THE STRAWBERRY JULY 1906 



ries, which accounts for our extremely high 

 prices as compared with others. T o sum 

 it up, a strict and thorough organization, 

 managed by men whose successes are ap- 

 preciated and encouraged by its members 

 is what it takes, provided they are practical 

 strawberry men and willing to give it care- 

 ful attention and study." 



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T^HERE'S so much good in the worst of us, 

 And so much bad in the best of us, 

 That I don't see why any of us 

 Should find much fault with the rest of us." 



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DON'T be an average strawberry 

 grower. That word average has its 

 proper uses, but when it is applied to a 

 man or a woman it appears singularly 

 inapt, if not positively contemptuous. 

 We are striving to help our friends be- 

 come leaders in the strawberry world, 

 and we are confident that every one of 

 them who carefully follows the instruc- 

 tions given in this magazine will reach 

 that distinctive and honorable position. 

 An average man is one who never rises 

 above the level of the mass. His s'raw- 

 berries are "just average in quality and 

 the same in yield. He gets the "average 

 price," and has no earthly leason for get- 

 ting any more than that. Don't stay in 

 the "average" class; get out on the high- 

 lands of quality and excellence. Grow 

 "firsts" in strawberries and command 

 "top" prices. Not only is it profitable 

 in a money way, but it increases the joy 

 of life, makes a delight of your business 

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Mr. Simpson's View of Things 



WELL, sir, I must say that this 

 dry soil is a bit discouragin', 

 although these rains we're get- 

 tin' just now will help things out mighti- 

 ly. Ye see, we didn't get no snow to 

 speak of last winter; never saw so little 

 in all my born days, an' Lve lived here 

 sence I was knee high to a toadstool. 

 Last winter we didn't have one hull 

 day's sleighin', while the winter before 

 we had a full hundred days o' jinglin' 

 bells and smooth sleddin'. The result is, 

 things ain't just as we'd like to have 'em. 

 But it ain't so bad here as it is down south 

 a bit. My wife's brother wrote a letter 

 to me the other day — he's down near 

 Albany, in Indiana — and he says that the 

 strawberry business there is in bad shape 

 because of lack of winter rainfall; berries 

 just dried up in some sections. And 

 things are even worse in parts of Ken- 

 tucky and Tennessee. 



"What kind o' uses me up is the fact 

 that my new bed o' strawberries is findin' 

 it mighty hard to get a hold on the soil, 

 and some of 'em have died, for surface 

 moisture won't do the business like that 

 which comes up from below. I ain't no 

 scientist, and I can't tell you why it's so; 

 but it is so. 



"But what's the use o' lookin' on the 

 dark side o' things.' I just come acrost 

 a little piece o' poetry that hits me; I be- 

 lieve it's just the way to look at things 

 that seem to get kitterin' an' crossways — 

 things sort o' straighten themselves out, if 

 you give 'em time. Just let me read it 

 to ye, and see if it does you as much good 

 as it done me. 'Scuse poor readin', my 

 eddication's limited in that line; but here 

 goes: 



JUST TRY SMILING 



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Try smiling. 

 When your coffee isn't hot, 



Try smiling. 

 When your neighbors don't do right 

 Or your relatives all fight. 

 Sure it's hard; but then you might 



Try smiling. 

 Doesn't change the things, of course. 



Just smiling; 

 But it cannot make them worse — 



Just smiling. 

 And it seems to help your case, 

 Brightens up a gloomy place; 

 Then it sort o' rests your face — 



Just smiling." 



"Now there's Bunker; I wish he'd read 

 a thing like that once in a while and take 

 it in. He's in a stew all the time about 

 somethin' or 'nother. He's had another 

 time with his plants. Wanted to fill in 

 some vacant spots and sent off late to a 

 nursery to get some. Bein' late, the 



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plants were well developed, and the tops 

 were green as grass, showin' vigor. But 

 you know when the sap goes to the fol- 

 iage and fruit it's bound to change the 

 roots and, if you've ever noticed, they 

 get as black as your hat when the sap 

 rises out of them. The minute Bunker 

 saw them roots, he flew into a rage, and 

 without e\'er seein' to the crowns or look- 

 in' at the fine foliage, he rushed over to 

 see me about it, swearin' vengeance agin' 

 that nursery house. But he didn't throw 

 them in the scrap heap this time. 'Mem- 

 ber I told you about his doin' that when 

 the dormant plants he got last spring 

 want as big and green as the catalogue 

 picture showed 'em to be in summer 

 time. It was fortunate for him he didn't, 

 'cause now he's got a pretty nice showin' 

 o' plants. Bunker's comin' on, an' he'll 

 get there yet. But I wish he'd just try 

 smilin'. He'd be better off, and so would 

 his family and his friends." 



IN his very interesting article, which ap- 

 peared in Juneissue of The Strawberry, 

 J. R. Graves, the extensive strawberry 

 growerof Neosho, Mo., referred to the fact 

 that there is no other fruit crop so safe as 

 that of the strawberry. He declared that 

 the crop is as safe as is the corn crop. 

 When we recall the disastrous effects of 

 various forms of scourges which sometime 

 not only devastate the season's crop of 

 peaches or apples, cherries or pears, but 

 frequently take the orchards as well, we 

 may gather some idea of the force and 

 meaning of Mr. Graves' statement. To 

 be able to grow, year in and year out, a 

 crop of fruit for which there always is a 

 demand greater than the supply, and to 

 be as confident that the crop is to be suc- 

 cessful as is the man who grows corn on 

 the broad prairies of Illinois or Iowa — 

 these are considerations which should in- 

 spire the confidence of all in the future of 

 strawberry production as a commercial 

 enterprise of vast, of unlimited, proportions. 



