THE STRAWBERRY FEBRUARY 1907 



BERRY BOXES 

 BERRY CRATES 



In flat or made up. All kinds of 

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BEST GOODS RIGHT PRICES 



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Colby-Hinkley Company 



BENTON HARBOR, MICHIGAN 



Paint Without Oil 



Remarkable Discovery That Cuts 

 Down the Cost of Paint Seventy- 

 Five Per Cent 



A Free Trial Package is Mailed to Every- 

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A. L. Rice, a prominent manufacturer of Adams, N. Y., 

 has discovered a process of making a new Itind of paiut 

 w-ltliout the useof oil. He calls it Powdrpaint. It comes 

 in the form of a dry powder and all that is required Is cold 

 water to make a paint weather proof, lire proof and as dur- 

 able as oil paint. It adheres to any surface, wood, stone 

 or brick, spreads and looks like oil paint and costs about 

 one-fourth as much. 



Write to Mr, A. L. Rice, Manufacturer, 613 North St., 

 Adams, N. Y., and he will send you a free trial package; 

 also color card and full information showing how you can 

 save a good many dollars. Write to-day. 



1 No. 14 Gauee Painted wire Shorts, 



I 100 lbs..»1.25; No. 14 Gauee Galvan- 



I Ized Wire Shorts, 100 lbs., $1.40; 



I Other sizes at proportionate 



prices. Galvanized Barb Wire 2 



and 4 point.per 100 lbs., $2.50; "BB" 



I Galvanized Phone Wire, per 100 



lbs., $2-40; Annealed Wire, per 100 



I lbs., $1.90; Graduated Diamond 



I Mesh Galvanized Fencing, 24 ins. 



M-I r-ir rod, 20c; Galvanized Poultry Netting, per 

 lOOsq. ft., 401'; Indestructible Steel Fence Posts, the 

 best manufactured, each 35c. Everything in the 

 line of Wire and Fencing for all purposes. Now 19 

 the time to buy. These prices are for immediata 

 action. Ask for Free SOO-page Catalog. No. B. A. Tii 

 ouotes lowest prices on staple farm supplies or, 

 every kind; also offers furniture and household 

 Boods from Sheriffs' and KeceiTers' Salei. 

 Chloago H«use Wrecking Co., 35tb * Iran SU., CWs<iBS 



This photograph was taken September '20, 1905. The 

 plant la my new seedling named 



••AUTUMN" 



If was get in the field the first week in .Tune, lfl05 . If you 

 want strawberries from August until November trj- "Pan 

 American" and "Autumn," Fall bearers, sure. Plants 

 for sale by S:niiuel Cooper, Delevan, N. Y. Cir- 

 culars Free. 



records of their fruiting power, tlie type 

 of foliage, and their leaf spot or fungi re- 

 sisting qualities. And the mother plant 

 that shows the most points of excellence 

 is the one the selection should be contin- 

 ued from, following the same course as 

 before outlined with the twelve progeny 

 which had been transferred to Plot No. 2. 

 I have given only the starting point of 

 this most interesting part of strawberry 

 growing, and like any other work along the 

 line of improvement there is no end to it. 

 Yet the principles here laid down are to be 

 carried on progressively, with perfect con- 

 fidence that by this method the results de- 

 sired are to be achieved. 



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THE Wisconsin State Horticultural So- 

 ciety will hold its annual convention 

 at Madison February 5, 6 and 7, and a 

 glance at the program reveals an extraor- 

 dinarily strong and interesting layout of 

 subject-matter. In the small-fruit session 

 M. S. Kellogg will give a "Strawberry 

 Review for 1905-06," in which will be 

 discussed Plant Injury in 1905-06 and 

 Cause, the 1906 Crop and Prices, and 

 Most Profitable Varieties. This will be 

 followed by ten-minute discussions by a 

 half-dozen members, and the whole will 

 without doubt be a clear and comprehen- 

 sive statement of a situation full of interest 

 and meaning to strawberry folk. The 

 Wisconsin meeting has for years ranked 

 among the most valuable and profitable 

 in the country, and the 1907 convention 

 promises to be no exception to the rule. 

 Secretary Frederic Cranefield, Madison, 

 will furnish all needful information to in- 

 quirers. 



Marketing the Strawberry Crop 

 By A. D. Stevens 



A FEW years ago we were not satis- 

 fied to ship our berries without 

 some way to protect them in the 

 market, so we had a private label printed 

 which was a guarantee that they were of 

 iiigh flavor, fully ripened and honestly 

 packed, and in a few days the grocers that 

 were handling our berries would call at 

 the commission house in the afternoon 

 asking the merchant to set a certain num- 

 '■>er of S. B. Stevens & Son's berries asidt' 

 for them the next morning — the crates 

 that had the label on them. The conse- 

 quence was that the merchant would put 

 .1 few cents per quart above the average 

 market price and they would say nothing 

 because they could sell them with a guar- 

 antee and found ready sale for them at a 

 large price. We have received from $6 to 

 $6.75 for a thirty-two quart crate, and we 

 always are careful to omit the label from 

 any berries that will not bear the test. 



It was not many years before the other 

 growers in this section "got on to it" and 

 now nearly all of the best growers have 



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Hardiness means most to Northeni fruit growers. 

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WAUKEE. IOWA 



ANDREW REESH 



MANUFACTURER OF BERRY 

 BASKETS AND BERRY CRATES 



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