THE STRAWBERRY MAY 1906 



fields, they must realize how foolish 

 were their fears, how short-sighted the 

 policy that led to such harmful results. 

 You can put this down as a principle 

 by which to be guided: There never has 

 been an overplus of good strawberries in 

 any of the large markets in this country; 

 so far as now may be judged there never 

 will be. That means that there always 

 will be strong enough demand to con- 

 sume all of the strawberries that are 

 properly grown and properly marketed, 

 and at profitable prices. This being true, 

 no temporary conditions, such as a wet or 

 a dry season, should influence anybpdy 

 to go out of business. Take your gains 

 with thanks and your losses philosophic- 

 ally, knowing that he who works with 

 nature faithfully and does well his part is 

 bound to win oftener than he loses. 



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Strawberries for Select Trade 



COMMERCIAL strawberry grow- 

 ers should, as far as possible, grow 

 for a particular trade. In sections 

 where berries are shipped by the hun- 

 dreds of carloads and markets lie far away 

 from the fields, this is more difficult; still 

 it may be done even there with profit. 

 But where the sale is in the neighborhood, 

 or comparatively near the place grown, 

 and especially where the grower may 

 superintend the marketing, catering to 

 select trade ought always to be the plan 

 adopted. One Maine grower recently 

 had an account of his experiences in the 

 New England Homestead, in which he 

 attributed his success largely to this fact. 

 He says: 



"My success has not been largely due 

 to any special advantages in soil, location 

 or situation, climatic influences, or gen- 

 eral favorings of fortune. In fact, all 

 these have been rather against me, yet I 

 have been very successful with strawberry 

 plants. Before beginning I studied well 

 the essentials of strawberry growing. 

 First, a natural liking for the business; 

 second, determination to leave no stone 

 unturned to get at all the best possible 

 methods of pursuing it, in all its branches, 

 and third, to get the best varieties suit- 

 able to this climate and my trade. 



"I experimented with many varieties, 

 many methods of culture, many fertilizers 

 in many forms of application, in order to 

 find out how I could grow the largest 

 yield of finest fruit at the most profit. It 

 was my purpose to grow berries that my 

 customers would want, as soon as they 

 saw them, so they would be willing to 

 pay a good price for them; I catered for 

 the trade of those who could well afford 

 to pay good prices for fancy berries. 

 The best new variety I tested is the 

 Uncle Jim [known more popularly as the 

 Dornan.] A strong grower, large healthy 

 plant, and large fruit, it has no equal 

 among anything I have ever tested; and 

 as a yielder it is well up with the very 



best. In quality it is fine, and is quite 

 firm. In fact, it is the best all-round 

 variety I have ever seen growing. I feel 

 certain, that with a favorable season, with 

 my method of culture, on two-year-old 

 beds, I can easily gather 10,000 quarts to 

 the acre. I have over one acre of such 

 beds of fruit this season, and, except 

 where deer unfoliaged the plants just be- 

 fore the covering season, nothing was 

 ever seen around here with such heavy 

 foliage when they went under covering 

 for the winter." 



Hygienic Value of the Strawberry 



By Abbie E. Cooper 



THERE are certain micro-organisms 

 that act on the soil and liberate 

 food elements for the use of plants. 

 Some physicians claim that iron requires 

 such a preparation by vegetable organiza- 

 tion, tinctures of iron not being assimi- 

 lated. Instead of using these drugs, 

 physicians prescribe strawberries and such 

 fruits as are rich in these elements and 

 have them in a form in which the body 

 may use them. The juices of such fruits 

 as the strawberry, the apple and some 

 others are the best known solvents and 

 are invaluable as aids in removing waste 

 products from the tissues. 



The analysis of the strawberry, as I 

 find it in Mrs. E. E. Kellogg's Cook 

 Book, is as follows, the figures represent- 

 ing percentages: 



Water - - - - 87.6 



Albumen - - - - 1.1 



Sugai - - - - 6.3 



Free fat - - . _ 5 



Free acid - - - - .9 



Pectose - - - - .5 



Salts - - - - - .fj 



Cellulose - - - - 2. .3 



100.0 

 Aside from, its large proportion of dis- 

 tilled water the strawberry has a nutritive 

 value of about 10 per cent. This is in 



the proportion of six carbonaceous to one 

 nitrogenous, which is the required ratio 

 for a perfect food. 



Seven years ago a friend of mine ob- 

 tained relief from a most obstinate attack 

 of indigestion and constipation by adopt- 

 ing an exclusive diet of strawberries 

 and graham bread. She used absolutely 

 nothing (no sugar or milk with the 

 strawberries) except the bread. She 

 was unable to secure granose, granola or 

 malted nuts, but succeeded without them. 

 She had tried many things before without 

 success before she adopted the strawberry 

 diet. The strawberry is of good value 

 as medicine as well as food and refresh- 

 ment. 



Mt. Blossom Fruit Farm, Mich. 



■==Let us Act as Your Factory= 



THAT'S OUR BUSINESS 



We make nothing of our own for sale. Man- 

 ufacture exclusively for otbers anything in 

 metal. We refer you to the publishers of this 

 magazine. 



Kalamazoo Novelty Co.,M,Vor«icH. 



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