THE STRAWBERRY AUGUST 1906 



feature which might well be copied by 

 other places with similar celebrations. 

 Colorado maintains an Old Soldiers' and 

 Sailors' Home at Monte Vista. Every 

 year ten of the best crates of berries 

 grown in the valley, a number of the best 

 cakes, and sufficient money to buy the 

 cream, are sent to this home from Glen- 

 wood Springs so that the old "boys in 

 blue" who are passing the last few years 

 of their tempestuous lives at this quiet 

 retreat may feel tha: out in the busy 

 world they are still remembered and may 

 help to celebrate Strawberry Day even if 

 they may not be present in person. 



An interesting, and we think entirely 

 appropriate, feature of the day has grown 

 in recent years. The time has been 

 seized upon as apropos for a honeymoon 

 tour by the lads and lassies residing in 

 more remote parts of the district, and now 

 every year on this occasion there are from 

 eight to ten marriages performed here. 

 One young man, thinking the day was a 

 legal holiday and that the county offices 

 would be closed, but determined that his 

 great purpose should not be frustrated, 

 wrote to the county clerk in advance, 

 asking that officer to leave a marriage 

 license at some convenient place so that 

 there would be nothing to hinder the 

 welding of the golden band at Glenwood 

 Springs on Strawberry Day. 



Glenwood Springs, Colo., July 10, 1906. 



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 form or glowing colors hide an enemy to 

 man. Next to the birds — in some points 

 equalling quite the best of our bird- 

 friends — the toad serves the gardener and 

 fruitman in most practical ways. The 

 grub, the slug, bugs that fly and worms 

 that crawl, form his piece de resistance, 

 his ambrosial delight; and he feasts upon 



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them like an epicure. Don't be too hasty 

 about killing the innocent but ugly fellow 

 who comes to your strawberry patch only 

 to serve you loyally, doing not one parti- 

 cle of harm to anything you value. These 

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An Answer to Many Inquiries 

 By Joseph Bolt 



I WROTE a letter to The Strawberry 

 last spring that appeared in the May 

 number, which you so appropriately 

 headed, "Success to the Man Who Does." 

 Well, that letter got me into a peck of 

 trouble, and if you have room to put this 

 in the next issue it may help me out to 

 some extent. I get so many letters ask- 

 ing so many questions! Some writers en- 

 close a stamp and some do not. Most of 

 them want me to tell them all about 

 Florida. Now anyone who read my 

 letter could see that I had no time or 

 money to travel all over a state 10,000 

 miles larger than New York, or as big as 

 Pennsylvania and New Jersey put to- 

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One man said that he talked with a 

 man who was down here last winter. The 

 man said that Florida was a low, wet 

 country. Another man said it was a 

 high, dry country. He wanted me to 

 say who was right. Well, I can only 

 say they are both right. Another man 

 wants to know if he could come here in 

 the fall and buy a piece of land as cheaply 

 as I did and clean it up and plant straw- 

 lierries and tomatoes and make a crop — 

 market it in time to go home (near Buf- 

 falo, N. Y.,) to market his crop there. 

 He does not say bow he is going to get a 

 piece of wild land in condition in time, or 

 if he did, what is he going to do with the 

 weeds and grass that would grow ten feet 

 high during the summer. Such foolish- 

 ness has been tried from time to time and 

 always proved a failure. Then these 

 people go home and curse Florida. 



To make a long story short, such peo- 

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 those who expect to get money out of 

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Another man congratulates me on my 

 good luck, and wants to to know if I 

 think he would or could do as well a I 

 did if he came here. Well, surely, the 

 Lord would give him as much rain and 

 sunshine as he does me, and if he will do 

 the rest as I do he certainly can do as 

 well. But as for luck, I am no believer 

 in it until you put a P before it. 



From Southern sources I get inquiries 

 for plants. Ihey want Kellogg's strain 

 of plants, but as Kellogg won't sell any 

 for fall planting they want to get some 



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 two if I have room, and if I have any 

 plants over I throw them away. 



People here fear they will burn up if 

 they set them in the spring. Well, mine ' 

 don't burn, and my land is a sand hill. 

 Every Southerner knows what that is, and 

 I have no secret about it. I simply keep 

 them cultivated, not only with a horse, 

 but also with hoe or rake — any way to 

 keep the ground loose and weeds down; 

 and every time when it is necessary, 

 whether there is a pic-nic or whether fish 

 bite or not — if my berry plants need my 

 attention they get it, and that is all my 

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But I do say that there is no place in 

 this country where a man with small 

 means and willing to work can make a 

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Brooklyn, Fla., July 4. 



HERE is an encouraging word spoken 

 by a commission merchant in an 

 interview with a reporter of a Columbus 

 (Ohio) newspaper. He said: "No other 

 berry or fruit has half the popularity en- 

 joyed by the strawberry. People are 



