THE STRAWBERRY AUGUST 1906 



THE STRAWBERRY 



A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO 

 THE INTERESTS OF STRAWBERRY 

 PRODUCTION IN ALL ITS BRANCHES 



Published the First of Each Motith by 



The Kellogg Publishing Company 

 Three Rivers, Michigan 



W. H. BURKE Editor 



F. E. BEATTY ■ Instructor in Cultural Methods 

 ARTHUR D. AVERY .... Manager 



ROBERT S. FOUNTAIN, 



Advertising Manager, 



1603 Manhattan Bldg., Chicago, 111. 



THE cover-page illustration this 

 month represents an Iowa straw- 

 berry patch with a background of 

 orchard trees that gives to it a scenic effect 

 at once unusual and beautiful. This is a 

 scene in the fields of George A. Schurk of 

 Fort Madison, Iowa, who, when he learned 

 the use to which his handsome picture 

 would be put, wrote: "I didn't think it 

 good enough for The Strawberry," a de- 

 gree of modesty quite uncalled for in such 

 a case, we are sure our readers will agree. 

 Such a picture as Mr. Schurk has contrib- 

 uted will not fall to encourage others to take 

 up the work of strawberry culture. Suc- 

 cess inspires, heartens, helps others to 

 win success. The moral responsibility 

 that rests upon us to succeed is not 

 wholly personal to ourselves; we owe it 

 to the world to succeed, for a good ex- 

 ample, like the pebble cast into the sea, 

 extends on and on to the very confines of 

 the sea of time. So let us succeed both 

 for our own sake and the sake of others, 

 and make two strawberries to grow in 

 1907 where but one grew in this year of 

 grace. 



A ND while we are speaking of pic- 

 ■**■ tures, let us remind our friends that 

 the photographic contest still is on, and 

 will be until tjie close of the growing 

 season. We very much wish to have 

 photographs of the field prepared for 

 second crop. That is, after you have 

 mowed and burned over the patch, and 

 the new and green plants are once more 

 filling the space allotted them, a photo- 

 graph should be taken to show just what 

 that second growth has been. And be 

 sure to make a note of the day the burn- 

 ing was done, and the date the photograph 

 was taken, so that we may see just how 

 quickly the mar\el of nature has been 

 wrought and the old bed, with its dead 



leaves and perhaps its insects and fungi, 

 has been renewed and a start made for a 

 bumper crop in 1907. 



WE doubt if any publishers in the 

 world ever received more hearten- 

 ing words from their readers than come 

 to us by each day's mail. From far away 

 Australasia they come, from British 

 Columbia, from the continent of Europe, 

 and from our friends who claim the dis- 

 tinction of being Americans we receive 

 such cherry inspirations as make light the 

 burdens of the day. But we are not al- 

 together satisfied, because that list of 

 subscribers is not expanding to the 50,000 

 size as rapidly as we desire, and we won- 

 der if our friends could not help the good 

 work along if they were to try a little. 

 We are just one big family, and we be- 

 lieve every member of it desires to enlarge 

 the family circle in order that the in- 

 fluence of The Strawberry may be ex- 

 tended in the interest of better horticulture 

 and more and better fruit for the people. 

 Please be ready to respond when we take 

 up the matter of definite plant with you 

 a little later. 



HAVE you had moments of disappoint- 

 ment this season, when it appeared 

 at times that the strawberry crop must go t 

 In some sections the dry winter, in others, 

 the dry spring, in still others the torrential 

 floods that pounded the young and tender 

 plants into the soft earth, created conster- 

 nation in many a heart, and hope gave 

 place to despair. In many instances, 

 however, the results were better than the 

 outlook promised, and many a man awoke 

 to the consciousness that a crisis was call- 

 ing for his best thought and effort and, 

 stirring himself for the conflict, fought off 

 the threatening evils and won the day, 

 having as a result his strawberry field in 

 good condition for next year's crop. But 

 even the man who lost should remember 

 that the man who goes into partnership 

 with nature sometimes will be o\er- 

 whelmed by her caprice; he should re- 

 member that the corn kings have won 

 their thrones and held them by conquests 

 most heroic; that wheat kings and cotton 

 kings and fruit kings have their gray days 

 and their seasons of disheartenment. 

