THE STRAWBERRY JANUARY 1907 



Doerr's Yellow Dent Corn 



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"^ ^^ ^ ^^ We are originators and scientific 

 breeders of Doerr's Yellow Dent, in many ways the best 

 Yellow Corn in cultivation. 



We want every Strawberry boy's help to grow this corn 

 and sell it to his neighbors and help us start it on every 

 farm. 



Can we depend on you for help? 



You boys hold the golden key to corn improvement of 

 the corn belt. We will pay 25 cents on the $1.00 (to 

 boys only I. Will you ioin our army, and write us to- 

 day so we can send you our plan? Address 



A. T. DOERR & SONS, HARVEL, ILL. 



Ion? PatQlnir fDPE Describes and prices 45 varie- 

 3UI UdldlUg rriLC ties fancy poultry and egns. 

 S. A. HI M JIEL. Box 13. Freeport, Illiiinis 



I was determined to make when once 

 more I was at home on the farm. And 

 long before spring opened I had com- 

 pletely mapped out my plans for tests and 

 experiments. 



And this leads me to speak of the im- 

 portance of planning ahead, so that when 

 the season for activity arrives all that you 

 have to do is to execute the plans. My 

 experience then and since has taught me 

 that to get one's plans laid out on paper 

 during the winter months is one of the 

 most important steps one may take in the 

 direction of success, and if any grower is 

 not now blessed with the degree of suc- 

 cess he has hoped to win, it may be be- 

 cause he is not expending sufficient time 

 and thought in this very work. Spring is 

 a time for rush work in the strawberry 

 field, and without well-matured plans the 

 grower is bound to make many unneces- 

 sary- — perhaps false — moves, and is liable 

 to suffer serious loss as a result. 



The Photographic Contest 



WE are pleased to be able to an- 

 nounce the result of the photo- 

 graphic prize contes: this 

 month, and the following report from the 

 judges — two photographers of high stand- 

 ing, who also are familiar with strawberry 

 fields and what is expected of them — will 

 give the details: 



Three Rivers, Mich., Dec. 15, 19U6. 

 The Kellogg Publishing Co., 

 Gentlemen: 



We, the judges appointed to pass upon 

 the large ninnber of scenes of stra\\ berry fields 

 entered in The Strawberry photographic con- 

 test, take pleasure in making the following report: 

 Without hesitation, we awarded to VV. C. 

 Landis of Shoals, Ind., the first prize, both for 

 the remarkably fine appearance of his strawberry 

 bed, and for the unusually high-grade photo- 

 graph exhibiting it. 



We unanimously awarded second prize to 

 Elmer Smith of Urbana, Ohio, and to C. W. 

 Gordon of Montville, N. J., the third prize. 



There were some indifferent photographs of 

 very fine fields, and excellent photographs of 

 some fields that did not rank high, and in cast- 

 ing up the points of the several contestants, 

 Messrs. Landis, Smith and Gordon were found 

 to ha\'e the highest numbers. 



Very truly vours, 



V. H. Van Horn 

 Chas. Silliman 



We wish to announce thus early an- 



other contest of the same character and 

 for the same sums for the season of 1907. 

 We hope that hundreds of our friends 

 may take part in this second contest. 

 Nothing helps along the cause of good 

 strawberry methods as does these beau- 

 tiful pictures of actual achie\'ements. The 

 conditions in the 1907 contest will be 

 the same as in the one just closed, namely: 

 Best photograph of strawberry field, $5; 

 second best, .$3; third, $2. All photo- 

 graphs submitted to remain the property 

 of the Kellogg Publishing Company. 



Now who will send us the best in 1907.' 

 Let everybody try; for it will pay even if 

 you are not one of the prize winners. Let 

 us make the 1907 contest a memorable 

 one. 



ONE recent subscriber to The Straw- 

 berry writes us that he will be glad 

 to pay $2 for a set of copies of The 

 Strawberry, constituting Volume I of this 

 magazine. If anyone having these twelve 

 numbers wishes to dispose of them at this 



figure, we shall be glad to arrange the 

 transaction. — Editor The Strawberry. 



nPHE greatest sash, door and general wood- 

 * working house in the world is that of Gor- 

 don, VanTine & Co., at Davenport, la. Com- 

 pared with what they charge the consumer, the 

 ordinary prices at which these goods usually are 

 sold seem extremely high, but this is due to two 

 things — they ha\'e such a mammoth plant, per- 

 fectly systematized, and they sell directly from 

 factory to consumer. Take for instance a four- 

 paneled door of high quality; the dealer's price 

 is ,$2.00 — the retailer pays his jobber $1.15 for 

 this door — the jobber pays the average maker 

 87c for it. Gordon, VanTine & Company sell 

 direct from their immense factory the same door 

 for 80 cents. In other words, they sell a door 

 of warranted quality fine white pine to the con- 

 sumer for less than the jobber pays the average 

 small maker for it. You save therefore the 

 jobber's profit of 28 cents, and the retailer's 

 profit of 85 cents, besides the difference between 

 Gordon, VanTine's low factory price and that 

 of the average factory, a total dilTerence of $1.20. 

 Is it any wonder that they do such a tremendous 

 business? You will find it to your interest to 

 get one of their catalogues and study up the 

 situation, if vou are to build or make anv repairs. 

 .Address Gordon, VanTine .i; Co., Station B79, 

 Davenport, la., mentioning The Strawberry. 



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