THE STRAWBERRY MAY 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. 



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MAY, 1906 



MAY comes in with smiling face to 

 meet a smiling landscape and finds 

 all the sons of the soil busily at 

 work, and glad to be at work, at so 

 congenial a task. In the strawberry world 

 every aspect of that industry is now to be 

 seen. For weeks the Sunny South has 

 been shipping trainloads of strawberries 

 to the North, where Winter's feet are 

 laggard, for he loves to linger in the lap 

 of Spring. In the Ohio river region 

 berries are "coming on," and as we 

 proceed north we find varying stages of 

 development — development that becomes 

 so attenuated when we reach some of the 

 more northely states and the Dominion 

 as to be almost invisible to the naked eye. 

 That every man and woman in the land, 

 and every one of our younger friends, too, 

 who are engaged in this delightful labor 

 shall find the season of 1906 one of large 

 profit and pleasure, is the sincere wish of 

 The Strawberry. 



A THOUGHT-PROVOKING pa- 

 per was read by Prof. N. E. Hansen, 

 of the South Dakota Experiment Station, 

 before the Missouri Horticultural Society. 

 While not dealing especially with the 

 strawberry, it indicated the broad lines on 

 which plant-breeding is now being carried 

 forward, and the work which even the 

 amateur may do in aiding the production 

 of new and worthy varieties. All of us 

 may not be Luther Burbanks, but we 

 may give to the world something worth 

 while if we are sincere, intelligent and 

 persistent. Prof. Hansen said: 'We 

 now know that we can produce fruits for 

 different purposes, and we are practically 

 unlimited, up to a certain point, in our 

 operations. It is simply a question as to 

 whether we are willing to grow enough 

 seedlings to produce what we want. 

 Take the matter of getting varieties which 

 are disease-resisting, for instance. We 

 can find varieties not subject to scab to 



any extent, but they may have poor qual- 

 ity; the thing to do is to cross the scab- 

 proof sort with varieties of good quality; 

 plant the seeds from these crosses, and if 

 we grow enough of them we can know 

 that somewhere in the list will be found 

 a variety which is scab-proof, and at the 

 time has good quality. Most of the seed- 

 lings will be worthless, of course — we 

 may grow them by the millions, and all 

 be discarded, but somewhere we will find 

 what we want. It is simply a question 

 of growing enough seedlings." 



WE might wish that more of our 

 friends would take an interest in 

 spreading the gospel of good horticulture 

 by encouraging their neighbors to become 

 regular readers of this magazine. We 

 can't complain of the reception given it, 

 but we know that there are thousands of 

 others who are looking for just what The 

 Strawberry gives its readers — we know 

 this because so many good souls write us 

 of the joy they experience when the fact 

 is called to their attention that such a 

 publication exists. And we don't ask 

 anybody to get out and work us for the 

 love of the thing. We think the "laborer 

 is worthy of his hire," and are glad to pay 

 a generous commission on every subscrip- 

 tion received. Won't you just see if you 

 can't help the good work along by getting 

 your neighbor to subscribe.' 



THE supreme end of life is the making 

 of character, and, as the beauty of 

 the sunset depends largely upon the 

 clouds that have filled the sky, so the 

 clouds of disappointment and failure, 

 burdens and sorrows, cares and crosses, 

 griefs and losses, make possible a soul 

 beauty that were without them impossi- 

 ble.— P. H. Swift. 



FEW features about the home beautiful de- 

 serve greater consideration than the lawn and 

 yard surrounding it. One of the first aids to a 

 fine lawn is a good lawn mower, and we are 

 pleased to introduce to our readers this month 

 the "Clipper Lawn Mower" whose very con- 

 struction is a guarantee of its quality and work. 

 The reader will observe that the cutter bar is 

 directly in front of the wheels. The wheels 

 travel over the ground where the grass is cut, 

 never rolling down the standing grass as so 

 many lawn mowers do. The small gauge 

 wheels at the side are to gauge the height you 

 wish to cut the grass. These features are 

 unique. The Clipper Lawn Mower Co.'s 

 works are located at Dixon, 111. You should 

 make the acquaintance of this company. 



