THE STRAWBERRY SEPTEMBER 1906 



THE WAY TO PREVENT FUNGOUS DISEASES AND INSECT PESTS 



their "greens" during the winter months. 

 If you have the manure, and the time in 

 which to do the work, it will be all the 

 better if you will spread the manure and 

 work it thoroughly into the soil before 

 sowing the rye. 



IN many localities mulching materials 

 are not always easily obtainable, and 

 just now when the farmers are threshing 

 their grain is an opportune moment to 

 engage straw for the 



Arranging for ■ r \_ 



Mulching wmter covenng for the 



plants. A great many 

 farm'ers will be very glad to dispose of 

 their old stack of straw, now that the new 

 crop of straw is in hand; and the old is 

 much better for mulching strawberries 

 than the new straw, as it lies better on the 

 plants and is not so easily blown away. 

 It always is best to engage this in ad- 

 vance and then you will be sure to have 

 it on hand when mulching time comes. 

 As to preference, we would choose old 

 wheat straw, but we often find it so 

 scarce as to be glad enough to accept 

 almost anything as a substitute. In some 

 localities it is impossible to get any kind 

 of straw, and where this is true we sug- 

 gest that you make a special effort to se- 

 cure the coarse manure from livery and 

 private stables, remembering that anything 

 is better than no mulching at all. 



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SOIL CULTURE— some form of 

 agriculture — is the elect calling of the 

 future, and the boy who leaves the farm 

 in these days, unless he have peculiar 

 aptitude for some other line of work, is 

 throwing away a great opportunity. As 

 H. J. Waters, dean of the Missouri Agri- 

 cultural College well says: 'The ex- 

 perience a young man gains on the farm 

 is a most valuable asset. He should not 

 throw it away by entering some other 

 profession in which this experience is of 



no special value. This is particularly 

 true when we consider the extent to which 

 most of the professions are crowded and 

 the unusual opportunities now offered in 

 agriculture. Every farm boy should sup- 

 plement his farm experience by training 

 in a college of agriculture, so as to be 

 prepared for the greatest possible success." 



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All in Good Management 



10NCE asked a farm hand how his 

 employer succeeded in doing so well 

 when he only worked ten hours a 

 day, writes Fred Grundy in Farm and 

 Fireside. "It's all in the management!" 

 said he. "If I had sense enough to man- 



age as well as he does I would be the 

 owner of a farm now instead of working by 

 the month. I think he is the best manager I 

 ever saw. The work goes on as steadv 

 as a clock on his place. There seems to 

 be no rush at any time, but I know I am 

 doing better work and more of if on this 

 farm than I ever did in my life. He has 

 every implement fixed to do the best 

 work it will do, and I can tell you it is a 

 great satisfaction to work with them. 

 Then he is the best stock feeder I know. 

 He feeds the horses just enough to keep 

 them even. They are not fat as butter 

 in winter and poor as crows in summer. 

 When at work they have full feed, and 

 when they stop, the feed is cut down at 

 once. He seems to have more sense 

 about these things than anybody I ever 

 met. The fact is, he is a real cracking 

 good farmer." 



This fact is getting plainer every day: 

 that it is not brawn but brain — active 

 brain — that makes the most successful 

 farmer of today. And we should keep 

 in mind the fact that active brains are 

 not found in an overworked body. 



Look for Sunbeams 



Ida Gregory 



IF we look for sunbeams 

 We can tint! them everywhere; 

 Nestled midst the silken tresses 

 Of an infant's sunny hair. 



Sunbeams resting in the fondness 

 Of a mother's patient smile, 



Gaily romping in the glances 

 Of each happy little child. 



There are just as many sunbeams 

 AH around us, brightly fair, 



As shadows, and if we look 

 We can find them ev'ry where. 



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 in the shop, printing-ofBce, or— anywhere? 



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