THE STRAWBERRY DECEMBER 1906 



To Be Given Away Free 



Read Every Word of This Advertisement Carefully 



Illustration 



Shows 



Spoons 



One-Half 



Full Size 



COR advertising purposes we have arranged to give away, absolutely freeof cost tothe 

 *■ users of Mary Elizabeth's Baking Powder, one thousand or more sets of six Louisiana 

 Purchase Exposition Souvenir Spoons (full tea size) on certain very easy conditions. 



These are the same make of spoons sold on the World's Fair Grounds in St. Louis 

 at $L00 to $1.25 each, and we propose to make every lady reader of The Strawberry 

 a present of a full set of six for which thousands of visitors paid $7.50 on the World's 

 Fair Grounds. 



Send No Money— Just Write a Letter Like This: 



Marj' Eliz.ibeth's Baking Powder Co., SheUjyville, Ind. 



Please send me the box containing eight eaiis Mary Elizabeth's Baking Powder and one 

 set, six (all different), Louisiana Purchase Exposition Souvenir Spoons as advertised in The 

 Strawberry, for which I agree to pay you $2.00 on receipt of the goods if they are found 

 (after examination) to be as advertised. 



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The Illustration but faintly Portrays the Beauty of the Spoons 



The handle of each spoon is embellished with the head of President Jefferson, a 

 French and an American flag and other cabalistic designs commemorative of the 

 Louisiana Purchase. 



In the bowl of each spoon is embossed a reproduction of one of the principal 

 exposition buildings. Each spoon shows a different building, viz: Electricity, Mines 

 and Metallurgy, Liberal Arts, Machinery, Horticultural and the United States Gov- 

 ernment Buildings. 



The workmanship on these spoons and materials used are vouched for by one of 

 the largest manufacturing silversmiths in the United States. 



The Historic Value of the Spoons 



The great Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the most stupendous collection of tie 

 works of modern man and the relics of his savage ancestors, is a thing of the past — 

 the glories of the Exposition but a memory. Already your friends and your children 

 look with eager interest on every memento of what in all probability will be the last 

 of the Great World's Fairs. Recognizing this, we have purchased from one of the 

 largest manufacturing silversmiths in the world a large supply of the official souvenir 

 spoons (full tea size), which we propose to distribute (in sets of six) absolutely free 

 to the users of Mary Elizabeth's Baking Powder. 



These Spoons are not for Sale Separately at any Price 



They are only obtainable in connection with Mary Elizabeth's Baking Powder. 



Mary Elizabeth's Baking Powder cannot be purchased at stores; is sold only direct 

 from factory to user, and conforms strictly to all requirements of the new Pure Food 

 Laws recently enacted by Congress. 



Mary Elizabeth's Baking Powder is not made by a trust, but you can put your trust 

 in this brand. If you want a de|>endable powder this brand will never disappoint you. 



Mary Elizabeth's Baking Powder Co., Shelbyville, Ind. 



ovif. I have plowed a small piece and ma- 

 nured it well, and have put a ditch through 

 the lower end. The soil is black for three or 

 four inches down. The slope is westerly. 

 The altitude is about 1,400 feet. 



2. What varieties would I better plant? 

 The late berries would be best for my avail- 

 able market. 



3. Would planting on slightly elevated ridges 

 help to prevent heaving by frost? 



It never is a good plan to set straw- 

 berries on low, wet ground, but from the 

 description you give of your land, we 

 think it will be safe for you to use it. 

 The ditch you ha\'e made throjjjh the 

 lower end will be of great benefit in car- 

 rying away the surplus water. If you 

 will make the rows run toward the ditch 

 and make a slight ridge before setting the 

 plants, then the cultivator will make small 

 furrows, which will carry the surface 

 water to the drain ditch. 



2. Such late varieties as Pride of Mich- 

 igan, Gandy, Parker Earle and Brandy wine 

 will do well on such land as yours. The 

 Cjlen Mary will be about the best me- 

 dium-season variety to grow on that soil. 



3. The only sure preventive against 

 the ills of freezing and thawing is to 

 mulch, and in your latitude to mulch well. 



Comments and Suggestions From a 

 Strawberry Reader 



By J. S. Dickinson 



I WAS struck with your answer to 

 Mrs. R. S. (October Strawberry) as 

 to cost of putting out one acre of 

 strawberries. Your Western prices are 

 somewhat lower than Eastern; for in- 

 stance, two-horse loads of manure bring 

 $2 per load, for plowing and harrowing, 

 $5 per day; for labor of man, $1.75 for 

 day of nine hours. This is too much for 

 farmers here to pay, but these prices rule. 



I put out a small bed of ftrawberries 

 last spring and have been interested 

 in watching these plants grow. My 

 soil is rather heavy, and bakes quite 

 hard, and it is difficult to keep it 

 loose. I have four rows of strawberry 

 plants each 225 feet long. Two of the 

 rows have the plants one foot apart, and 

 all runners are cut as fast as they appear; 

 one row matted three and one-half feet 

 wide, and the fourth row is part matted 

 and part double row of plants set sixteen 

 inches between rows and eighteen inches 

 between plants, and runners all cut. I 

 shall set most of my plants in this man- 

 ner next spring, as I think I can get more 

 plants on a given space than in the single 

 row. I use a wheel hoe between rows, 

 and a potato hook between plants. 



I wonder if all your readers know how 

 easy it is to hoe with a potato hook."" But 

 don't let the weeds start — and they won"t, 

 if the hook is kept busy. For a hoe I 

 cut off the corners of an ordinary tobacco 

 hoe, and it is all right to work among the 



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