THE first care of good farmers is the best pos- 

 sible seed bed. That is the end sought in 

 the Acme harrow — the perfect seed bed. With 

 the disc, one kind of soil preparation is obtained ; 

 with the straight-tooth harrow another; with 

 cultivator teeth, still another. The Aciue har- 

 row secures all the good points of each of these 

 and it adds another feature just as important as 

 any, namely, that of breaking and crushing the 

 clods. After plowing, the whole matter of 

 right preparation for planting seed is compre- 



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hended in crushing and pulverizing the clods, 

 stirring the soil and leveling it up. There is 

 ample reason for the hearty commendation that 

 every user gives his Acme harrow. Good farm- 

 ers value good work, and the Acme harrow pre- 

 pares the soil most perfectly. That is why 

 we say, look into it, if you will need a harrow 

 this spring. 



AMONG the growing institutions that make 

 Kalamazoo famous as the center of import- 

 ant industrial enterprises is the Kalamazoo Car- 

 riage and Harness Manufacturing Company. 

 This institution makes everything connected 

 with equines and equine equipages, and makes 

 a product it is proud to show to the world and 

 to test by actual use. They manufacture for 

 the great American public and will ship com- 

 plete outfits, or any part of an outfit, anywhere. 

 It is the claim of this great company that itsav.es 

 its customers money every time. These goods 

 will be shipped to you for examination and sub- 

 ject to your approval. A postal card addressed 

 to the Kalamazoo Carriage' and Harness Mfg. 

 Co., Box 244, Kalamazoo, Mich., will bring 

 you a fund of interesting information that will 

 be of real value to you. 



YV^E are pleased to welcome to our advertising 

 W pages the Progressive Vehicle Manufac- 

 turing Company of Ft. Wayne, Ind., a house 

 that has won so excellent a reputation for quality 

 of product and square dealing that it makes the 

 unusual offer of three years' guarantee and thirty 

 days'-f ree trial before purchase need be completed. 

 This company manufacturers its own goods, 

 and finds that the most satisfactory way to deal 

 with the consuming public is to sell direct to the 

 man who buys for use, thus eliminating middle- 

 men's profits. Address the Progressive Vehicle 

 Mfg. Co., Department V, Ft. Wayne, Ind., 

 and get their complete catalogue. 



EVERYBODY who is interested in bees or 

 bee culture unconsciously associates the 

 name of A. I. Root with all things pertaining to 

 that line. Mr. Root has been the means, per- 

 haps more than any other single individual, of 

 organizing that great and growing industry up- 

 on a practical basis , and the success he has 

 achieved in this direction is reflected in the 

 mammoth plant he has developed at Medina, 

 Ohio, devoted exclusively to the manufacture 

 of everything that will economize or make mors 

 pleasurable and profitable the production of 

 honey. Strawberry folk ought to be interested 

 in the bee and its product. Strawberries and 

 bees form a combined opportunity for intelligent 

 endeavor that is worth seizing hold upon. If 

 you are interested and want to know more about 

 it, that compendium of bee lore, "The A. B. 

 C. of Bee Culture," will point the way to suc- 

 cess. Send for the free booklet put out by the 

 A. I. Root Co., Medina, Ohio, anyway, and 

 mention that you saw it in The Strawberry. 



IT is not surprising that the Wallace Machin- 

 ery Co. management is gratified over the 

 action of the United States Government in pur- 

 chasing two of the Wallace Sprayers for use at 

 experiment stations. Everybody likes to have 

 Uncle Sam for a customer, and it is very certain 

 that, with the growing popularity of the spray- 

 ing machine in all horticultural lines and the 

 rapid development of the agricultural work of 

 the government through the department of agri- 

 culture and the colleges and experiment stations 

 devoted to that interest — it is very certain that 

 the company that turns out a sprayer to suit this 

 large interest will receive many orders for its 

 machines. This company is meeting with fine 

 success in pleasing the general public as well, 

 and those who are intending to purchase a 

 sprayer of any sort will do well to write the 

 Wallace Machinery Co., Department 50 

 Champaign, 111., for "The Wallace Spray 

 Way," a littlo book that will tell you all about 

 a good many interesting things relating to 

 methods for producing fine fruits and vegetables. 