 Don't let a little thing like that disturb 

 the serenity of your life. Keep smiling, 

 and keep at it everlastingly, and success 

 will be your portion. 



LATE strawberries grown in the North 

 have proved their right to considera- 

 tion this season as opening up an attract- 

 ive commercial opportunity. We find 

 this item in a journal published in the 

 Upper Peninsula of Michigan under date 

 of July 5: "Daniel Nehmer & Sons, of 

 Ontonagon, are picking strawberries. 

 They have twenty acres of bearing plants, 

 about double the acreage of last season, 



P»ge 172 



and the yield is expected to be fully 

 2,000 bushels. They say that conditions 

 so far have been favorable for a good crop 

 this season. The plants are loaded with 

 berries, which are now beginning to 

 ripen." Reports from DeTour, Mich., 

 also advise us of the splendid success that 

 is crowning the work of strawberry grow- 

 ers in that part of the state. Strawberries 

 by the carload should be grown in that 

 vast region of Michigan, Wisconsin and 

 Minnesota popularly known as the "Laice 

 Superior region." Coming into market 

 from July 1 to 10 they always could 

 bring the banner prices of the season. 



^ '^ 



THE strawberry season may be ex- 

 tended, says S. H. Warren of 

 Weston, Mass., by setting the earliest 

 varieties on the south side of a fence or of 

 a hill; where the sun warms the land 

 early, therefore producing an early growth. 

 Such land will produce fruit a week or 

 ten days earlier than other localities. To 

 extend the season at the other end set 

 some of the latest varieties on the north 

 side of a fence or on a northern slope. 

 By so doing the season can be lengthened 

 a week or ten days at the latter end. 



THIS is the day of the trained man," 

 says President Henry S. Pritchett, of 

 the Boston "Tech." "In competition with 

 him, the untrained man, or the poorly 

 trained man, cannot maintain himself. Do 

 not be afraid of too much theory. Never 

 was good practice which was not pre- 

 ceded by and based upon good theory. 

 Let your theoretical training be broad and 

 deep. It is your only sure foundation 

 for the best work." 



ONE is hardly apt to be thinking about fur- 

 naces at this time of the year, when mer- 

 cury ranges up among the nineties, but it is 

 right now that you should be preparing for the 

 cold and stormy days ahead, and so we call 

 your attention especially to the Schafer Furnace 

 Co.'s advertisement in this issue, confident you 

 will find it to your interest to takeup this matter 

 now. This company makes an unusual offer. 

 They will ship a heater for $10 down and ask 

 no profit until the user is satisfied. The com- 

 pany issues an illustrated instructor free. We 

 suggest that you write for it at once. The 

 Schkfer Furnace Company is located at Youngs- 

 town, Ohio, and a postal card will bring you 

 full information and the booklet. 



THE season for the sprayer is with us, and 

 during the next six weeks it should be used 

 with great frequency in the strawberry bed to 

 the end that the plants may go into winter quar- 

 ters free from any insect pests or fungous spores, 

 thus to reach frniting time with vitality unim- 

 paired and capable of producing big crops of 

 luscious berries. For this work it would be dif- 

 ficult to conceive a more convenient sprayer than 

 the Lenox Knapsack, which our readers will 

 find advertised in this issue of The Strawberry. 

 Read carefully what the manufacturers say about 

 it. Whether you have a big field or a little 

 patch, the spraver is an essential, and the Lenox 

 is just the thing to fill the bill. Address the 

 Lenox Sprayer Co. , 1302 Broadway, New York. 



