THE STRAWBERRY DECEMBER 1906 



many a pupil has entered upon a success- 

 ful career as a result of his attention 

 to the details taught therein. 



The whole strawberry world has felt 

 the influence of this magazine's devotion 

 to that interest. We say this in no boast- 

 ful spirit; indeed, we do not say it of our- 

 selves at all — it is the unanimously ex- 

 pressed sentiment that comes to us from 

 friends at home and from friends over sea. 

 But if we have accomplished the win- 

 ning of these kind words in the year that is 

 past, we have plans that surely will win for 

 The Strawberry even warmer words of 

 encouragement and cheer in the year to 

 come. There are many larger and better 

 things promised for the year to come than 

 we have been able to secure in the past. 

 It takes time to get a magazine like The 

 Strawberry under way; to lay its course, 

 to get in touch with the infinite ramifica- 

 tions of the interests it represents. We 

 shall make no attempt to outline the good 

 things that are to reach our readers in 

 1907 — we don't know half of them our- 

 selves. But we think that the steady im- 

 provement of the magazine since the day 

 of its birth is a guarantee that the same 

 upward course will be followed. 



One feature which will be of interest 

 and value to all will be "The Autobi- 

 ography of a Strawberry Grower." This 

 story will give in helpful detail the ups and 

 downs of one who began as an amateur 

 strawberry grower and became the best 

 known grower in his state, and so famed 

 as an expert as to become the head of one 

 of the most remarkable horticultural in- 

 stitutions in the world. 



Another feature will be a series of 

 "lectures" by the head of the Corres- 

 pondence School. This series will begin 

 with the January issue, and will deal with 

 "The Preparation of the Soil," the foun- 

 dation of all successful strawberry culture. 

 In following up this course, we shall aim 

 to anticipate each step of the grower in 

 his work by at least two months, so that 

 every grower, — he whose home is under 

 tropic suns, or on 'the Coast, or he 

 whose bed cf strawberries hibernates un- 

 dsr the Ni rt'iern sroA's — so that every 

 grower shall be fully advised in ample 

 time to prepare his work along lines that 

 scarcely could fail of success. 



A member of the stiff of The Straw- 

 berry, as this is written, is in the strawberry 

 fields of the South, gathering data that we 

 expect to be of large value to the general 

 work and of especial value to that section 

 of the country whence strawberries are 

 shipped by the thousands of carloads. 

 Concerning everything that pertains to 

 the work this magazine is alert, ready and 

 anxious to serve. 



For the beautiful illustrations which 

 have been so important and helpful a 

 feature of the magazine we have to thank 

 our readers for the photographs so gener- 

 ously sent us, and we trust that even 

 more of them are to come to us during 

 the coming year. How great a stimulus 



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those illustrations ha\e been we may 

 never know, but we are sure they have 

 encouraged many a grower to better 

 methods in his work and inspired many a 

 one to consider seriously the growing of 

 strawberries as an occupation and a 

 business. 



With thanks which we cannot express 

 in words for the gracious reception you 

 have given The Strawberry and all the 

 courtesies we have had at your hands, we 

 close the first volume with heartiest 

 wishes to all for "A Merry Christmas." 



DECEMBER is the month for bal- 

 ancing up the year's accounts and 

 wiping out "old scores." There are 

 financial old scoies, and moral old scores. 

 Wipe 'em all out; life is too short and too 

 precious to be bothered and disturbed by 

 such things. Get your books balanced 

 up before Christmas. If you've an old 

 score against a neighbor or against the 



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world in general, don't keep it on the ac- 

 count book of life a day longer. It's cost- 

 ing you too much. "Keep sweet" is a 

 wise injunction, but you can't do it if 

 there are old scores yet to be settled. 



WINTER days are here. An autumn 

 of rare beauty and mildness, ideal 

 in that fine Indian-summer quality that 

 makes winter's approach a joy, has 

 blessed this section of the country, albeit 

 storm and disaster have visited the great 

 Northwest, doing incalculable damage. 

 But winter is here — what shall we do 

 with the days so full of opportunity, so 

 rich in time for reriection and preparation? 

 Let us suggest one thing for our com- 

 mercial strawberry growers to do — organ- 

 ize! Organize your work, organize your 

 neighborhood with a view to better fruit, 

 organize your district so that in the season 

 of marketing the 1907 crop there will be 

 no bungling, but your fruit will go direct 



