THE STRAWBERRY JUNE 1906 



lines in the Atlantic seaboard region, that 

 section by no means has a monopoly upon 

 the strawberry business of the Southern 

 states. And this season has more than 

 realized the high expectations of our 

 friends in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, 

 Arkansas, Tennessee, and others of the 

 middle Southern states, where immense 

 crops of berries of extra-fine quality have 

 been and are being shipped to the vora- 

 cious North. The gloomy predictions 

 of the early season, when it was feared 

 that frosts and heavy rains had damaged 

 the crop to a considerable degree have 

 not been realized, and the magnitude of 

 the business from these states has been 

 little short of phenomenal. 



An interesting incident, which brings 

 the strawberry crop of Louisiana and the 

 California earthquake into what may be 

 termed pleasant juxtarelations, was the 

 selling of the fruit for the benefit of the 

 San Francisco sufferers. In one day 

 $921.50 was realized from miscellaneous 

 fruit sales and the New Orleans States 

 thus describes what was to take place the 

 next: "Luscious strawberries that will 

 make your mouth water will be on sale 

 Friday from 7 o'clock in the morning till 

 they are all sold. Strawberries with tint 

 as red as the lips of the fair Southern 

 maids who will sell them for the benefit 

 of the Frisco sufferers." 



Berries that serve thus to alleviate the 

 sufferings of our fellows must indeed be 

 doubly sweet. 



Not only has the South enjoyed a fine 

 season with its strawberries, but from all 

 over the Pacific Coast country come re- 

 ports of unusual success in this direction. 

 Out in the Hood River region of Oregon, 

 the results have been something marvel- 

 ous in the way of yield and fine fruit, and 

 Idaho, Washington and California join 

 in the reports of the most encouraging 

 nature. A dispatch under date of May 5 

 reports that William H. Pastorious resid- 

 ing near Findley, Washington, brought 

 in the first full crate of strawberries on 

 the 4th of May. This crate was sold 

 for $25 as a mark of popular interest in 



Hallock's Two-Horse 



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PATSNTED AND PATENT APPLIED POO 



V>f\tQtf\ Crmi^Prcl We hear that our competitors' 

 rUldlU VjlUWCl bl agents are defaming our O. K. 



Well, we seek a better acquaintance, and will be pleased to enter a field contest any- 

 where east of the Mississippi river on condition that each and every competitor shall 

 place $100 in the hands of the owner of the field, to be awarded to the competitor 

 adjudged as having the highest degree of merit by judges chosen, one by each compet- 

 itor, and three other men acceptable to all competitors. 

 WHO WILL ARRANGE FOR SUCH A CONTEGT? 



Guaranteed as Good as the Best 



D. Y. HALLOCK & SONS, 8^1 YORK, PA. 



We have a Rich Field for Agents 



the receipt of the initial crate for the 

 season. 



The Columbia Commission Co. of 

 Kennewick, Washington, reports that 

 10,000 crates have been grown in that 

 section this season as compared with 

 7,000 for 1905, and this notwithstanding 

 the fact that the cold snap of March cut 

 down the total \'ield considerably. The 

 first quart of strawberries delivered into 

 Kennewick brought $1.50. 



Perhaps nothing better could illustrate 

 the ubiquitous nature of the strawberry 



LOADING CARS ON THE ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILWAY IN NATIONAL STRAWBERRY PATCH 



plant and the ease with which it adapts 

 itself to every climate and soil, than the 

 illustrations which we show this month 

 of strawberries growing from the North 

 Pacific country to Cuba, and the univer- 

 sal note of prosperity that comes to us 

 from every section is of the most en- 

 couraging nature. 



WHENEVER the railway managers 

 prick up their ears and give partic- 

 ular attention to any industry, it is a 

 pretty good sign that the business in 

 question is becoming of large importance. 

 Railways are big themselves, and while, 

 in the nature of the case, a multitude of 

 little things make up the sum total of 

 their annual business, the fact remains 

 that to receive particular attention at their 

 hands a commercial or industrial or agri- 

 cultural interest must be of size. We 

 have referred to the fact that the Atlantic 

 Coast Line and the Southern railways 

 in the seaboard South were giving special 

 attention this year to the strawberry busi- 

 ness of that section. We are advised 

 that the Queen and Crescent route is 

 running special trains from the Tennessee 

 strawberry fields to Cincinnati on passen- 

 ger-schedule time. One leaves Chatta- 

 nooga at 5:30 each evening and arrives at 

 Cincinnati at 5 the next morning; the . 

 other leaves Chattanooga at 10:40 p. m,, 

 and arrives at Cincinnati at 8:15 a. m. 



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