THE STRAWBERRY DECEMBER 1906 



all this time great waste was going on, 

 for when finally the manure was spread 

 it had lost much of its fertility. Now is 

 the time to do the little things, the sum 

 total of which is very large. Remember 

 that "mony a mickle maks a muckle." 



What Two Years of Experience 

 Has Wrought 



By W. H. Rogers 



AS a subscriber to the strawberry I 

 wish to say that I would not think 

 of being without it. When I sub- 

 scribed for the magazine, I expected to 

 bother you a good deal with questions, 

 but I have found all my problems solved 

 in your answers to others, without the 

 trouble of writing. 



I have had two years of experience in 

 strawberry growing, and my strawberry 

 plot this year is 180 x 293 feet in size. 

 My tickets show 8,340 baskets as the 

 season's product, not counting what my 

 wife and others picked and for which no 

 tickets were made. I think that, all told, 

 I had a total of 9,000 baskets. 



My largest picking was on the 2nd of 

 July — 1,500 baskets; and one week from 

 that day I picked 1,061 baskets. I began 

 selling June 18, and sold up to July 20, 

 selling every day save Sundays, which I 

 think not a bad showing, considering that 

 I had seventeen varieties. By selecting 

 three or four varieties from them and 

 under the same conditions, I am confident 

 I can increase the yield by one-third. 



All of my varieties gave me a profitable 

 yield. Senator Dunlap, Warfield and 

 Dornan are my choice for quality and 

 profit. And I have won a name as a 

 strawberry grower that is worth something 



in a business way. My fruit was fine 

 and I sold the berries at the following 

 figures: Choice, 20 cents; No. I's, 15 

 cents; No. 2's, two quarts for 25 cents, 

 and canning berries at 8 and 9 cents per 

 basket by the crate. I had no difficulty 

 in disposing of all I had, more than one- 

 half being taken from the packing house. 

 I burned over my patch after the pick- 

 ing season was over, plowed and seeded 

 to buckwheat, plowed buckwheat under 

 and gave the whole bed a coat of stable 

 manure; sowed fall rye, which is just now 

 coming up. I worked the manure well 

 into the soil with drag and disc harrow. 



Cobourg, Ont., Sept. 29. 



Mr. Rogers' experience suggests the 

 meaning and value of quality to the 

 strawberry grower. Notice that magnifi- 

 cent field shown at the foot of this page 

 and those figures — 20 cents for "choice," 

 15 cents for firsts, 12 1-2 cents for sec- 

 onds and from 8 to 9 cents for the re- 

 mainder when taken by the crate — those 

 figures don't appear so surprising. Qual- 

 ity stands out all over his field — quality 

 of plants, quality of cultural methods. 

 Those prices indicate the quality of pick- 

 ing and packing. Yet Mr. Rogers has 

 had but two years' experience — a most 

 encouraging fact for beginners. 



Don't you see the truth of what we 

 so frequently urge, that there is not only 

 an inadequate supply of choice fruit, but 

 that there is really no hope that there 

 ever will be such supply of it as will 

 meet the demand for it.'' Over on South 

 Water street, Chicago, the most wonder- 

 ful market place in the world, one certain 

 man's apples get .$1 premium per barrel 

 over any other apples that come to that 

 market. He got that premium twenty 



VIEW OF W. H. ROGERS' STRAWBERRY FIELD, COBOURG, ONTARIO 



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Idea 



AVOU have the 

 * fresh popcorn 

 and other neces- 

 sary material, and 



Cracker- Jack <'^^ ''"''--■ 



VjiaWl\Cl «JUW1V jrjsp^ delicious and 

 healthful Cracker-Jack 

 on earth. Now, what 

 I propose to do is 

 to send you my 

 formula with com- 

 plete instructions for making Potter's Famous 

 Cracker-Jack if you will send me 25 cents. Why 

 pay a big price for a little bag of stale cracker-jack 

 when you can learn tiow to make my famous brand at so 

 small a cost? Send me 25c in silver or 2c stamps 

 and I will forward my formula and full information 

 by return mail. It will tell you how to make your 

 own cracker-jack, and earn big money. 



Clark Potter, The Cracker-Jack Man, Ttiree Rivers, Mich. 



Wp vou'-li for Mr. Pott-r.— Kellouu I'rin.isiiiN'; Co. 



Dewberries S 



Olio of the most 

 )fatable crops 

 small fruit- 

 grower can raise 

 Now is the time to plan for next spring's plant- 

 ing. Write f(»r information about plants and 

 culture to 



""'■ T. H. Smallwood, ""^ j^""' 



Box 5 



KANSAS 



years ago; he gets it today, we understand. 

 Why haven't ten thousand apple growers 

 risen up in their dignity and shown Mr. 

 Winne (suggestive name, isn't iti') that 

 they could do just as well as he did.? We 

 don't know, and you perhaps couldn't 

 tell why. But the facts are suggestive, 

 and we hazard the guess that there are 

 men right within walking 

 distance of Mr. Rogers' beau- 

 tiful strawberry patch who 

 have been growing strawber- 

 ries for many years and yet 

 are glad to get 10 cents for 

 their firsts (never had any 

 "choice" enough to be dig- 

 nified by that title) and let 

 the rest of their crop go at — 

 any old price! 

 What The Strawberry 

 hopes to do is to make every 

 one of its readers get this fact 

 so deeply imbedded in their 

 inner consciousness that it 

 v\ill act as a motor to purpose 

 and set them to work with a 

 determination to make qual- 

 ity a first consideration in 

 everything that relates to the 

 production of strawberries. 

 When this is done, success 

 alreruly will have been 

 achieved, and it will be such 

 success as gives joy to the 

 grower — a moral satisfaction 

 of even higher value in man\' 



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