THE STRAWBERRY FEBRUARY 1907 



exactly $1232.67, and unless there is a 

 hard freeze he will continue to market 

 berries all winter. Mr. Waite looks after 

 his patch himself and practicall.v all he 

 makes is profit. He marketed his first 

 berries June 1, and from that date until 

 July 7 he brought in 12,798 boxes, from 

 which he realized $807.70. In Septem- 

 ber he marketed forty-three boxes, which 

 netted him $10. Since the first of Oc- 

 tober he has marketed 2447 boxes, from 

 which lie realized $414.97. The total 

 yield to date (autumn of 1906) has been 

 15,198 boxes. 



The Woman With the Hoe 



By Mrs. F. D. Treman 



LAST spring I ordered 1,000 straw- 

 berry plants — 500 Senator Dunlap 

 and 500 Texas — and they reached 

 us in fine condition. We at once went 

 to work setting them out, and I concluded 

 that setting strawberry plants was about 

 the hardest work, for I couldn't straighten 

 up for several days afterward. 



My husband helped get them into the 

 ground and plowed them several times 

 afterward, but he then made a change in 

 his work and disposed of the horse, and 

 the strawberry bed was left to "the woman 

 with the hoe." I toiled in that patch early 

 and late and I studied The Strawberry to 

 get all the instruction I could and, as far 

 as my ability went, did as instructions 

 said. 



1 he Texas plants did not do as well 

 as the others, for I lost about 100 of them 

 from drouth and worms, but by Septem- 

 ber I had some fine new plants that I 

 took from my strongest plants and filled 

 in where they had died. The Senator 

 Dunlaps did splendidly. They were set 

 in double-hedge rows. I allowed each 

 mother plant to make four plants and 

 kept all other runners off. I never en- 

 joyed outdoor work better than I did that, 

 even though it was hard; and the plants 

 seemed to enjoy it too. 



It did my heart good to hear passers-by 

 exclaim: "Just look at those strawberry 

 plants!" and to have my neighbors say 

 they never saw anything like it. We 

 covered them up with oat straw in No- 

 vember and now the thing that worries 

 me is a fear that they may be too warm, 

 for the weather is far from cold. I am 

 anxioi s y waiting the coming spring. Per- 

 haps you will think this a long letter, but 

 I feel as though I was writing to an old 

 friend. I have been so busy with the 

 holiday work I ha\e neglected to send in 

 the renewal of my subscription to The 

 Strawberry, but I enclose it now and also 

 the name of a friend to whom I wish the 

 paper sent. Hope I am not too late to 

 have the special rates offered for the 

 Christmas Gift subscription. 



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Our correspondent found the work of 

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 joy she took in those beautiful plants and 

 the contemplation of the fruits of her toil 

 next season and in the years to come, 

 made the whol:-. season's work a joy and, 

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 woman with a hoe in a strawberry patch 

 is in her native element, and health and 

 contentment are her certain reward, to say 

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GREAT things are the sum total of 

 an infinite number of little things. 

 Lofty Pike's Peak is made of so many 

 atoms that they could not be counted if 

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and had a million years to do it in. In 

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 The simple thing, well done today, may 

 be the truly great thing in embryo of 

 which now you dream as your life's high- 

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HOW many communities might have 

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 few, if any, strawberries were raised for 

 market in Kanawha county. Our earliest 

 came from Florida and other Southern 

 markets and the later ones from Mason 

 county. Several years ago, one of Charles- 

 ton's successful grocerymen succeeded in 

 interesting some farmers on Davis creek 

 in cultivating strawberries for the Charles- 



