THE STRAWBERRY MARCH 1907 



Get something 

 reliable wlien 

 you buy. 



DEMING 



Barrel. Bucket, Knapsack, Hand 

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For trees, shrubs and vines. Model 



appliances for poultrymen for 



vhiie washing. disinfecting, etc. 



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General j4g-en(ies in 

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your fruit with a g:ood spray 

 ump means dollars to you. 

 he Eclipse earns bigjprouts 

 d lasts for years. We in- 

 vented the 



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after esperimenting for 

 years in our own orcnards 

 withthecommon sprayers. 

 We have it illustrated in 

 our JO-page catalog— send 

 for it to-day— it's nrimful 

 of useful and interesting 

 reading for the gardener 

 and fruitman. 

 MORRin. & MORLET 

 Benton Harbor, Mich. 



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the trees in the neighborhood, charging 

 according to the time spent and material 

 used. The same outfit could be used to 

 spray all kinds of fruits, and also potatoes, 

 and for spraying chicken houses and other 

 buildings. 



Princeton, III. 



TV^HY do the New York and Michigan 

 " apples no longer hold their former 

 proud place in the market.? The question 

 finds answer in the following paragraph 

 that recently appeared in the Lincoln, 

 (Neb.) Journal: "Comparatively a few 

 years ago the supply of foreign apples 

 came from New York and Michigan. 

 Purely Western apples were not compet- 

 itors. But conditions have changed and 

 the excellent apples of Colorado have 

 made that state a dangerous competitor to 

 those shipped from Michigan and New 

 York. A grocer is authority for the state- 

 ment that not more than 50 per cent of 

 the Eastern stock is sold now. Colorado 

 produces a Jonathan apple that is a prime 

 favorite and brings about the highest figure 

 here. The success of the Colorado Jon- 



athan, he thinks, ought to be a lesson to 

 the Nebraska fruit grower, who fails to 

 hold his own because he neglects to spray 

 his trees and hand-pick the fruit. Because 

 he does not do this the fruit rots and is in 

 its grave before it has had an opportunity 

 to get into the race. Colorado Jonathans 

 bring 70 cents a peck right now, and 

 home-grown apples are down and out." 



Just Beginning to Spray in a Great 

 Fruit District 



ONE of the most extensive fruit- 

 growing counties of Michigan is 

 Kent, of which Grand Rapids is 

 the county seat. Yet we find in a recent 

 issue of the Fruit Belt, published in the 

 city named, the statement that "O. W. 

 Braman, who owns a forty-acre fruit farm a 

 few miles north of Grand Rapids, claims 

 the distinction of being the first grower in 

 Kent county to secure a complete power 

 spraying outfit. The outfit consists of a 

 two and a half horse-power gasoline engine 

 and a 200-gallon tank mounted on steel 

 trucks. Mr. Braman is very much pleased 

 with his purchase." 



It seems all but incredible that this is 

 true, yet we may not doubt it, coming as 

 it does from so reliable a local authority. 

 We haven't the figures before us to show 

 how vast is the business done by Kent 

 county, but it reaches up into the hundreds 

 of thousands annually. It would be inter- 

 esting to know just how much the loss has 

 been from failure to spray, but it is within 

 modest estimate to say that it would equal 

 the total sum received from several annual 

 crops, while the future losses from past 



negligence — from allowing fungous disease 

 and insect pests to multiply and increase — 

 is beyond estimate. 



We sincerely hope that Mr. Braman's 

 example will be followed by hundreds of 

 his neighbors and that spraying— thorough, 

 effective spraying— is to become as general 

 in future as its neglect has been in the past. 



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TEXAS is regaling herself just now in 

 true summer-time fashion. A dis- 

 patch from Galveston dated January 11 

 says: "Strawberries, large, red and lus- 

 cious, at $2.50 to $3 per crate of twenty- 

 four quarts, and going begging at that, 

 is a condition not often prevailing in mid- 

 winter e\en in the delightful coast country 

 climate of Texas. However, many things 

 happen in Texas which never occur in any 

 other state, and the Texas coast country 

 springs as many surprises as any other sec- 

 tion. Beginning early in Decemberstraw- 

 berries began to arrive on the local mar- 

 ket, and since that time the consignments 

 have increased to such a volume that local 

 merchants have had to refuse to accept 

 the fruit until stocks were reduced. From 

 $6 per crate the price has dropped until 

 yesterday they went begging at $2.50, one 

 merchant stating that a few more days of 

 warm weather would see strawberries sell- 

 ing at the midsummer price of $1.50." 

 Other reports from the Texas coast coun- 

 try say that berry plants and fruit trees are 

 putting on regular summer foliage, and 

 that unless the warm weather holds out 

 the balance of the winter, the spring and 

 summer crops will be greatly delayed. 

 Also that a freeze would do an immense 

 amount of damage to orchards and fields. 



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