THE STRAWBERRY APRIL 1906 



THE STRAWBERRY 



A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO 

 THE INTERESTS OF STRAWBERRY 

 PRODUCTION IN ALL ITS BRANCHES 



Published the First of Each Month by 



The Kellogg Publishing Company 



Three Rivers, Michigan. 



ROBERT S. FOUNTAIN, 



Advertising Manager, 



47 Plymouth Place, Chicago, 111. 



SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: 

 United States and Canada • - -$1.00 

 Foreign 1.25 



Application made for entry at the post office at 

 Three Rivers, Mich., as second-class matter. 



APRIL, 1906 



APRIL brings many changes, and 

 The Strawberry brings to its read- 

 ers this month a change of face, at 

 at least as to color-efFect. March 

 winds bring a russet hue to the face of 

 man, and our cover presents this month the 

 ruddy glow of springtime vigor, bronzed 

 but beautiful. The artist has made good 

 use of a photographic reproduction of a 

 scene familiar to many, the fine straw- 

 berry bed of Charles Cox, teller in the 

 First National bank of Three Rivers, 

 Mich. The golden orange, the soft 

 grays and deeper-toned effects of the pic- 

 ture are unusually fine, and we are sure 

 our readers will enjoy its artistic quality 

 and dignity. By holding the cover in 

 certain lights the reader will discover 

 some very unusual effects in changing 

 colors, some of them exceedingly rich and 

 beautiful. 



STRAWBERRY folk are offered a free gift 

 by the Gardner Nursery Company of 

 Osage, la. This company offers to send to 

 each of our readers who will ask for them 

 twelve of their beautiful evergreen trees free. If 

 set eight feet apart in a row, these twelve trees 

 would in a few years time make a perfect wind- 

 break 100 feet long. If not wanted for a n ind- 

 break they are of suitable varieties for setting 

 on the lawn, in the cemetery or along the street. 

 This company grows all kinds of hardy nursery 

 stock, and have made a specialty of growing 

 hardy evergreens for nearly forty years, and to 

 prove their hardiness and quality they offer to 

 send twelve fine pines and spruces two years 

 old, entirely free to our readers who apply for 

 them at once. Mailing expense is five cents 

 which you may send or not, as you please. A 

 postal addressed to Box 802, Osage, la., will 

 bring them. This company's catalogue con- 

 tains forty-two colored plates and a mine of 

 valuable information for fruit growers. Sent 

 entirely free to all property owners. 



V^E are in receipt of a letter from Carl Son- 

 •V deregger of Beatrice, Neb., in which he 

 says: "The results from our ad in The Straw- 

 berry were satisfactory, and we shall give you 

 another ad next fall." Mr. Sonderegger is the 

 kind of advertiser it is a pleasure to have such a 

 word from. His name is synonymous with all 

 that is honorable and high-class in nursery stock 



and dealing, and he deserves all that he is get- 

 ting in the way of substantial appreciation. By 

 the way, for the convenience of his patrons, 

 many of whom are compatriots of his and still 

 use the language of the Fatherland, Mr. Son- 

 deregger issues two editions of his catalog — one 

 in English and the other in German. The cat- 

 alog lists a great many good things for the 

 agriculturist and includes not only fruit trees 

 and small fruits but forest tree seedlings and 

 hundreds of choice varieties of tested seeds. Be 

 sure and send for one of these catalogs before 

 ordering your supply of seeds for this season's 

 planting. Address The German Nurseries, 

 Carl Sonderegger, Proprietor, Beatrice, Ne- 

 braska, mentioning The Strawberry. 



BY their fruits ye shall know them," appears 

 to be the test that Stark Bros. , the largest 

 nurserymen in the world, are anxious shall be 

 applied to their fruits. Not only are these gen- 

 tlemen nurserymen, but extensive orchard own- 

 ers as well, and they try for themselves the 

 stock they recommend and sell to others. And 

 the other day the office force of The Strawberry 

 was made glad by the receipt of a box sent 

 them by this couiteous company containing 

 three specimens of as many varieties of apples 

 that it would be hard to beat in any country. 

 They filled the office with their fragrance as 

 long as they were permitted to do so; but with 

 apples at 65 cents a peck that you wouldn't call 

 apples at all in an ordinary season, they were 

 not long in going the way of all good fruit. 

 One was a Black Ben, that Stark Bros.' vigorous 

 battle over and complete victory has made fam- 

 ous among apple folk. We didn't think of 

 weighing it until it was too late; but the mem- 

 ber of the staff who ate that particular apple says 

 he weighed at least three pounds more after do- 

 ing so than before, and felt a good deal more 

 than three pounds happier. Another was a 

 specimen of Stark's Delicious, and the third 

 was a Senator. We could wish our friends no 

 better treat (strawberries excepted) than to have 

 all of these splendid apples they could eat; and 

 if they will write the Starks at Louisiana, Mo., 

 they may learn just how to get them in ample 

 supply. 



INCREASED acreage in small fruits should 

 be the effort this season among all classes of 

 growers. The insistent demands from Chicago, 

 Boston, Phildelphia and St. Louis markets 

 should be planned for and met by farmers and 

 fruit growers, large and small. W. N. Scarff, 

 of New Carlisle, Ohio, says that $300 profit per 

 acre can be made from small fruits. Mr. 

