in it the stove or range exactfy 

 suited to your purpose, and you will be able to 

 purchase it at a money-saving price. 



Don't you think it a proposition worth looking 

 into? Let us send you our free catalogue and 

 price list. You'll be interested and pleased. 



Ask for Catalogue No. 348. 



Kalamazoo Stove Co., Mfrs., Kalamazoo, Mich. 



of the scare-crow. And we miijht add a 

 word for the robins, which are among 

 the most useful of our friends, eating the 

 grub worm and other insect destroyers of 

 the strawberry in great numbers, 



J. A. W. , Bowbells, N. D. 1 find some va- 

 cancies in my strawberry rows, and I wish to 

 fill in these vacancies from my own plants. 

 Shall I dig them this fall and heel in till 

 spring, or how may I manage them. 



It will be a good plan to take enough 

 plants from each row to fill in the vacan- 

 cies, but do not disturb the plants until 

 spring, when they are in a dormant state. 

 In removing them take up enough earth 

 with them to prevent any check in growth. 

 By so doing they will be able to produce 

 a few berries without much injury, 



E. C, Monson, Mass. Are the common 

 blackeye pea good to sow for plowing under? 

 Is there any reason why I should not grow 

 two crops of peas before sowing rye.' 



Peas of any kind belong to the family 

 of legumes and all are excellent soil-im- 

 provers. Anything that develops a pod 

 is a legume, and all legumes have the 

 power to draw the free nitrogen from the 

 air and store it in their roots. This free 

 nitrogen is transformed into available 



plant food by bacteria, which acts upon 

 it much as yeast germs do in bread. The 

 vines, or woody part of the peas, add 

 humus to the soil. Humus warms the 

 earth, thus encouraging bacterial activity 

 and preserving a more even temperature; 

 makes it more friable, adds to its spongy 

 nature so that it retains moisture better 

 and causes it to yield moisture more 

 evenly and for longer periods to the plant. 

 It will be unnecessary to plow under two 

 crops of covvpeas before sowing rye in 

 preparing your soil for strawberries. The 

 e.xpense would be greater than the in- 

 creased returns would justify. 



J. J. H. , Bellefontaine, Ohio. How would it 

 do to sprinkle fertilizer around the berries, 

 say in the month of June or July, and culti- 

 vate it in with a hoe, or would you advise 

 putting it in before the berries are set out.' 

 2. Would you advise cutting the first run- 

 ners off, and letting the mother plant get a 

 good start, or let the "children" go to making 

 their own living as soon as possible? 



You would get better results by sprink- 

 ling the fertilizer around the plants early 

 in the spring, btit do not put it on very 

 heavily and not very close to the plants. 

 Another good way is to make a furrow 

 and scatter the fertilizer along in it; cul- 

 tivate it in and then set the plants where 

 the furrow was made after it has been 



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filled in. While cultivating the furrow 

 in, mi.x the soil and fertilizer well to- 

 gether and the plants will get the full 

 benefit of it. 



2. If the mother plant has made a 

 good growth and seems strong and healthy, 

 it will be all right to let the first runners 

 start, but if they seem to be lagging in 

 any way, we would cut the first runners 

 ofF. Just as soon as the children get 

 their roots into the soil they start feeding 

 from mother earth. This lessens the 

 strain on the mother plants. 



C. H., Creighton, Mo. 1. Will Excelsior, 

 Warfield and Lovett yield as well in hills as 

 the Crescent? 2. How should I mate the 

 following varieties for best results: Excel- 

 sior, Warfield, Crescent, Lovett, Senator 

 Dunlap, Haverland, Gandy, Pride of Mich- 

 igan and Sample? 3. Will it be all right to 

 keep all runners cut off until the first or mid- 

 dle of July? 



1, The varieties you name do well 

 when set in hills; but we prefer that they 

 be grown in single or double hedge rows. 

 The Excelsior does splendidly in hills, 

 because it builds up a large foliage and 

 crown system, same as does the Crescent, 



2, First set Excelsior, then follow 

 with Warfield, Dunlap, Haverland, 

 Lovett, Sample, Pride of Michigan and 

 Gandy. In following this order you 