 Scarff's 1906 catalogue is just off the press. It 

 has a handsome cover and the inside of the 

 book is given up to detailed descriptions of 

 small fruits, garden and field seeds, fruit and 

 ornamental trees and other nursery stock. 



IN agriculture as well as in all other businesses, 

 conditions have changed so rapidly of late 

 years that the methods used to successfully 

 carry on the various kinds of work on the aver- 

 age farm have undergone a great change. Re- 

 liable farm help has become so scarce that the 

 farmer must depend on some more efficient and 

 economical method of production than that af- 

 forded by the majority of hired men. Power 

 of some kind is absolutely necessary on every 

 farm of any size that is worked to produce 

 soinething more than "just a living." The 

 most practical and economical power for use on 

 the farm or in tlie shop is furnished by the gas- 

 oline engine. A good gasoline engine always 

 is ready to operate just when you need it. You 

 do not have to wait for steam or go to the ex- 

 pense of hiring an engineer. The farmer has 

 hesitated, however, to invest in such a motive 

 power because of the cost and because so many 

 of these engines are so complicated that they re- 

 quire an expert to set them up and start. But 

 the Lion Engine is an exception. This en- 

 gine is very simple in construction and easily set 

 up and operated; in fact, the manufacturers, 

 the Lyons Engine Company, Lyons, Mich- 

 igan, are selling this engine direct from the fac- 



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tory to user at a price much lower than that 

 asked by other makers who are obliged to sell 

 through dealers. The Lyons people send 

 explicit instructions and directions with each 

 engine, so that it is an easy matter for anyone 

 to start and operate a Lion gas or gasoline en- 

 gine. They also have an easy-payment plan 

 which appeals to many who desire to have the 

 engine pay for itself while in use. Just 

 write the Lyons Engine Co. , at Lyons, Mich- 

 igan, for full information concerning tte Lion 

 Gas or Gasoline engine. And don't forget 

 to mention The Strawberry. 



WHEN D. Y. Hallock & Sons bring out 

 anything new in the way of a potato- 

 handling implement nobody doubts for a mo- 

 ment that it is just as represented and will do 

 the work. That is the priceless value of hav- 

 ing a reputation. Perhaps no other implement 

 invented by the genius that makes that com- 

 pany notable has been of larger importanc to the 

 potato growers of the country than thee O. K. 

 potato elevator digger. If you will obsers'e 

 the cut of this digger as it appears in the adver- 

 tisement of the company in this issue, you will 

 see that the principle of its construction is cor- 

 rect; that by its very form and operation it digs 

 and handles the potato in such a way as to de- 

 liver the tubers without injury, while the 

 rapidity with which it may be done is apparent 

 at a glance. Practical experience fully justifies 

 the company's hopes for the machine. Write 

 for full particulars to D. Y. Hallock & Sons. 

 Box 842, York, Pa. 



THE family garden is something that every 

 American citizen should have, and one of 

 the greatest aids to success and pleasure in this 

 line is the handy seeding and cultivating im- 

 plements made by the Ames Plow company, 

 Boston, Mass. No back-breaking work in 

 getting the seeds into the ground, if you have 

 one of these machines, and the work of culti- 

 vating the crops becomes a positive delight and 

 such exercise as e\ ery healthy man or woman 

 enjoys. A child can operate them. The Ames 

 company manufactures the Matthews and New 

 Universal seed drills, which are marvels of in- 

 ventive genius and accuracy, planting all kinds 

 of seeds and in just the quantity desired. An 

 adjustable agitator in the seed-box regulates the 

 flow of the seed, which is entirely under the 

 control of the operator. 



ATTENTION is called to the new and en- 

 larged advertisement of the Hart Pioneer 

 Nurseries in this issue of The Strawberry. This 

 is an old-established firm, having organized 

 their business in a small way in 1865. At the 

 present time their nurseries comprise more than 

 600 acres and is one of the largest in the West. 

 Thev make a specialty of the mail-order busi- 

 ness and sell their stock direct to the planter at 

 wholesale prices, which saves the consumer all 

 agent's commission. They advertise their 

 stock to be strictly first-class, pure bred in every 

 respect and guaranteed true to name. Drop a 

 card to them asking for their wholesale cata- 

 logue, and just say you saw it in The 

 Strawberry. 



EVERYBODY who ever has used the Planet 

 Jr. tools knows what they stand for in con- 

 venience and economy, and those who use im- 

 plements drawn by horses will be particularly 

 pleased to know that there has been a new addi- 

 tion to the Planet Jr. family for 1906. It is 

 No. 74, and is a two-horse pivot-wheel cultiva- 

 tor, plow, furrower and ridger. This covers 

 the one spot in garden work not previously pro- 

 vided for in the long line of Planet Jr. tools, 

 and we are assured that the new machine pos- 

 sesses more really good points than anything of 

 like kind ever invented. If you garden and are 

 not already provided, you will find the Planet 

 Jrs. to be your kind of tools. It's an old say- 

 ing that there's a Planet Jr. for every need. 

 You will find just what you want in the 1906 

 Allen catalogue. Send for it. It will be mailed 

 free. Write them at Box 1106D, Philadelphia. 



